Photon ‘time bins’ and signal stability show promise for practical quantum communication via fiber optics
Developed at Leibniz IPHT in Jena and INRS in Canada: The photonic chip uses time-bin encoding to transmit…
High-velocity molecular clouds in M83 provide new insight into how galaxies evolve
An illustration of high-velocity clouds composed of molecular gas inflowing from outside the galaxy. Credit: Created with ChatGPT/DALL·E…
Multimodal method combines imaging and sequencing to study gene function in intact tissue
Whitehead Institute and Harvard researchers developed Perturb-Multimodal (Perturb-Multi), a powerful new approach that simultaneously measures how genetic changes,…
Radio observations shed more light on the properties of Pandora’s Cluster
VLA 6 GHz image of Abell 2744. The shaded regions indicate the area covered by the DUALZ Survey…
Invertebrate model sheds light on biological basis of anxiety
A Water snail resembling the organism examined by the researchers. Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_snail_Rex_2.jpg Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state…
New superheavy isotope reveals complex relationship between quantum effects and fission
Electronic configuration of seaborgium (Sg). Credit: Ahazard.sciencewriter/Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:106_seaborgium_(Sg)_enhanced_Bohr_model.png. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists…
Discovery in quantum materials could make electronics 1,000 times faster
Alberto De la Torre used controlled heating and cooling to make a quantum material switch between a conductive…
Astronomer models radio pulsar nulling fractions
Histogram showing the best-fit normalized distribution of the nulling fractions based on simulation of 5000 sample pulsars. Credit:…
Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the moon?
The NEOMIR orbiting observatory will act as an early warning system to detect and monitor any asteroid coming…
If we can’t detect the first stars, maybe we can see their first galaxies
Artist’s conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way showing Baade’s general population categories. The blue regions…