Memory matters for quantum atomic motion on metals
Credit: AI-generated image In a variety of technological applications related to chemical energy generation and storage, atoms and…
Nonreciprocal light speed control achieved using cavity magnonics device
Photons in a dielectric resonator (yellow) interact with magnons in a YIG sphere (violet) via a microstrip (gray).…
New nanoparticle-based genetic delivery system targets lungs to treat cancer, cystic fibrosis
Scientists have made a key breakthrough for treating respiratory diseases by developing a new drug delivery system that…
Fermenting legume pulses increases antioxidant and antidiabetic properties, study finds
Food science professor Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, right, and graduate student Andrea Jimena Valdés-Alvarado found the optimal fermentation…
Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they’re not so sure
For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest…
Reality vs. imagination; rhinos vs. poachers; mathematics vs. the Big Bang
Horned white rhino, undisclosed South African reserve. Credit: Tim Kuiper This week, Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete…
New measurement of the mass of the Z boson from the Large Hadron Collider
The LHCb detector in 2018. Credit: CERN The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at…
We tracked 13,000 giants of the ocean over 30 years, to uncover their hidden highways
Ana Sequeira swimming with a whale shark in Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, to collect samples. Credit: Australian Institute…
Antarctic atmospheric rivers, supercharged by climate change, expected to double by 2100
Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, . Credit: Michelle Maclennan, BAS Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such…
Probing hyperon potential to resolve a longstanding puzzle in neutron stars
Left: Hyperon elliptic flow versus transverse momentum in hypernucleus-nucleus collisions. Right: Rapidity distributions of light hypertriton production in carbon-carbon…