Measurement of magnetic Moment of the electron: (a) Cryogenic system supports a 50 mK electron trap upon a 4.2 K solenoid to provide a very stable B. (b) Silver electrodes of a cylindrical Penning trap. (c) Quantum spin and cyclotron energy levels were used for measurement. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.071801Physicists from Havard University and Northwestern college have worked out...
A new metric called Time to Edit (TTE) has been developed by a translation firm to measure the time it takes for expert human editors to correct AI-generated translations in comparison to human translations. This metric could help us determine how close we are to reaching technological singularity, potentially even before the end of...
Artist impression of Quaoar's rings. Credit: Paris ObservatoryA group of researchers has discovered a previously unknown ring system around a dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the solar system. This ring system is unique in that it orbits much farther out than other known ring systems, which challenges current theories about the...
Rescuers search the rubble in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on the border with Türkiye, 6 February 2022. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images)A huge quake has happened in the southeast of Türkiye, close to the border with Syria.Data from seismometers that gauge the trembling of the ground triggered by...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainMore than 10% of older adults create somatic (non-inherited) mutations in blood stem cells that could trigger explosive, clonal expansions of abnormal cells, enhancing the risk for blood cancer and heart disease.Multiple DNA sequencing techniques have been utilized to determine what is called "clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential," or CHIP. Still,...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainA team of scientists from the University of Cambridge, along with researchers from the United States, Israel, and Austria, have developed a theory that could generate high-energy "quantum light" to study new properties of matter at the atomic level.They have reported their findings in the journal Nature Physics. While classic...
Credit: Awareness Act.Last year, astronomers discovered Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF, which had not been visible until then due to its distance from Earth. However, it is now approaching Earth, and soon it will be making its closest approach in 50,000 years. Astronomers have stated that this will be the only chance to see it...
A complex of Maya pyramids in Guatemala as seen via lidar. Credit: "LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: an introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization," by Richard D. Hansen et al., in Ancient Mesoamerica, Published online by Cambridge University Press December 5, 2022Geologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a...
Two interacting galaxies viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage TeamA research study led by the College of Southampton has shown how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds that reach them by traveling hundreds of thousands of light yrs from one galaxy to another.A worldwide team of scientists has...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA group of scientists at the College of St Andrews, in the United Kingdom, collaborating with a colleague from the College of Portsmouth, also in the United Kingdom, has performed tests in young kids and chimpanzees to learn more regarding when attention changing develops in human beings. In their paper released...
