/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Noise is annoying, whether you're trying to sleep or exploit the laws of quantum physics. Although noise from environmental disturbances will always be with us, a team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may have found a new way of dealing with it at the microscopic scales where quantum physics reigns. Addressing this noise could make possible the best sensors ever made, with applications ranging from health care to mineral exploration. /news/2025-09-quantum-noise-halfway.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:59:04 EDT news676727942 A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. Now, thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a newly detected black hole merger is providing the clearest evidence yet of how black holes work—and, in the process, offering long-sought confirmation of fundamental predictions by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. /news/2025-09-black-hole-einstein-hawking.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:00:40 EDT news676639833 Phases of matter are the basic states that matter can take—like water that can occur in a liquid or ice phase. Traditionally, these phases are defined under equilibrium conditions, where the system is stable over time. But nature allows for stranger possibilities: new phases that emerge only when a system is driven out of equilibrium. In a new study published in Nature, a research team shows that quantum computers offer an unparalleled way to explore those exotic states of matter. /news/2025-09-exotic-phase-quantum-processor.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:00:04 EDT news676638961 Catalysts are indispensable for the large-scale production of many chemicals, as they accelerate chemical reactions. Some of them contain metal atoms such as iron as key building blocks. The electrons of each individual iron atom possess a tiny magnetic moment, the so-called spin. When several iron atoms meet in a catalyst, the way their spins are oriented relative to each other is crucial. /news/2025-09-magnets-quantum-mechanics-deciphers-iron.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:13:04 EDT news676717981 Multivariate porous materials (MTV) are like a "collection of Lego blocks," allowing for customized design at a molecular level to freely create desired structures. Using these materials enables a wide range of applications, including energy storage and conversion, which can significantly contribute to solving environmental problems and advancing next-generation energy technologies. /news/2025-09-quantum-enables-lego-porous-materials.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:42:04 EDT news676712522 During his Ph.D. at UMass, Nikhil Malvankar was laser-focused on quantum mechanics and the movement of electrons in superconductors. Now a professor at Yale, the native of Mumbai, India, has pivoted toward biology to explain how bacteria breathe deep underground without the aid of oxygen. /news/2025-09-scientist-microbial-roots-potential-quantum.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:27:04 EDT news676654022 The iridescent blue of butterfly wings has inspired researchers to find a solution to a challenge previously considered insurmountable—dynamically tuning advanced optical processes at visible wavelengths. /news/2025-09-butterfly-wings-solution-impossible-optics.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:19:06 EDT news676628341 In a breakthrough for next-generation technologies, scientists have learned how to precisely control the behavior of tiny waves of light and electrons, paving the way for faster communications and quantum devices. /news/2025-09-terahertz-faster-electronics.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:20:04 EDT news676555462 Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex computational problems, with applications in everything from supply chain management to medicine and beyond. /news/2025-09-quantum-limit-entanglement.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:21:04 EDT news676534861 Imagine a clock that doesn't have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close as humans can get to that idea. The team's advancement is a new example of a "time crystal." That's the name for a curious phase of matter in which the pieces, such as atoms or other particles, exist in constant motion. /news/2025-09-physicists-kind-crystal-humans.html Condensed Matter Soft Matter Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:30:05 EDT news676297428 Graphene is an extraordinary material—a sheet of interlocking carbon atoms just one atom thick that is stable and extremely conductive. This makes it useful in a range of areas, such as flexible electronic displays, highly precise sensors, powerful batteries, and efficient solar cells. /news/2025-09-floquet-effects-graphene-potential-future.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:10:06 EDT news676296601 The existing bottleneck in efficiently miniaturizing components for quantum computers could be eased with the help of 3D printing. /news/2025-09-3d-micro-ion-quantum-tech.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:47:38 EDT news676280851 There are various ways to create artificial diamonds, but a new method developed by researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, yields some extra benefits. /news/2025-09-diamonds-electron.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:00:12 EDT news676031342 Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data inherently "noisy." Rice University computer scientists have developed algorithms that account for noise that is not just random but malicious. Their work could help make quantum computers more accurate and dependable. /news/2025-09-algorithms-malicious-noise-result-accurate.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:24:04 EDT news676131841 Researchers have demonstrated a new fabrication approach that enables the exploration of a broader range of superconducting materials for quantum hardware. /news/2025-09-fabrication-technique-door-materials-quantum.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:59:03 EDT news676108741 Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have been able to see the magnetic nucleus of an atom switch back and forth in real time. They read out the nuclear "spin" via the electrons in the same atom through the needle of a scanning tunneling microscope. /news/2025-09-quantum-real-magnet-heart-atom.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:25:03 EDT news676041901 Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces between three or more atoms bind them together, even as they are excited to higher energy levels, while that same force is insufficient to bind two atoms. /news/2025-09-quantum-oddity-atoms.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:12:04 EDT news676041121 How can data be processed at lightning speed, or electricity conducted without loss? To achieve this, scientists and industry alike are turning to quantum materials, governed by the laws of the infinitesimal. Designing such materials requires a detailed understanding of atomic phenomena, much of which remains unexplored. /news/2025-09-quantum-curvature-warps-electron-hinting.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:37:18 EDT news676024629 How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first proposed in 1763. Now, an international team of researchers has shown how Bayes' rule operates in the quantum world. /news/2025-08-probability-theorem-quantum-makeover-years.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:10:05 EDT news675680657 Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type of theorist, doing analytical calculations mostly," Sun said. "My interests are pretty broad, but basically searching for new fundamental principles and new phenomena, especially new phenomena and new physics previously believed to be impossible." /news/2025-08-quantum-state-boost-future-technologies.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:13:07 EDT news675612784 In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania brought quantum networking out of the lab and onto commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that powers today's web. /news/2025-08-quantum-standard-internet-protocol.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:00:01 EDT news675508613 Quantum researchers have deployed a new algorithm to manage noise in qubits in real time. The method can be applied to a wide range of different qubits, even in large numbers. /news/2025-08-clever-algorithm-enables-real-noise.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:46:04 EDT news675603961 How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Spain and Italy proposed a new model for the events that transpired immediately after the birth of the universe. /news/2025-08-theory-universe-inflation.html Astronomy Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:32:31 EDT news675595945 Nanoparticles have diverse applications in modern science and industry, powering technologies like quantum-dot displays, nanocatalysts and drug delivery. Their unique physicochemical properties, which can be tuned by changing their size and shape, make them highly attractive. /news/2025-08-mechanism-nanoparticle-formation-century-classical.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:28:04 EDT news675595681 An international research team led by Robert Ott and Hannes Pichler has developed a novel architecture for quantum processors that is specifically designed for simulating fermions—particles such as electrons. The method can be implemented using technologies already available today. /news/2025-08-blueprint-error-fermionic-quantum-processors.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:46:04 EDT news675589562 Quantum computers, systems that perform computations leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers in some optimization and information processing tasks. As these systems are highly influenced by noise, however, they need to integrate strategies that will minimize the errors they produce. /news/2025-08-protocol-enables-magic-states-fault.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:40:01 EDT news675354692 In stoichiometric compounds (compounds with fixed ratios of elements), the elemental ratios are dictated by chemical stability, which constrains how much the composition, and consequently the number of valence electron-per-atom (e/a) ratio, can be adjusted. Tuning e/a has proved to be a promising strategy to architect magnetic properties in many intermetallic compounds, especially those with complex structures including quasicrystals (QCs) and their structurally related approximant crystals (ACs). /news/2025-08-material-strategy-magnetic-tunability-quasicrystal.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:23:20 EDT news675523396 The same technology behind MRI images of injury or disease also powers nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which is used to analyze biological molecules for research on diseases and therapeutics. While NMR spectroscopy produces valuable data about the structure of molecules, the resolution is too low to sense individual atoms. /news/2025-08-mri-technology-quantum-advancement-2d.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:11:04 EDT news675515461 Quantum technologies, devices that work by leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical technologies in some fields and settings. The so-called spin (i.e., intrinsic angular momentum) carried by quantum particles is central to the functioning of quantum systems, as it can store quantum information. /news/2025-08-approach-suppresses-magnetic-noise-fast.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:40:01 EDT news675348018 The internet, social media, and digital technologies have completely transformed the way we establish commercial, personal and professional relationships. At its core, this society relies on the exchange of information that is expressed in terms of bits. This basic unit of information can be either a 0 or a 1, and it is usually represented in electrical circuits, for instance, as two voltage levels (one representing the bit in state 0 and the other representing state 1). /news/2025-08-quantum-memory-array-closer-ram.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:33:04 EDT news675423181