New tool steers AI models to create materials with exotic quantum properties

The artificial intelligence models that turn text into images are also useful for generating new materials. Over the last few years, generative materials models from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta have drawn on their training data to help researchers design tens of millions of new materials.

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Proposed framework describes physics from perspective of quantum reference frames

In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna present a new framework for describing physics relative to quantum reference frames, unveiling the importance of previously unrecognized “extra particles.”

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Time crystals arise from quantum interactions once thought to prevent their formation

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth’s movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results from the oscillation of its pendulum. These phenomena can be understood with very simple equations. However, regular rhythms can also arise in a completely different way—by themselves, without an external clock, through the complex interaction […]

The incredible similarity between the Coricancha Temple in Peru, and the Valley Temple of Egypt

The Coricancha (in Quechua: Quri Kancha, ‘golden temple’) is a political, and religious Inca temple of the geographic center of the city of Cuzco, in Peru.

The word Coricancha (also written as Qorikancha) is formed by the union of two Quechua words: “Kori / Cori” which means gold and kancha / court, temple or […]

Video: ‘Incessant honking’ leads Alaska cops to two bears locked inside car

The footage shared by the Ketchikan Police Department shows the bears in the front seat of the car with the video captioned, “Don’t be suspicious. Don’t be suspicious.”

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Timeline: Internal report details investigation failures throughout year leading up to Fla. triple murder

Eight deputies and detectives have been fired and 11 more have been suspended following the death of Mary Gingles, her father and a neighbor

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Video: Ky. officials crush Hellcat seized during street race

Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officials stated the 2021 Durango Hellcat couldn’t be used on their fleet or sold because it contained stolen parts, including the engine

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BWC: Murder suspect shoots cruisers during pursuit, points gun at Ind. cop before fatal OIS

An Indianapolis officer returned fire from inside a cruiser after the 76-year-old suspect shot at them during the pursuit, damaging multiple patrol vehicles

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NASA selects Blue Origin to take the once-canceled VIPER rover to the moon

An expensive lunar rover that once had its moon trip canceled has a ride once again.

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Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information about how these space rocks disintegrate.

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Researchers detect first ‘heartbeat’ of a newborn neutron star in distant cosmic explosion

A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, revealed millisecond pulsations hidden within a powerful cosmic explosion known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB).

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Observations explore a rare type Iax supernova

An international team of astronomers has conducted detailed multicolor photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2022xlp—a type Iax supernova. Results of the observational campaign, published September 9 on the arXiv pre-print server, could shed more light on the nature of this rare subclass of supernovae.

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SpaceX sunrise launch the 80th on Space Coast

SpaceX’s sunrise launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday was the 80th launch of the year on the Space Coast, which is on track to break the annual record and surpass 100 for the year.

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Rare-earth tritellurides reveal a hidden ferroaxial order of electronic origin

The discovery of “hidden orders,” organization patterns in materials that cannot be detected using conventional measurement tools, can yield valuable insight, which can in turn support the design of new materials with advantageous properties and characteristics. The hidden orders that condensed matter physicists hope to uncover lie within so-called charge density waves (CDWs).

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Life’s building blocks may not be stable—just really, really long-lived

Although the building blocks of life such as hydrogen and oxygen appear stable to us, many theories of physics predict that they are actually just tremendously long-lived, with the particles found in their nuclei slowly, but ultimately decaying.

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