Stretching Diamonds Unlocks Powerful New Quantum Sensing Abilities
Computational modeling reveals how stretching and squeezing a diamond’s crystal lattice precisely tunes the dynamic quantum states of…
New shield material thinner than a strand of hair, but blocks both cosmic electromagnetic waves and radiation
A 3D-printed, ultra-thin, lightweight, high-performance shielding material comprised of two nanotubes has proven effective as a shield against…
Field-resolved observation of exciton coherence in a van der Waals magnet
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Fibrillar adhesion dynamics govern the timescales of nuclear mechano-response via the vimentin cytoskeleton
Cell culture, transfections and drug treatments Human TIFFs (a kind gift from J.I.) were cultured in high-glucose Dulbecco’s…
A quantum-coherent photon–emitter interface in the original telecom band
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These Tiny Robots 50x Smaller Than a Hair Can Hunt and Move Bacteria
Artistic view of a nanorobot (center and inset) interacting with several bacteria of two distinct types. The dashed…
Transport of polaritons in hyperbolic media
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Printable Artificial Neurons That “Talk” to Living Brain Cells
Summary: Engineers have achieved a major breakthrough in bio-electronics: printing artificial neurons that can communicate directly with the…
Self-reconfigurable polarization perception in dual-anisotropy heterostructures for high-dimensional in-sensor computing
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Orbital-hybridization-induced Ising-type superconductivity in a confined gallium layer
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All-van der Waals microcavities for low-loss nonlinear photonics
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Scientists achieve 99.9% accurate quantum gates across 17,000 qubits
Scientists in Switzerland have come closer to building stable quantum computers after developing a swap gate made of…