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3D-printed metamaterials harness complex geometry to dampen mechanical vibrations

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Published: October 14, 2025 16:23

In science and engineering, it's unusual for innovation to come in one fell swoop. It's more often a painstaking plod through which the extraordinary gradually becomes ordinary.

Anomalous metal sheds light on 'impossible' state between superconductivity and insulation

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Published: October 14, 2025 16:04

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors from superconductivity to insulation—creating an "impossible," strange state between the two mutually exclusive states.

Compact laser-plasma accelerator can generate muons on demand for imaging

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Published: October 14, 2025 13:40

Muon beams can now be created in a device that is the length of a ruler.

Deep blue organic light-emitting diode operates at just 1.5 V

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Published: October 14, 2025 12:40

A deep blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED) developed by researchers at Science Tokyo operates on just a single 1.5 V, overcoming the high-voltage and color-purity problems that have long limited blue OLEDs. The breakthrough was achieved by introducing…

Quantum crystals offer a blueprint for the future of computing and chemistry

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Published: October 14, 2025 12:05

Imagine industrial processes that make materials or chemical compounds faster, cheaper, and with fewer steps than ever before. Imagine processing information in your laptop in seconds instead of minutes or a supercomputer that learns and adapts as…

Researchers achieve atomic-scale control of quantum interference

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Published: October 14, 2025 11:42

In a study published in Nature Communications, a research team demonstrates the all-electrical control of quantum interference in individual atomic spins on a surface.

Tracking daily commutes with mobile data uncovers urban and rural differences in disease spread

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-tracking-daily-commutes-mobile-uncovers.html

Published: October 14, 2025 11:00

For countless millions across the globe, commuting to work or school is an everyday routine. But during a pandemic, the practice can contribute enormously to the spread of infectious disease, a fact that many traditional metapopulation models often…

Direct evidence of universal anyon tunneling in a chiral Luttinger liquid revealed in edge-mode experiment

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-evidence-universal-anyon-tunneling-chiral.html

Published: October 14, 2025 07:00

Electrons in two-dimensional (2D) systems placed under strong magnetic fields often behave in unique ways, prompting the emergence of so-called fractional quantum Hall liquids. These are exotic states of matter in which electrons behave collectively and…

Twisting sound: Scientists discover a new way to control mechanical vibrations in metamaterial

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Published: October 13, 2025 15:00

Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have discovered a way to control sound and vibrations using a concept inspired by "twistronics," a phenomenon originally developed for electronics.

Uncertainty-aware Fourier ptychography enhances imaging stability in real-world conditions

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-uncertainty-aware-fourier-ptychography-imaging.html

Published: October 13, 2025 14:32

Professor Edmund Lam, Dr. Ni Chen and their research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed a novel uncertainty-aware Fourier ptychography…

From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics

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Published: October 13, 2025 11:27

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their study of quantum mechanics in a macroscopic electrical circuit.

A new scalable approach to realize a quantum communication network based on ytterbium-171 atoms

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Published: October 11, 2025 08:30

Quantum networks, systems consisting of connected quantum computers, quantum sensors or other quantum devices, hold the potential of enabling faster and safer communications. The establishment of these networks relies on a quantum phenomenon known as…

Stable ferroaxial states offer a new type of light-controlled non-volatile memory

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-stable-ferroaxial-states-volatile-memory.html

Published: October 10, 2025 12:33

Ferroic materials such as ferromagnets and ferroelectrics underpin modern data storage, yet face limits: They switch slowly, or suffer from unstable polarization due to depolarizing fields respectively. A new class, ferroaxials, avoids these issues by…

Multimode quantum entanglement achieved via dissipation engineering

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Published: October 10, 2025 12:25

A research team led by Prof. Lin Yiheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with Prof. Yuan Haidong from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, succeeded in generating multipartite quantum entangled states across two,…

Ice XXI: Scientists use X-ray laser to identify new room-temperature phase

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Published: October 10, 2025 11:44

Ice cream comes in many different flavors. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to exist in more than 20 different solid forms or phases that differ in the arrangement of the molecules. The phases are named with…

Controlling atomic interactions in ultracold gas 'at the push of a button'

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Published: October 10, 2025 11:31

Changing interactions between the smallest particles at the touch of a button: Quantum researchers at RPTU have developed a new tool that makes this possible. The new approach—a temporally oscillating magnetic field—has the potential to significantly…

Physics-informed AI excels at large-scale discovery of new materials

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Published: October 10, 2025 11:04

One of the key steps in developing new materials is property identification, which has long relied on massive amounts of experimental data and expensive equipment, limiting research efficiency. A KAIST research team has introduced a new technique that…

The playbook for perfect polaritons: Rules for creating quasiparticles that can power optical computers, quantum devices

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-playbook-polaritons-quasiparticles-power-optical.html

Published: October 10, 2025 11:00

Light is fast, but travels in long wavelengths and interacts weakly with itself. The particles that make up matter are tiny and interact strongly with each other, but move slowly. Together, the two can combine into a hybrid quasiparticle called a polariton…

Strain engineering enhances spin readout in quantum technologies, study shows

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Published: October 10, 2025 06:30

Quantum defects are tiny imperfections in solid crystal lattices that can trap individual electrons and their "spin" (i.e., the internal angular momentum of particles). These defects are central to the functioning of various quantum technologies, including…

California physicist and Nobel laureate John Martinis won't quit on quantum computers

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Published: October 10, 2025 05:57

A California physicist and Nobel laureate who laid the foundation for quantum computing isn't done working.

A new method to build more energy-efficient memory devices could lead to a sustainable data future

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Published: October 10, 2025 05:00

A research team led by Kyushu University has developed a new fabrication method for energy-efficient magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) using a new material called thulium iron garnet (TmIG) that has been attracting global attention for its ability to…

Freely levitating rotor spins out ultraprecise sensors for classical and quantum physics

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Published: October 10, 2025 05:00

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a wide range of sensing technologies.

Individual electrons trapped and controlled above 1 K, easing cooling limits for quantum computing

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Published: October 9, 2025 14:15

Researchers from EeroQ, the quantum computing company pioneering electron-on-helium technology, have published a paper, titled "Sensing and Control of Single Trapped Electrons Above 1 Kelvin," in Physical Review X that details a significant milestone: the…

Quantum fluctuations found hidden beneath classical optical signals in polaritons

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Published: October 9, 2025 13:34

When optical materials (molecules or solid-state semiconductors) are embedded in tiny photonic boxes, known as optical microcavities, they form hybrid light-matter states known as polaritons. Most of the optical properties of polaritons under weak…

Ultrafast laser pulses reveal solid-state bandgaps in motion

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Published: October 9, 2025 11:40

The bandgap, i.e. the energy gap between the highest lying valence and the lowest lying conduction band, is a defining property of insulating solids, governing how they absorb light and conduct electricity. Tracking how a bandgap changes under strong laser…

Superconductivity distorts crystal lattice of topological quantum materials

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Published: October 9, 2025 11:32

Superconductors (materials that conduct electricity without resistance) have fascinated physicists for more than a century. While conventional superconductors are well understood, a new class of materials known as topological superconductors has attracted…

World's most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves

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Published: October 9, 2025 10:59

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO—has completed its first science run.

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nobel-prize-physics-awarded-ultracold.html

Published: October 9, 2025 10:08

Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation promises to allow researchers to solve problems in areas from chemistry to cryptography that have so many possible solutions that they are…

Tiny engine runs hotter than the sun to probe the frontiers of thermodynamics

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Published: October 9, 2025 09:55

Scientists have created the world's hottest engine running at temperatures hotter than those reached in the sun's core. The team from King's College London and collaborators believe their platform could provide an unparalleled understanding of the laws of…

Nanoscale X-ray imaging reveals bulk altermagnetism in MnTe

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nanoscale-ray-imaging-reveals-bulk.html

Published: October 9, 2025 08:52

Magnetic materials have been known since ancient times and play an important role in modern society, where the net magnetic order offers routes to energy harvesting and data processing. It is the net magnetic moment of ferromagnets that has so far been key…

Physicists improve precision of atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-physicists-precision-atomic-clocks-quantum.html

Published: October 8, 2025 13:05

Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the precision of atomic clocks.

Quantum dynamics on your laptop? New technique moves us closer

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Published: October 8, 2025 12:09

Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once.

Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color

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Published: October 8, 2025 12:00

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without requiring a new chip for new colors.

Research shines light on 'double-yielding' behavior in soft materials

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Published: October 8, 2025 10:28

For decades, scientists have observed, but been unable to explain, a phenomenon seen in some soft materials: When force is applied, these materials exhibit not one, but two spikes in energy dissipation, known as overshoots. Because overshoots are generally…

Researchers discover a hidden atomic order that persists in metals even after extreme processing

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Published: October 8, 2025 10:09

For decades, it's been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter—or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recent studies have shown that in laboratory settings, these…

High-speed onion mist: Cutting technique and blade sharpness affect droplet spray, study shows

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-high-onion-mist-technique-blade.html

Published: October 7, 2025 15:53

A new discovery about how cutting onions ejects pungent aerosols up to two-thirds of a meter into the air has led to practical advice for reducing the spray: Cut onions slowly with a sharpened blade or coat an onion in oil before cutting.

Observing quantum weirdness in our world: Nobel physics explained

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-quantum-weirdness-world-nobel-physics.html

Published: October 7, 2025 12:36

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists on Tuesday for discovering that a bizarre barrier-defying phenomenon in the quantum realm could be observed on an electrical circuit in our classical world.

Two-step excitation unlocks and steers exotic nanolight

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Published: October 7, 2025 12:09

An international team of researchers has developed a novel technique to efficiently excite and control highly-confined light-matter waves, known as higher-order hyperbolic phonon polaritons. Their method not only sets new records for the quality and…

First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches

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Published: October 7, 2025 10:29

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in photonics: the design of the first optical device that follows the emerging framework of optical thermodynamics.

Physicists develop new quantum sensor at the atomic lattice scale

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-physicists-quantum-sensor-atomic-lattice.html

Published: October 7, 2025 10:12

From computer chips to quantum dots—technological platforms were only made possible thanks to a detailed understanding of the used solid-state materials, such as silicon or more complex semiconductor materials. This understanding also includes being able…

Plasma rampdown prediction model could improve reliability of fusion power plants

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-plasma-rampdown-reliability-fusion-power.html

Published: October 7, 2025 09:56

Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun. These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter than the sun's core and push the plasma's atoms to fuse and release energy. If tokamaks can operate safely…

High-precision measurements reveal the energies of nuclear decays

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-high-precision-reveal-energies-nuclear.html

Published: October 7, 2025 09:51

Neutrinos are very common fundamental particles included in the Standard Model of particle physics. Measuring their properties allows for creating more accurate models of the birth of the universe, the life of stars and the interactions between fundamental…

Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-powerful-precise-multi-lasers-chip.html

Published: October 7, 2025 09:22

A few years ago, researchers in Michal Lipson's lab noticed something remarkable. They were working on a project to improve LiDAR, a technology that uses lightwaves to measure distance. The lab was designing high-power chips that could produce brighter…

Nobel Prize for physics goes to 3 scientists for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nobel-prize-physics-scientists-discoveries.html

Published: October 7, 2025 06:01

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research into quantum mechanical tunneling.

Computer advances and 'invisibility cloak' vie for physics Nobel

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Published: October 7, 2025 04:45

A math theory powering computer image compression, an "invisibility cloak" or the science behind the James Webb Space Telescope are some achievements that could be honored when the Nobel physics prize is awarded Tuesday.

The Nobel Prize in physics is to be announced Tuesday

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Published: October 7, 2025 04:44

Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced Tuesday, the second award to be revealed this year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm a day after a trio of scientists won the prize for contributions to medicine.

Researchers integrate waveguide physics into metasurfaces for advanced light control

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-waveguide-physics-metasurfaces-advanced.html

Published: October 6, 2025 15:37

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics. These engineered materials offer precise control over lights behavior, but many conventional designs are held back by inefficiencies.…

Stretchable waveguides maintain stable transmission even when bent or twisted

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-stretchable-waveguides-stable-transmission-bent.html

Published: October 6, 2025 14:28

Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted or stretched. These plasmonic waveguides could make it possible to seamlessly embed…

Virtual particles: How physicists' clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-virtual-particles-physicists-clever-bookkeeping.html

Published: October 6, 2025 13:40

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained without this tool. The calculations using virtual particles…

Quantum uncertainty captured in real time using femtosecond light pulses

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-quantum-uncertainty-captured-real-femtosecond.html

Published: October 6, 2025 13:40

Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast pulses of light. Their discovery, published in the journal Light: Science & Applications, could…

How biological motors achieve maximum efficiency

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Published: October 6, 2025 13:30

Inside nearly every cell of your body, the tiny F1 motor works non-stop to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the universal energy source that powers almost every action you take—from breathing to running. While scientists have understood the structure…

Third dimension of data storage: Physicists demonstrate first hybrid skyrmion tubes for higher-density quantum computing

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-dimension-storage-physicists-hybrid-skyrmion.html

Published: October 6, 2025 12:50

Typically, the charge of electrons is used to store and process information in electronics-based devices. In spintronics, the focus is instead on the magnetic moment or on magnetic vortices, so-called skyrmions—the goal is smaller, faster, and more…

From engines to nanochips: Physicists redefine how heat really moves

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nanochips-physicists-redefine.html

Published: October 6, 2025 12:44

Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat spreads out smoothly, like water soaking through a sponge. That simple picture, written down by Joseph Fourier 200 years ago, became…

Harnessing GeSn semiconductors for tomorrow's quantum world

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-harnessing-gesn-semiconductors-tomorrow-quantum.html

Published: October 6, 2025 12:07

An international team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), Tohoku University (Japan), and École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) has made a significant discovery in semiconductor science by revealing the remarkable spin-related…

Strontium optical lattice clock exhibits record-high coherence time

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Published: October 6, 2025 11:20

Optical lattice clocks are emerging timekeeping devices based on tens of thousands of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice (i.e., a grid of laser light). By oscillating between two distinct quantum states at a particular frequency, these atoms…

Chip-based phonon splitter brings hybrid quantum networks closer to reality

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Published: October 6, 2025 10:00

Researchers have created a chip-based device that can split phonons—tiny packets of mechanical vibration that can carry information in quantum systems. By filling a key gap, this device could help connect various quantum devices via phonons, paving the way…

Researchers develop the first miniaturized ultraviolet spectrometer chip

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Published: October 6, 2025 09:54

Recently, the iGaN Laboratory led by Professor Haiding Sun at the School of Microelectronics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), together with the team of academician Sheng Liu from Wuhan University, has successfully developed the…

Molecular coating cleans up noisy quantum light

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-molecular-coating-noisy-quantum.html

Published: October 3, 2025 14:00

Quantum technologies demand perfection: one photon at a time, every time, all with the same energy. Even tiny deviations in the number or energy of photons can derail devices, threatening the performance of quantum computers that someday could make up a…

Energy harvesters surpass Carnot efficiency using non-thermal electron states

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-energy-harvesters-surpass-carnot-efficiency.html

Published: October 3, 2025 12:03

Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits such as Carnot efficiency, report researchers from Japan. The team developed a new approach using a non-thermal Tomonaga-Luttinger…

Novel method for controlling Faraday rotation in conductive polymers

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-method-faraday-rotation-polymers.html

Published: October 3, 2025 11:52

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a novel method for controlling the optical rotation of conductive polymer polythiophene in a magnetic field at low voltage. This method combines the "Faraday rotation" phenomenon, in which a…

Researchers demonstrate substrate design principles for scalable superconducting quantum materials

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-substrate-principles-scalable-superconducting-quantum.html

Published: October 3, 2025 11:17

Silicides—alloys of silicon and metals long used in microelectronics—are now being explored again for quantum hardware. But their use faces a critical challenge: achieving phase purity, since some silicide phases are superconducting while others are not.

Molecular qubits can communicate at telecom frequencies

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-molecular-qubits-communicate-telecom-frequencies.html

Published: October 2, 2025 17:02

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of California Berkeley, Argonne National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed molecular qubits that bridge the gap between light and magnetism—and operate at…

Quantum key distribution method tested in urban infrastructure offers secure communications

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Published: October 2, 2025 13:37

In the era of instant data exchange and growing risks of cyberattacks, scientists are seeking secure methods of transmitting information. One promising solution is quantum cryptography—a quantum technology that uses single photons to establish encryption…

AI techniques excel at solving complex equations in physics, especially inverse problems

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ai-techniques-excel-complex-equations.html

Published: October 2, 2025 13:20

Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve very different scales or highly sensitive parameters),…

Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment

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Published: October 2, 2025 12:19

The adage goes "like mother like daughter," and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and was herself awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935…

White Rabbit optical timing technology meets quantum entanglement

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Published: October 2, 2025 11:32

A small yet innovative experiment is taking place at CERN. Its goal is to test how the CERN-born optical timing signal—normally used in the Laboratory's accelerators to synchronize devices with ultra-high precision—can best be sent through an optical fiber…

Finding buried treasures with physics: 'Fingerprint matrix' method uncovers what lies beneath the sand

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-treasures-physics-fingerprint-matrix-method.html

Published: October 2, 2025 10:13

Can we reveal objects that are hidden in environments completely opaque to the human eye? With conventional imaging techniques, the answer is no: a dense cloud or layer of material blocks light so completely that a simple photograph contains no information…

Supercritical fluids once thought uniform found to contain liquid clusters

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Published: October 2, 2025 10:00

A supercritical fluid refers to a state in which the temperature and pressure of a substance exceed its critical point, where no distinction exists between liquid and gas phases. Traditionally, it has been regarded as a single, uniform phase. However, a…

'Spooky action at a distance'—a beginner's guide to quantum entanglement and why it matters

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spooky-action-distance-beginner-quantum.html

Published: October 2, 2025 09:35

Many governments and tech companies are investing heavily in quantum technologies. In New Zealand, the recently announced Institute for Advanced Technology is also envisioned to focus on this area of research.

Combination of quantum and classical computing supports early diagnosis of breast cancer

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-combination-quantum-classical-early-diagnosis.html

Published: October 1, 2025 16:10

Quantum computing is still in its early stages of development, but researchers have extensively explored its potential uses. A recent study conducted at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil proposed a hybrid quantum-classical model to support…

Entangled states enhance energy transfer in models of molecular systems

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Published: October 1, 2025 15:59

A study from Rice University, published in PRX Quantum, has found that energy transfers more quickly between molecular sites when it starts in an entangled, delocalized quantum state instead of from a single site. The discovery could lead to the…

Spontaneous emission behaves contrary to predictions in photonic time crystals

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spontaneous-emission-contrary-photonic-crystals.html

Published: October 1, 2025 12:53

A new study reveals that spontaneous emission, a key phenomenon in the interaction between light and atoms, manifests in a new form within a photonic time crystal. This research, led by a KAIST team, not only overturns existing theory but further predicts…

Dark matter detector succeeds in performing measurements with nearly no radioactive interference

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Published: October 1, 2025 12:05

In their search for dark matter, scientists from the XENON Collaboration are using one of the world's most sensitive dark matter detectors, XENONnT at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics INFN in Italy, to detect extremely…