How understanding nothingness might just explain everything
If you’ve ever ready anything about cosmology, you’ll have come across an astonishing statistic: all the matter around…
‘A potential innovative design path’
Photo Credit: DIII-D National Fusion Facility Experiments at San Diego’s DIII-D National Fusion Facility have demonstrated that a…
Uniting the light spectrum on a single microchip
The experimental setup shown here incorporates on-chip optical parametric oscillator (OPO) technology to generate a frequency comb of…
Trilayer moiré superlattices unlock tunable control of exciton configurations
Figure (a) Schematic of the DXs and QXs in the moiré bilayer and trilayer regions. (b) PL spectra…
Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium
Robert Hovden, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, describes how an upgraded cryo-electron microscope works at…
Particles Shot Out of The Sun Reveal Distinct Patterns, Scientists Find : ScienceAlert
Our sun can seem deceptively peaceful from Earth, but only because we have the luxury of living 150…
Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array
Gisin, N., Ribordy, G., Tittel, W. & Zbinden, H. Quantum cryptography. Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 145–195 (2002). Article …
New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure
A schematic image shows a 2D sensor squeezed between two diamond anvils. Credit: Chong Zu The world of…
Ask Ethan: Where does cosmic dust come from?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Gravitational wave cry of baby black hole kicked away from its birth site heard for 1st time
Astronomers have for the first time measured the speed and direction of a newborn black hole, thanks to…
Seeing a trio of entangled photons in one go
Achieving the entanglement measurement of the W state. Credit: KyotoU / Takeuchi lab The concept of quantum entanglement…
A New Neutrino Detector In China Is Coming Online
Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they’re…