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A bit of information can be encoded in the position of a particle (left or right). A demon can erase a classical bit (blue) by…
In a very unusual way, the electrical and magnetic properties of a particular crystal are linked together — the phenomenon was discovered and explained at…
Four kinematic elements form the foundation for a quantitative solution to a long-standing paradox of why a spiraling football’s nose follows the ball’s trajectory. Credit:…
A laser optical pulse (blue) enters from the left into the hollow-core fiber filled with nitrogen gas (red molecules) and, along propagation, experiences a spectral…
New research from Chalmers and ETH Zürich, Switzerland, suggests a promising way to detect elusive dark matter particles through previously unexplored atomic responses occurring in…
Quantum mechanics allows for a clock to move as if it were simultaneously traveling at two different speeds. New research finds that this leads to…
Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya next to the vapor deposition chamber that is used to produce diamonds in the lab. Credit: Wits University The discovery of triplet…
Researchers developed a new multifocus technique that uses a z-splitter prism (right) to split detected light in a standard microscope. This simultaneously produces several images,…
Image of microtubules in a fixed cell sample. A 3 microns x 3 microns confocal scan of microtubules in a fixed 3T3 cell labelled with…
Scientists have re-investigated a sixty-year-old idea by the American physicist P.W. Anderson and provided new insights into the quantum world. Quantum physics explains how the…
A recent study from the University of Melbourne proposes a new theory for the origin of dark matter, helping experimentalists in Australia and abroad in…
Top view of the framed knots generated in this work. Credit: University of Ottawa In a world first, researchers from the University of Ottawa in…
Professor of physics Andrew Jordan and his colleagues will use superconducting circuits to design experiments that can be carried out within a realistic quantum system,…
Credit: NIST Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues…
Andrea Ghez. Credit: Christopher Dibble/UCLA Andrea Ghez (Caltech MS ’89, PhD ’92), the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA,…
An international team of scientists has managed for the first time to observe the ‘nutation’ of spins in magnetic materials (the oscillations of their axis…
The photon (yellow, coming from the left) produces electron waves out of the electron cloud (grey) of the hydrogen molecule (red: nucleus), which interfere with…
An illustration of the crystal structure of ruthenium trichloride showing the simple honeycomb lattice of ruthenium ions and chlorine ions. The twisted octahedra formed by…
The goal of new research led by Ranga Dias, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of physics and astronomy, is to develop superconducting materials at…