October 2024

Researchers at the National Center for Physical Acoustics are using a laser array and vibration machines to develop a faster, more efficient …

Robert Walton’s world map. Drawn in 1626, it includes all recently discovered territories on the Earth but considers only nine climate zones …

One of my favorite paintings is Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh — for obvious astronomical reasons. But another favorite of van …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Compared with just before the COVID-19 pandemic, people are spending nearly an hour less a day doing activities …

The new approach produces extremely accurate and stable frequencies and could significantly enhance precision timekeeping and high-resolution atomic and molecular spectroscopy. Credit: …

In the summer of ’69, Apollo 11 delivered humans to the surface of the Moon for the first time. Neil Armstrong and …

Generating Peierls phases using parametric coupling in a 16-qubit superconducting processor. Credit: Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02661-3 Quantum computers hold the promise …

In June 2018, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers …

3D virtual reconstruction of the Bronze Age site of al-Natah. Reprinted under a CC BY license, with permission from AFALULA-RCU-CNRS, 2024. Credit: …

Schematic diagram of interlayer spin-coupled states between ferromagnetic (FM: Py) and paramagnetic (PM: PANI) layers. Credit: Advanced Electronic Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202400322 …