QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Researchers show that atoms that escape from an atom array can be replaced on the fly—an important step toward operating a large-scale neutral-atom quantum computer.

[Physics 17, s93] Published Thu Jul 25, 2024

Author(s): Charles Day

How an alga synchronizes its two flapping cilia to propel itself is revealed in a tabletop experiment with chains of mobile robots.

[Physics 17, s81] Published Wed Jul 24, 2024

Author(s): David Ehrenstein

An ordered pattern of atomic spins with possible uses in computing can become more ordered if shaken at the right frequency.

[Physics 17, s90] Published Tue Jul 23, 2024

Author(s): Sarah Marzen

Both the predictive power and the memory storage capability of an artificial neural network called a reservoir computer increase when time delays are added into how the network processes signals, according to a new model.

[Physics 17, 111] Published Mon Jul 22, 2024

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

A new technique reveals high-speed trajectories of oscillating vortices and shows that they are 10,000 times lighter than expected.

[Physics 17, 117] Published Fri Jul 19, 2024

Author(s): Martin Rodriguez-Vega

Researchers predict that a twisted graphene bilayer excited with light could host a slow-moving acoustic plasmon.

[Physics 17, s91] Published Fri Jul 19, 2024

Author(s): Katherine Wright

Researchers have developed a cancer-detection method that uses painless sound waves, rather than a torturing needle, to obtain genetic information about a patient’s cancer.

[Physics 17, 116] Published Thu Jul 18, 2024

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

A new theory that accounts for disorder in a protein’s structure sheds light on the development inside a cell of tiny droplets that are vital to a cell’s function.

[Physics 17, s82] Published Thu Jul 18, 2024

Author(s): Charles Day

The pressures at which some elements start superconducting are so high that making detailed measurements of the transition has been impossible—until now.

[Physics 17, s84] Published Wed Jul 17, 2024

Author(s): Charles Day

Using a detailed simulation, researchers reveal how climate change will affect the regional dynamics of the conveyor-belt-like circulation of water through the Atlantic Ocean.

[Physics 17, 115] Published Tue Jul 16, 2024

Author(s): Agnese Curatolo

Pebbles that are slightly curved—rather than completely flat—exert the highest impact forces when dropped onto a watery surface.

[Physics 17, s85] Published Tue Jul 16, 2024

Author(s): Naoki Masuda

A machine-learning framework predicts when a complex system, such as an ecosystem or a power grid, will undergo a critical transition.

[Physics 17, 110] Published Mon Jul 15, 2024

Author(s): Michael Schirber

Experiments on a bed of plastic beads reveal a temperature-dependent stiffening over time, which appears to be related to molecular-scale deformations.

[Physics 17, 112] Published Fri Jul 12, 2024

Author(s): Julie Gould

Sonification and other multisensorial approaches offer powerful tools to analyze data, help visually impaired researchers, communicate science, and create science-inspired art.

[Physics 17, 113] Published Fri Jul 12, 2024

Author(s): Katherine Wright

Observations of seven fast-moving stars at the center of a dense star cluster in the Milky Way reveal the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole, perhaps the most puzzling class of these dark objects.

[Physics 17, 114] Published Thu Jul 11, 2024

Author(s): Nikhil Karthik

Electron neutrinos produced by proton–proton collisions at the LHC have been experimentally observed.

[Physics 17, s80] Published Thu Jul 11, 2024

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

A statistical tool tests the long-held assumption that small-scale turbulence is isotropic.

[Physics 17, s77] Published Wed Jul 10, 2024

Author(s): Marric Stephens

Dark matter that interacts with itself could extract significant momentum from a binary supermassive black hole system, causing the black holes to merge.

[Physics 17, s79] Published Tue Jul 09, 2024

Author(s): Tracy Northup

A levitating microparticle is observed to recoil when a nucleus embedded in the particle decays—opening the door to future searches of invisible decay products.

[Physics 17, 107] Published Mon Jul 08, 2024

Scientists have detected the decay of radioactive nuclei by tracking the recoil of dust-sized spheres on which the nuclei were embedded.

[Physics 17, 108] Published Mon Jul 08, 2024