Researchers cut the time for a learning task from 20 million years to 15 minutes
The squeezer—an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) that uses a nonlinear crystal inside an optical cavity to manipulate the…
Primordial black holes may trigger Type Ia supernovae without companion stars
The density color plot for WD models of various masses. The expected final composition after self-heating nuclear reactions…
Scientists use electrons to pattern light sources and wiring directly onto crystals
Cathodoluminescence hyperspectral mapping of a pattern spelling ‘Lee’ (top left); Hae Yeon Lee and Yifeng Liu (bottom left)…
Space-time doesn’t exist, but it’s a useful framework for understanding our reality
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Whether space-time exists should be neither controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions…
Beauty meson decay confirms tension with Standard Model predictions
The LHCb experiment in its underground cavern. Credit: CERN A new LHCb analysis confirms a previously observed tension…
Physicists nearly double speed of superconducting qubit readout in quantum computers
A dilution refrigerator used to cool a superconducting quantum computer. The quantum circuit is inside the cylindrical metal…
Observations investigate a compact stellar system around nearby galaxy
Amateur image of NGC 7531 (left). DESI Legacy Imaging Survey image of NGC 7531 (right). Sky-subtracted image of…
New tensor network-based approach could advance simulation of quantum many-body systems
A schematic diagram sketching the relations between the categorical structures that describe various aspects of the low-energy properties…
Solving the mystery of whether a Bolivian salt flat is the world’s largest natural mirror
Credit: Nature The largest salt flat in the world is Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, a popular tourist…
Rare-earth tritellurides reveal a hidden ferroaxial order of electronic origin
Artistic image of the ferrorotational density wave. Credits: Brad Baxley. The discovery of “hidden orders,” organization patterns in…