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The Borel plane of Bϕ. Credit: SciPost Physics (2024). DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.4.103 In the quantum world, processes can be separated into two distinct classes. One class, that of the so-called “perturbative” phenomena, is relatively easy to detect, both in an experiment and in a mathematical computation. Examples are plentiful: the light that atoms emit, the energy … Read more

A haunting sight at the archaeological site. The face of a statue of the god Dionysus as it’s painstakingly chipped away from and brushed free of millennia of built-up deposits. Credit: 2024 Institute for Advanced Global Studies CC-BY-ND A group of archaeologists, led by researchers from the University of Tokyo, announce the discovery of a … Read more

This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data in November 2023. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. In mid-April 2024, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared success after receiving good … Read more

UC Professor David Lentz holds up a sculpture that bears reproductions of ancient Maya glyphs. Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand For sports fans, places like Fenway Park, Wembley Stadium or Wimbledon’s Centre Court are practically hallowed ground. Archaeologists at the University of Cincinnati found evidence of similar reverence at ballcourts built by the ancient … Read more

Part of an interdisciplinary University of Chicago team behind a new method of using static data from single-cell RNA sequencing to study how cells and genes change over time. From left, Biophysics graduate student Hanna Hieromnimon, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering graduate student Joey Federico, Computer Science graduate student Ryan Robinett, PME Asst. Prof. Samantha … Read more

Credit: Nicky Bay, provided, used with permission A groundbreaking study, led by Dr. Mark Wong of The University of Western Australia, has provided the first global picture of insect activity patterns across the fundamental day–night cycle. “Through our extensive research, we’ve finally been able to provide a definitive answer to the age-old question of whether … Read more

Sky location of the surveyed area of about four square degrees. Left: full-sky map of the dust emission Middle: a zoom-in of the map toward the surveyed regions, which includes part of the North Celestial Pole Loop on the East of the map. Right: a closer view of the surveyed region. Black segments indicate the … Read more

Example migrant destination distributions for two municipios. These maps show the distributions of US destinations for migrants from two different municipios located in the state of Guanajuato: Dolores Hidalgo and Jaral del Progreso. Dolores Hidalgo tends to send migrants to US destinations that experienced relatively mild labor demand declines, while Jaral del Progreso tends to … Read more

This image provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in April 2024 shows bioluminescence in the sea whip coral Funiculina sp. observed under red light in a laboratory. Most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean and they might have been doing it longer than thought. In a study … Read more