Current Models Underestimate Tsunami Risks
USC researchers discovered a link between tsunami severity and the width of the outer wedge (the area between the continental shelf and deep trenches where…
Physics
Supercomputers help Solve the Hawaiian-Emperor Undersea Mystery
To quantify the amount of Pacific Plate motion change associated with the Hawaiian — Emperor Bend, kinematic plate reconstructions and high-resolution global dynamic models were…
Quantum Gases Put All Sounds on Repeat
For the first time, a quantum gas has been discovered that can concurrently transmit sound waves at two distinct speeds. Any event that creates sound…
Researchers Develop a “Quantum Flute” That Can Coordinate the Movement of Light Particles
Scientists at the University of Chicago have created a “quantum flute” that, like the Pied Piper, can force light particles to interact in ways that…
To Enable an All-Silicon Quantum Internet, Researchers Have Discovered the Missing Photonic Link
At Simon Fraser University, scientists have made a significant advancement in the field of quantum technology. Over 150,000 silicon “T center” photon-spin qubits were observed…
Gold Crystals with Atomically Smooth Surfaces Aid in Light Compression for Nanophotonic Applications
A new method for steering compressed light waves in ultra-thin van der Waals crystals has been successfully demonstrated by researchers from KAIST and their collaborators…
Researchers Master Electron Spin Control at Room Temperature to Improve Device Speed and Efficient
Spintronics may continue along that path as our devices get smaller, faster, more energy-efficient, and able to store more data. Spintronics is based on the…
Benefits of New Soft X-Ray Transition Energies Benchmark in Astrophysical Plasma
In order to understand some of the Universe’s most potent and enigmatic objects and events, such as stellar coronae and winds, cataclysmic variables, X-ray binaries…
New Higgs-Related Particle Discovered In Tabletop Experiments
The most intricate interactions of basic particles need highly strong accelerators, which must be enormous in order to deliver such energy. However, with a far…
Why Your Wedding Almost Certainly Broke the Speed of Sound
You would not think of a wedding (or a birthday, or any other type of event) as a logical setting for a physics experiment, but…
Internet Heavily Invested In Woman’s Quest to Unstick Her Bowls
Twitter has been extremely involved in solving a little scientific problem in the previous several days: how to get one woman’s bowls unstuck. While doing…
Researchers Find a Way to Simulate Nonlinear Quantum Electrodynamics in a Laboratory
In movies, video games, and our imaginations, lightsabers catch and flare when they collide. The light beams actually pass through one another, just like in…
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