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Aug 8, 2024

Electron Dynamics Redefined Through Super-Bloch Oscillations

Posted by in categories: physics, transportation

Researchers achieve advances in periodic oscillations and transportation for optical pulses, with potential for next-gen optical communications and signal processing.

Researchers have achieved significant advances in wave physics by conducting experiments on Super-Bloch Oscillations (SBOs), which demonstrate the potential for manipulating optical pulses. By applying both DC and nearly detuned AC electric fields, they not only observed SBO collapse for the first time but also extended these oscillations to arbitrary wave driving situations, paving the way for innovative optical communication technologies.

Wave Physics and Super-Bloch Oscillations.

Aug 8, 2024

Quantum Computing’s Holy Grail: Realizing Topologically Protected Qubits

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A team of physicists has successfully created superconducting properties in materials known for conducting electricity only at their edges, marking a potential leap forward in quantum computing technology.

This achievement, which has eluded researchers for over a decade, was made possible through meticulous control of the experimental conditions.

Quantum Breakthroughs

Aug 8, 2024

Revolutionary GPS Method Reveals Earth’s Crust Movements Post-Earthquake

Posted by in categories: evolution, innovation

A groundbreaking study using sub-daily GPS has improved our understanding of early afterslip following earthquakes, offering a more accurate assessment of seismic hazards and enhancing emergency response and preparedness strategies.

A groundbreaking study has revealed new insights into the Earth’s crust’s immediate behavior following earthquakes. Researchers have utilized sub-daily Global Positioning System (GPS) solutions to accurately measure the spatial and temporal evolution of early afterslip following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake. This innovative approach marks a significant advancement in seismic analysis, offering a more precise and rapid depiction of ground deformations, which is essential for assessing seismic hazards and understanding fault line activities.

The aftermath of an earthquake is marked by intricate postseismic adjustments, particularly the elusive early afterslip. Daily seismic monitoring has struggled to capture the rapid and complex ground movements occurring in the critical hours post-quake. The intricacies of these initial activities and their profound implications for seismic hazard assessment highlight an urgent need for more refined and immediate monitoring techniques.

Aug 8, 2024

Dark matter detector may have accidentally spotted the first detection of dark energy

Posted by in category: cosmology

The experiment may have detected the first direct detection of dark energy, the enigmatic factor that is speeding the expansion of the universe.


An experiment detected a strange signal that might point to dark energy instead of dark matter.

Aug 8, 2024

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

Posted by in categories: climatology, computing, information science, quantum physics, sustainability

“The moment when we wrote down the terms of this equation and saw that it all clicked together, it felt pretty incredible,” Wordsworth said. “It’s a result that finally shows us how directly the quantum mechanics links to the bigger picture.”

In some ways, he said, the calculation helps us understand climate change better than any computer model. “It just seems to be a fundamentally important thing to be able to say in a field that we can show from basic principles where everything comes from.”

Aug 8, 2024

Engineered brain parasite ferries useful proteins into neurons

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Microbe found in cat poo could be harnessed to deliver large, complex proteins across the blood–brain barrier.

Aug 8, 2024

Heart attack doctor asks, is death now reversible?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

As a medical scientist, he looks at how new findings will help develop new treatments to revive people now considered hopeless and restore brain damage.

Aug 7, 2024

‘Wonder material’ found in lunar samples hints at moon’s origins

Posted by in categories: chemistry, space

This finding may reinvent the understanding of chemical components, geography episodes and the history ofthe moon.

Aug 7, 2024

0.2-micron: US makes world’s highest-performance superconducting wire

Posted by in category: materials

A combination of manufacturing techniques led to thin HTS film that delivered highest electric density and pinning forces for superconductor wire.

Aug 7, 2024

Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution

Posted by in category: computing

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has designed a new type of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment that could significantly reduce the cost to produce 7nm and smaller semiconductors, and thus revolutionize the chip manufacturing supply chain.

According to reports, the EUV equipment’s optical system is greatly simplified while power consumption is reduced by a factor of ten, raising the prospect of much cheaper advanced chip-making machines.

If so, it could mark the end of ASML’s monopoly on EUV lithography, which would have serious implications for semiconductor manufacturers, investors and governments.

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