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Hints of a ‘neutrino fog’ could complicate efforts to detect dark matter

As if searching for dark matter isn’t difficult enough already, physicists may have detected another hurdle known as a “neutrino fog” from solar neutrinos streaming through Earth.

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Raise the roof: How to reduce badminton birdie drift

Indoor badminton courts are often used for high-stakes tournaments, but even an enclosed court can affect the path of a birdie.

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Physicists create tiny hurricanes of light that could transport huge amounts of data

Much of modern life depends on the coding of information into means of delivering it. A common method is to encode data in laser light and send it through optic cables. The increasing demand for more information capacity demands that we constantly find better ways of encoding it.

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A new paradigm in high-speed photoacoustic small animal whole-body imaging

A research team has developed an advanced continuous rotational scanning photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) system for rapid imaging of living organisms. The research is published in the journal Laser & Photonics Reviews.

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Scientists demonstrate controlled transfer of atoms using coherent tunneling between optical tweezers

An experimental setup built at the Technion Faculty of Physics demonstrates the transfer of atoms from one place to another through quantum tunneling between optical tweezers. Led by Prof. Yoav Sagi and doctoral student Yanay Florshaim from the Solid State Institute, the research was published in Science Advances.

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Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest recipes in the universe, like the quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter known to have existed shortly after the Big Bang. While the LHC mostly collides protons, once a year it collides heavy ions—such […]

Compact error correction: Toward a more efficient ‘quantum hard drive’

Two quantum information theorists at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have solved a decades-old problem that will require fewer qubits to suppress more errors in quantum hardware.

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Laser spectroscopy study explores nuclear structure of fermium and nobelium isotopes

University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens at the extremes of neutron and proton numbers, in search of where the periodic table of chemical elements ends.

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Theoretical predictions provide a first peek at nuclear shape transitions

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, can predict hitherto unchartered changes in the shape of nuclei.

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Advanced terahertz neural network offers compact solution for AI challenges

An innovative planar spoof plasmonic neural network (SPNN) platform capable of directly detecting and processing terahertz (THz) electromagnetic signals has been unveiled by researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and Southeast University in Nanjing.

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Implementing topologically ordered time crystals on quantum processors

In a new study published in Nature Communications, scientists have implemented the topologically ordered time crystal on a quantum processor for the first time.

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Fluids thicken at the speed of light: A new theory extends Einstein’s relativity to real fluids

The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive and surprising effects, the most famous of which are length contraction and time dilation. If an object travels at a relative speed, which is a non-negligible fraction of the speed of light, with respect to an observer, the length of the object in the travel direction […]

Can unknown physics be seen in interactions between Higgs bosons?

Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, there has been ongoing research there into Higgs bosons and a search for traces of physics beyond the existing model of elementary particles. Scientists working at the ATLAS detector have combined both goals: with the latest analysis it has been possible to expand our knowledge of the […]

Can the noble metals become superconductors?

Superconductivity is the phenomenon by which, at sufficiently low temperatures, electric current can flow in a metal with no resistance. While certain metals are excellent superconductors, other metals cannot superconduct at all.

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Scientists capture images of a new quantum phase in electron molecular crystals

Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that electrons could be coaxed into stillness at low densities and cold temperatures, forming an electron ice that would later be called the Wigner crystal.

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