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Optics & Photonics Apr 2, 2025

Enhancing light control with complex frequency excitations

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and at Florida International University report in the journal Science their insights on the emerging field of complex frequency excitations, ...

Space Exploration Apr 1, 2025

How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances stemming from the Human Genome ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Mar 26, 2025

Hypersonic shock waves: 3D simulations expose new flow disturbances

At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle, such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The Grainger College of ...

Condensed Matter Mar 25, 2025

Listening to quantum atoms talk together thanks to acoustics

What happens when a quantum physicist is frustrated by the limitations of quantum mechanics when trying to study densely packed atoms? At EPFL, you get a metamaterial, an engineered material that exhibits exotic properties.

Optics & Photonics Mar 25, 2025

Cascaded-mode interferometer could replace beam-splitting waveguides for fiber optics

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas sensing and optical computing.

Environment Mar 18, 2025

Coastal guardians pioneer new tool to protect the Florida Keys' shorelines from erosion and damage

By 2050, sea levels along the United States coast are expected to rise by 0.25 to 0.30 meters, increasing flooding in low-lying areas. Due to its unique geography and infrastructure network, the Florida Keys is particularly ...

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Mar 15, 2025

D-Wave claims its quantum computers can solve a problem of scientific relevance much faster than classical methods

A team of quantum computer researchers at quantum computer maker D-Wave, working with an international team of physicists and engineers, is claiming that its latest quantum processor has been used to run a quantum simulation ...

Soft Matter Mar 11, 2025

Novel technique manipulates water waves to precisely control floating objects

A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a way to manipulate water waves, allowing them to trap and precisely move floating objects—almost ...

Ecology Feb 26, 2025

Scientists build robot to track plant-fungal trade networks, revealing nature's underground supply chains

New research published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2025, uses advanced robotics to track the hyper-efficient supply chains formed between plants and mycorrhizal fungi as they trade carbon and nutrients across the ...

Condensed Matter Feb 13, 2025

Greetings from the fourth dimension: Scientists glimpse 4D crystal structure using surface wave patterns

In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According to diffraction measurements ...

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