The Penrose tiling pattern is a type of quasicrystal, which means that it has an ordered yet never-repeating structure. The pattern, composed of two shapes, is a 2D projection of a 5D square lattice. Credit: None By shining a laser pulse series inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have...
Kristina Armitage for Quanta Magazine Three computer scientists have actually posted a proof of the NLTS opinion, showing that systems of knotted particles can remain challenging to analyze even away from extremes. A striking new proof in quantum computational complexity could best be comprehended with a lively idea experiment. Run a bath; after that dispose a...
Credit: durantelallera/Shutterstock A study looks to find the reason for males having more upper-body mass than women. The research is based on the assumption that men have been fighters for so long that evolution has chosen those best equipped for the task. If men combated other men, winners would have survived and reproduced, losers not...
The large radio telescope and an illustration of the signal. (CHIME/MIT) A brand-new radio signal from deep space is once again challenging our understanding of these mysterious phenomena. Not only is this brand-new fast radio burst, called FRB 20191221A, another extremely rare repeater, but it is not even that quick: the radio flashes received across intergalactic...
A pulsar with its jets and magnetic fields. Credit: NASA Far out in the Milky Way, about 22,000 light-years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic power that beats anything physicists have seen before. At an enormous 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar named Swift J0243.6+6124 smashes the previous records of around one...
Richard Feynman once stated that the double-slit experiment reveals the central challenges of quantum mechanics, putting us ''up against the and peculiarities of nature and paradoxes and mysteries''. Nandini Mukherjee, Richard Zare, and their co-workers at Stanford University, United States, have currently revealed that when helium (He) atoms collide with deuterium molecules (D2) in a quantum...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For decades, scientists have been seeking a catalyst that dramatically lowers the price of fabricating hydrogen fuel cells. Such an advance could trigger a green power transformation, with everything from laptops to locomotives running on a fuel whose merely byproduct is water. A new study led by the University at Buffalo indicates that...
Credit: Allard Mosk/Matthias Kühmayer We can see things because light bounces off of them. Scientists say they have discovered a manner to make light pass directly via things-- the secret to invisibility. Invisibility is not science fiction anymore. Researchers have developed a single light wave that, when emitted via an item, makes the item appear invisible...
Credit: Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash A new study proposes that artificial intelligence (AI) can devise approaches to wealth distribution that are more popular than systems developed by people. The discoveries made by a group of researchers at UK-based AI firm DeepMind show that machine learning systems are not just proficient at fixing complicated physics and biology issues but...
The researchers' method: introducing ripples in 2D material, molybdenum disulfide to achieve two orders of magnitude enhancement in carrier mobility at room temperature, allowing electrons to move faster through the material. Credit: Dr. Wu Jing, A*STAR, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are semiconducting materials with thicknesses on the atomic range, which...
