An artist’s conception of the complex magnetic correlations physicists have observed with a groundbreaking quantum simulator at Kyoto University that uses ytterbium atoms about 3 billion times colder than deep space. Different colors represent the six possible spin states of each atom. The simulator uses up to 300,000 atoms, allowing physicists to directly observe...
Illustration by The Project Twins When Yanina Bellini Saibene has started her career in information science at the National Institute of Agricultural Innovation in La Pampa, Argentina, she was not fluent in English. She had learned a little English at secondary school. However, her family could not afford the added courses she would have required...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new kind of "phase change" in water was first recommended 30 years ago in a research study by scientists from Boston University. Because the shift has been predicted to happen at supercooled problems, however, confirming its presence has been challenging. That is because, at these low temperatures, water really does...
A team of physicists from UNLV's Nevada Extreme Conditions Lab (NEXCL) used a diamond anvil cell, a research device similar to the one pictured, in their research to lower the pressure needed to observe a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity. Credit: courtesy of NEXCL. Less than 2 years after shocking the science world with the discovery...
A Powerful X-ray scanning techniques revealed the 1mm creature in perfect detail. Credit: P Donoghue et al/University of Bristol. Researchers share that they have solved an evolutionary puzzle of a 500 million-year-old microscopic, creature with a mouth yet no anus. When discovered in 2017, it was reported that the small sack-like aquatic creature's fossil might be...
Thousands of mysterious holes have been discovered on the ocean floor not far from the Californian coast. Thousands of secret holes have been found on the seafloor after deep-sea surveys. The Earth's oceans are anything, however, explored. According to reports, humans have managed to explore regarding 5% of the ocean floor. The remaining 95% of the...
Mitochondria are the energy powerhouses in eukaryotic cells. One popular hypothesis claims these organelles were a pre-requisite to the transition from simpler prokaryotes like bacteria and archaea to larger, more complex eukaryotic organisms. The new study challenges this assumption. Credit: Jason Drees In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on...
Graphene. Credit: Christoph Hohmann, MCQST Cluster An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has detected unique quantum effects in high-precision researches of natural double-layer graphene and has interpreted them together with the College of Texas at Dallas utilizing their academic work. This research offers new insights into the interaction of the charge carriers...
According to new research, food production is already one of the biggest stressors to our planet, but it has made substantially more challenging by the interaction of Earth system processes. Earth system procedures refer to the natural activities that maintain the planet in a habitable and also useful state. This includes procedures occurring in the...
Info Dump There is no shortage of debate regarding the nature of the dark matter, a mysterious substance that many physicists believe makes up a large proportion of the total mass of the universe, despite never having observed it directly. Currently, a physicist from the UK called Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark...
