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Cooling and entangling ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Scalable, coherent many-body systems can enable the realization of previously unexplored quantum phases and have the potential to exponentially speed up information processing. Thermal fluctuations are negligible and quantum effects...
Exceptional plasticity in the bulk single-crystalline van der Waals semiconductor InSe
Inorganic semiconductors are vital for a number of critical applications but are almost universally brittle. Here, we report the superplastic deformability of indium selenide (InSe). Bulk single-crystalline InSe can be...
Boosted molecular mobility during common chemical reactions
Mobility of reactants and nearby solvent is more rapid than Brownian diffusion during several common chemical reactions when the energy release rate exceeds a threshold. Screening a family of 15...
Watch: Evan Rachel Wood plays con artist in 'Kajillionaire' trailer
"Kajillionaire," Miranda July's new film starring Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger, will open in theaters in September.
Challenging a central tenet of chemistry
Steve Granick, Director of the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter and Dr. Huan Wang, Senior Research Fellow, report together with 5 interdisciplinary colleagues in the July 31 issue...
Team simultaneously synthesizes dicarboxylic acids and hydrogen from diols
Every year, the chemical industry makes trillions of dollars synthesizing the countless chemical compounds we use every day.
Magnetic gold nanohybrid will help fight cancer
A team of NUST MISIS scientists, together with colleagues from Russia and Germany, have presented a detailed study of magnetite-gold nanohybrids. In the future, such nanoparticles can help in theranostics—the...
Healing an Achilles' heel of quantum entanglement
Researchers have solved a 20-year-old problem in quantum information theory on how to calculate entanglement cost -- a way to measure entanglement -- in a manner that's efficiently computable, useful,...
Faster LEDs for wireless communications from invisible light
Researchers have solved a major problem for optical wireless communications—the process by which light carries information between cell phones and other devices. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) pulse their light in a...
Researchers synthesize nanoparticles tailored for special applications
Whether in innovative high-tech materials, more powerful computer chips, pharmaceuticals or in the field of renewable energies, nanoparticles form the basis for a whole range of new technological developments. Due...
NFL players: Jackson better QB than Seahawks' Wilson, Chiefs' Mahomes
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson earned the No. 1 spot on the Top 100 Players of 2020, an annual list prepared from NFL player voting.
'Fool's gold' may be valuable after all
In a breakthrough new study, scientists and engineers have electrically transformed the abundant and low-cost non-magnetic material iron sulfide, also known as 'fool's gold' or pyrite, into a magnetic material.
Epitaxial antiperovskite/perovskite heterostructures for materials design
Engineered heterostructures or layered materials made with complex oxide materials are a rich source of emergent technical phenomena and applications. Materials scientists aim to develop new materials functionalities by interfacing...
Two more polymorphs found for red-orange-yellow
A trio of researchers at Université de Montréal has discovered two more polymorphs for ROY, bringing the total to 10. In their paper published in Journal of the American Chemical...
Incorporating ferromagnetism and superconductivity in a single layer of molecular superlattice
NUS scientists have demonstrated an interlayer-space-confined chemical design (ICCD) method for the synthesis of single-atom doped tantalum disulfide (TaS2) molecular superlattice, where ferromagnetism was successfully introduced in the superconducting TaS2...
Paradigm-shifting theory highlights the importance of substrate flexibility in enzymatic reactions
Leiden chemists have proposed a new model for enzymatic reactions in which the flexibility of the substrate is much more important than previously thought. Their results are paradigm-shifting and could...
Physicists discover mechanism for the formation of blood platelets
Blood platelets, also called thrombocytes, are all-important cells with a diameter of between only 0.0015 and 0.003 millimeters. They have the task of resealing injuries to the blood vessels as...
Long-standing tension in the Standard Model addressed
The best-known particle in the lepton family is the electron, a key building block of matter and central to our understanding of electricity. But the electron is not an only...
ISOLDE reveals fundamental property of astatine, the rarest element on Earth
A team of researchers using the ISOLDE nuclear-physics facility at CERN has measured for the first time the so-called electron affinity of the chemical element astatine, the rarest naturally occurring...
Lily James, Andrew Scott to star in BBC's 'Pursuit of Love'
Filming has begun in England on writer-director Emily Mortimer's adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel "The Pursuit of Love," the BBC announced.
Team proposes new integrated power-exhaust control solution for fusion reactor steady-state operation
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) team has proposed a new integrated control solution to tackle key problems in divertor power exhaust for the steady state operation of tokamak fusion...
Unusual electron sharing found in cool crystal
A team of scientists led by Nagoya University in Japan has detected a highly unusual atomic configuration in a tungsten-based material. Until now, the atomic configuration had only been seen...
Quantum machines learn 'quantum data'
Skoltech scientists have shown that quantum enhanced machine learning can be used on quantum (as opposed to classical) data, overcoming a significant slowdown common to these applications and opening a...
Machine learning model may perfect 3-D nanoprinting
Two-photon lithography (TPL)—a widely used 3-D nanoprinting technique that uses laser light to create 3-D objects—has shown promise in research applications but has yet to achieve widespread industry acceptance due...
Researchers enhance electron spin longevity
The electron is an elementary particle, a building block on which other systems evolve. With specific properties such as spin, or angular momentum, that can be manipulated to carry information,...
Home field advantage may be more about comfort than cheering fans
The pandemic offers the opportunity to weigh home field advantage, as sports returns in empty stadiums.
'Fool's gold' may be valuable after all
In a breakthrough new study, scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota have electrically transformed the abundant and low-cost non-magnetic material iron sulfide, also known as "fool's gold" or...
Nondestructive positron beams probe damage, support safety advances in radiation environments
A multi-institution team has used positron beams to probe the nature of radiation effects, providing new insight into how damage is produced in iron films. This exploration can improve the...