US develops method to spot illegal nuclear material origins in 30 mins
A new method developed by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) can spot the origins of…
U of A-led satellite mission to explore how space radiation affects Earth’s climate
A national research team led by University of Alberta space physicist Ian Mann is developing a Canadian satellite…
Understanding emergence in complex systems using abductive AI
These authors contributed equally: Jingtao Ding, Yu Zheng, Fengli Xu. Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center…
Static electricity can remove frost from windows using little energy
Aeroplanes are usually defrosted by spraying them with antifreeze Jaromir Chalabala / Alamy Static electricity can remove up…
Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics
Alpher, R. A., Bethe, H. & Gamow, G. The origin of chemical elements. Phys. Rev. 73, 803–804 (1948).…
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…
How wars ravage the environment—and what international law is doing about it
Credit: Алесь Усцінаў from Pexels People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly…
Fumfer Physics 20: Time, Black Holes, and 3D Space
Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner examine Information Cosmology (IC) as an alternative lens on gravity, time, and…
Universal quantum gate set for Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill logical qubits
GKP code Here we give some background on GKP codes, highlighting some of the more salient features in…
70 years of data reveal adaptation measures slash European flood losses and fatalities
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Humans adapt to floods through private measures, early warning systems, emergency preparedness and other…
Scientists measure quantum distance in a solid for the first time ever
For decades, physicists have talked about quantum distance, a way of measuring how similar or different two quantum…
China deploys breakthrough super steel to build nuclear fusion plant
Nuclear fusion reactors rely on powerful superconducting magnets that must function under intense magnetic fields and at temperatures…