“It’s Its Own New Thing” – Scientists Discover New State of Quantum Matter
UC Irvine physicists have discovered a new phase of quantum matter with unusual electron-hole pairings. The material’s resilience…
CERN Deploys Cutting-Edge AI in “Impossible” Hunt for Higgs Decay
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS…
New theory: could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
How NASA made exoplanets into tourist destinations
“Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas…
Rare oceanic plate delamination may explain Portugal’s mysterious earthquakes
A delaminating block could reproduce the structure observed in the tomography model. The serpentinized layer decouples the crustal…
Habitable planet potential increases in the outer galaxy
Longstanding model of the galactic habitable zone, which is estimated to exist between 7-9 kiloparsecs from the center…
Radio emission observations reveal delayed outflow from a tidal disruption event
Radio light curves of WTP 14adeqka in selected frequencies from archival and targeted VLA observations (main panel) along…
Quantum entanglement lasts 600 times longer in elusive dark states, study finds
Cavity coupled QDs and detuning. a A schematic of an air-suspended hole-CBG cavity in InAs/GaAs membrane and photon…
Program brings greater understanding to star and galaxy formation
“One of the goals of the Webb telescope is to find the first stars, the first galaxies,” Danilo…
Scientists discover limits to information erasure in viscous fluids
In viscous fluids like honey, where turbulence is absent, true mixing is challenging as it requires an interplay…
Probing stress and magnetism at high pressures with two-dimensional quantum sensors
Doherty, M. W. et al. Electronic properties and metrology applications of the diamond NV-center under pressure. Phys. Rev.…
Graphene reveals electrons that behave like frictionless fluid and break textbook rules
Top Left: 3D atomistic model of the graphene device. Bottom Left: Top view of the actual device, as…