Science News • 21st July 2021 NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has begun its first science campaign Now about 1 kilometer south of its landing spot, the rover has spotted several promising spots in its search for hints of ancient life.
UCLA • 29th April 2021 How long is a day on Venus? Scientists crack mysteries of our closest neighbor Fifteen years of radar measurements provide new information on the planet’s spin and internal structure
Physics • 22nd April 2021 Black Holes Obey Information-Emission Limits An analysis of the gravitational waves emitted from black hole mergers confirms that black holes are the fastest known information dissipaters.
Physics • 16th March 2021 A Noninvasive Quantum Thermometer A quantum dot can measure ultracold temperatures without the need for direct electrical connections to the outside world.
Physics • 24th February 2021 How a Microorganism Corkscrews While It Breaststrokes High-speed imaging and simulations show that the single-celled organism called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii beats its flagella on separate planes, explaining how it generates its helical movement.
Science News for Students • 11th January 2021 Our feverish universe is getting hotter every day Today the cosmos is 2 million degrees Celsius, 10 times hotter than it used to be
Physics • 23rd December 2020 Securing a Wireless Link with Quantum Researchers shared tamper-proof quantum information across nearly 20 km of open air in an urban environment.
Science News for Students • 23rd December 2020 Rogue planets wander the galaxy all alone Not all planets orbit stars. Some zip through our galaxy all on their own. And now astronomers have found the smallest of these rogue planets yet.
Physics • 21st December 2020 Connecting Qubits via a Cryogenic Link A cold waveguide provides a reliable conduit for transferring states between remote qubits, making it potentially useful for building networks connecting superconducting circuits.
Sky & Telescope • 1st December 2020 Specks Between the Stars When thinking about cosmic wonders, we often sweep interstellar dust under the rug. But these humble particles play a huge role in the universe.
Physics • 13th October 2020 Electrical Control of the “Valley” Researchers show that they can electrically switch which energy valley electrons occupy in a solid, a key step toward enabling a “valleytronics” approach to information applications.
Science News • 28th September 2020 A ‘lake’ on Mars may be surrounded by more pools of water New radar data add to evidence of water under Mars’ south pole, but it’s not “a slam dunk yet”
Physics • 15th September 2020 Detecting Acoustic Blackbody Radiation A nanomechanical resonator detects and isolates acoustic waves from a remote thermal source.
Science News • 27th August 2020 Earth’s building blocks may have had far more water than previously thought Meteorites suggest that H2O in the mantle comes from local origins, contrary to expectations
Physics • 11th August 2020 Jumpstarting Electron Motion in Molecules Ultrashort pulses of x rays swap electrons around in molecules of nitric oxide, an important first step to tracking charge motion in molecules.
Physics • 29th July 2020 Could Planet Nine Be a Black Hole? While astronomers look for a ninth planet to explain orbits in the outer solar system, a duo explores the possibility that the mystery object is a primordial black hole.
Physics • 15th July 2020 Magnetic Solitons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Two independent experiments generate self-reinforcing magnetic waves in a condensate containing both spin-up and spin-down atoms.
Physics • 14th July 2020 Corralling Groups of Photons A proposed optical waveguide would take a light pulse and break it into sets of strongly correlated photons, which may give a leg up to certain quantum technologies.
Physics • 1st July 2020 A Shared Quantum Rhythm Using a light pulse, researchers sync up phases in quantum states of roughly a million rubidium atoms, thus demonstrating quantum synchronization for the first time.
Physics • 24th June 2020 A Quantum Signature for the Cosmos Certain galaxy patterns might encode whether the Universe’s primordial density fluctuations were quantum or classical in nature.
