2.75-million-year-old stone tools may mark a turning point in human evolution
Map of Turkana Basin with the Namorotukunan Archaeological Site and timeline of currently known events in the Plio-Pleistocene.…
Dear D-Wave Quantum Fans, Mark Your Calendars for November 6
D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) is a global leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services. As the first commercial…
CERN’s electrostatic trap ‘recycles’ anions to illuminate the heaviest elements
Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In…
Astronomers may have found the first stars that formed after the Big Bang
Credit: Neale LaSalle from Pexels For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of…
Light can reshape atom-thin semiconductors for next-generation optical devices
A team of Rice University researchers and collaborators showed that a two-layer Janus TMD material—molybdenum sulfur selenide stacked…
A Colossal Wave Is Rippling Through The Milky Way, Gaia Data Reveals : ScienceAlert
The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a…
Plasma lens for focusing attosecond pulses
Bor, Z. Distortion of femtosecond laser pulses in lenses and lens systems. J. Mod. Opt. 35, 1907–1918 (1988).…
Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
The Early Universe Let Black Holes Break The Rules, Briefly : ScienceAlert
At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole…
Amplitude and phase control in SIW structures by tuning multilayered graphene
The topology of the GHMSIW attenuator is shown in Fig. 1. The attenuator is simulated by the finite element…
Photoinduced non-reciprocal magnetism effectively violates Newton’s third law
A non-reciprocal phase transition to a many-body, time-dependent chiral phase occurs in layered ferromagnets. Credit: Institute of Science…
The Early Universe Helps Black Holes Grow Big, But Not In The Long Run
At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole…