Compact laser system shows 80% efficiency for ultrashort light pulses is possible
Multipass optical parametric amplifier with laser beam: The new system demonstrates the development of highly efficient and compact…
A genetic switch lets plants accept nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Barley is one of the crops that seems to respond positively to a genetic fix that enables it…
Gyromorphs combine liquid and crystal traits to enhance light-based computers
Illustration of a 60-fold gyromorph’s properties. Top row: Structure of the gyromorph. Left: Structure factor. Right: Pair correlation…
Peering inside 3D chaotic microcavities with X-ray vision
3D X-ray microtomography reveals the internal geometry of a deformed microsphere, allowing insight into chaotic light dynamics. Credit:…
Invasive rats, not just humans, may be to blame
Rapa Nui palm seed endocarp chewed by a rat. Credit: Sebastian Englert Museum in Hunt and Lipo 2025…
How quantum computers can aid the search for room-temperature superconductors
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the first time, a quantum computer has successfully measured pairing correlations (quantum signals…
Breakthrough could connect quantum computers at 200X the distance
New research from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) Asst. Prof. Tian Zhong could…
Quantum nonlocality may be inherent in the very nature of identical particles
Nonlocality seems to be enchanted into such a fundamental property of our universe as the indistinguishability of quantum…
Nearby pulsar offers insights into emission physics near the death line
Pulse stacks of PSR J2129+4119 observed on September 29, 2024, showing three distinct behaviors: steady drifting (left), intermittent…
A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole…
Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long run
Illustration of a black hole growing at an extremely fast (super-Eddington) rate. Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld At the heart…
Paradox of rotating turbulence finally tamed with ‘hurricane-in-a-lab’
By rehabilitating Taylor-Couette flows with Kolmogorov’s small-scale universality, researchers have created a powerful baseline for the study of…