Quantum 'umbilical cord' links metal and insulator states in many materials, study shows
A kind of umbilical cord between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now ...
The Shape-Shifting Atom That Redefines Nuclear Physics
Scientists have reached a significant milestone in nuclear physics with the direct observation of three distinct deformations ...
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Martin Karplus obituary: theoretical chemist who first simulated proteins using molecular dynamics
The Nobel prizewinner used quantum and molecular mechanics to model the dynamics of complex chemical systems.
Want to Get Sucked Into a Black Hole? Try This Book.
Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...
Redefining the second: Optical atomic clock achieves record accuracy in comparison measurement
The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the ...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"
The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...
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21st-century chainmail uses molecular instead of metallic links
In what they're calling the "highest density of mechanical bonds ever achieved," researchers created a super-strong flexible ...
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String theory may be inevitable as a unified theory of physics, calculations suggest
The research was done by Caltech’s Clifford Cheung and Aaron Hillman along with Grant Remmen at New York University. They ...
Revolutionizing Quantum Science: The Secret of Long-Lasting Molecular Entanglement
Researchers have revolutionized quantum technology by achieving long-lasting entanglement between molecules using ...