Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium
Robert Hovden, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, describes how an upgraded cryo-electron microscope works at…
Models explain mysterious feature controlling magnetic properties of the sun
The sun taken from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, showing the quiet corona and magnetic structures like coronal…
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…
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…
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…
Narrow-linewidth laser on a chip sets new standard for frequency purity
Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady8963 A record-breaking development in laser technology could help support the development of…
Pinning down protons in water—a basic science success story
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The movement of protons through electrically charged water is one of the most fundamental…
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…
Southeast Pacific sediment cores are an 8-million-year-old climate archive of temperature effects on the ocean
Inside the sediment core laboratory of the research vessel JOIDES Resolution, which in 2019 recovered the core in…