Integrating conventional and quantum networks on the same optical fibers will advance quantum network technology. Quantum networking’s key function, quantum teleportation, has not yet been achieved over fibers used for high-power conventional optical data transmission. However, a recent ...

By measuring electrical signals in biological systems, researchers can understand how cells communicate, opening avenues for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders in general, such as arrhythmia and Alzheimer’s. Existing devices for taking electrical signals from living cell cultures and ...

A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has uncovered evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history—it may be 500 years older than other discoveries. The evidence was discovered on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria. The writing dates ...

MIT engineers have discovered that exercise benefits muscles and individual neurons. When muscles contract during exercise, they release biochemical signals called myokines, which stimulate neurons to grow four times farther than those not exposed to these signals. Additionally, neurons ...

Complex equations can be used to investigate many of today’s major scientific issues, from large-scale climate science to nanoscale material modeling. However, the speed, energy consumption, and infrastructure of today’s digital computer systems are approaching their limit when it comes to ...

Understanding the creation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their role in cosmic reionization depends on characterizing the prevalence and features of weak active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early Universe. JWST recently spotted a bunch of tiny red dots in the distant Universe. ...

Using data from the Gemini North telescope in Hawai’i, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. Despite being already predicted, the merging of two black holes has never been observed. This discovery offers insights into the unlikelyness of ...

Researchers have recently discovered a hidden global ocean of liquid water beneath- Saturn’s tiny moon- Mimas’ icy shell. This ocean os believed to be formed just 5 to 15 million years ago. This exclusive discovery adds Mimas to the list of moons with internal oceans, including Enceladus ...

Monitoring body temperature is crucial for detecting fever and understanding its correlation with eating, exercising, and stress. However, achieving this continuous monitoring poses a significant challenge. University of Washington researchers introduced the Thermal Earring, a ...

Using light to excite and control lattice vibrations has proven to be an effective way to alter the behavior of quantum materials when they are not in equilibrium. Expanding this approach beyond interactions among coherent phonons to include nonlinear couplings among other collective modes ...

Electronic correlation effects in quantum materials arise when there is a significant on-site Coulomb repulsion or low electron kinetic energy. These effects are prominent in materials like cuprate superconductors and heavy-fermion systems. Both effects can coexist in certain materials, such as ...

The Milky Way spins like water in a whirlpool because of the matter in its disk. In the 1970s, Vera Rubin noticed galaxies, including ours, have surprisingly flat rotation curves. This means the speed of stars stays the same across the universe instead of slowing down with distance. Rubin suggested ...