Synthetic magnetic fields steer light on a chip for faster communications
A new design method for creating pseudomagnetic fields in silicon photonic crystals enables precise control over the flow…
What 3I/ATLAS tells us about other solar systems
This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera on 21…
New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure
A schematic image shows a 2D sensor squeezed between two diamond anvils. Credit: Chong Zu The world of…
Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres
Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the…
Seeing a trio of entangled photons in one go
Achieving the entanglement measurement of the W state. Credit: KyotoU / Takeuchi lab The concept of quantum entanglement…
Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of excitons
From left, Zhaohan Jiang, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, and Matthias Florian, a research investigator…
Proposed approach could bridge gap between general relativity and quantum mechanics
A circulating fluxon–antifluxon pair in coupled annular Josephson junctions behaves as a detector. The pair decays due to…
Discovery of new moon or ring system orbiting mysterious distant planet Quaoar
Artist’s impression of the icy Kuiper belt object 2002 LM60, dubbed “Quaoar” by its discoverers. Credit: NASA and…
A new view of the proton and its excited states
Model of the CLAS12 detector highlighting the forward detector used for detection of the scattered electron and the…
New work shows fluid in a curved pipe can undergo discontinuous transition
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Turbulence is everywhere, yet much about the nature of turbulence remains unknown. During the…