physics

Pictorial illustration of how in the bosonic QSP interferometry (QSPI) protocol, the qubit measurement enacts a duality between a polynomial transformation on the bosonic quadrature operators 𝑥^ and a polynomial transformation on the sensing parameter β via QSPI. Credit: Quantum (2024). DOI: 10.22331/q-2024-07-30-1427 Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology … Read more

Researchers developed a mucus-based bioink for 3D-printed lung tissue. Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Bio Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.4c00579 Lung diseases kill millions of people around the world each year. Treatment options are limited, and animal models for studying these illnesses and experimental medications are inadequate. Now, writing in ACS Applied Bio Materials, researchers describe … Read more

Liriodendron tulipifera wood ultrastructure observed under a cryo-SEM reveals enlarge macrofibril structures. Credit: Jan J Lyczakowski and Raymond Wightman Researchers undertaking an evolutionary survey of the microscopic structure of wood from some of the world’s most iconic trees and shrubs have discovered an entirely new type of wood. This discovery may open new opportunities to … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are “systemic weaknesses” in the way juries make decisions—and these are likely to be contributing to the conviction of innocent people, failures to convict the guilty, and inequalities, new research warns. The current legal rules involving procedure and evidence are not consistently designed, based on robust evidence about how the … Read more

As Parker Solar Probe files around the sun, it finds abrupt reversals in the direction of the sun’s magnetic fields. These S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field are very common in the solar wind close to the sun, but are absent inside the corona. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center By … Read more

A diagram of the Kagome metal cesium vanadium antimonide showing plasmon waves moving through the material. Credit: Guangxin Ni In traditional Japanese basket-weaving, the ancient “Kagome” design seen in many handcrafted creations is characterized by a symmetrical pattern of interlaced triangles with shared corners. In quantum physics, the Kagome name has been borrowed by scientists … Read more

Credit: Anderson Guerra from Pexels Makeup is one of the strategic tools for shaping one’s image. To what extent can its intensity and form vary depending on the occasion and context? When and why can it be used as camouflage? Researchers from SWPS University attempted to answer these questions by investigating how women apply makeup. … Read more

A new disinformation model describes how rumors spread like nuclear fission, careening into individuals who then propagate the rumor in a chain reaction. Credit: Abigail Malate/AIP It has never been easier to spread false or misleading information online. The anonymous, impersonal nature of the internet, combined with advanced tools like artificial intelligence, makes it trivial … Read more

The AMOC’s current speeds in (left) a low-resolution climate model and (right) this paper’s high-resolution model. Credit: Physics Magazine via APS Northern Europe is relatively warm given its place on the globe. For example, although north of most major Canadian cities, London is warmer than all of them (even Vancouver in British Columbia). But this … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It opens the mind and is at the heart of innovation, yet while creativity is recognized as a critical skill for Australia’s economic future, it is typically confined to the arts, skipping other areas of the curriculum. Now, research, published in Creativity Research Journal from the University of South Australia, shows … Read more