/ en-us ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics, ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Medical imaging methods such as ultrasound and MRI are often affected by background noise, which can introduce blurring and obscure fine anatomical details in the images. For clinicians who depend on medical images, background noise is a fundamental problem in making accurate diagnoses. /news/2025-08-pixel-particle-analogy-quantum-math.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:00:02 EDT news674132702 Some phases of matter cannot be described using the conventional framework of symmetry breaking and exhibit a so-called quantum order. One type of quantum order, known as topological order, is characterized by long-range entanglement between particles across an entire system, a ground state degeneracy that depends on the global shape of the system, and a robustness against local disturbances. /news/2025-08-3d-topological-phase-anomalous-symmetry.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:00:01 EDT news674133791 A photonics research group co-led by Gregor Weihs of the University of Innsbruck has developed a new technique for generating multi-photon states from quantum dots that overcomes the limitations of conventional approaches. This has immediate applications in secure quantum key distribution protocols, where it can enable simultaneous secure communication with different parties. /news/2025-08-quantum-dot-technique-multi-photon.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:22:03 EDT news674148121 Just as overlapping ripples on a pond can amplify or cancel each other out, waves of many kinds—including light, sound and atomic vibrations—can interfere with one another. At the quantum level, this kind of interference powers high-precision sensors and could be harnessed for quantum computing. /news/2025-08-powerful-quantum-paves-phonon-based.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:39:04 EDT news674141941 A major breakthrough in quantum technology was achieved in October 2024: the first-ever quantum satellite communication link between China and South Africa. The connection spanned a remarkable 12,900 km: the longest intercontinental quantum communication link established to date. The longest before this was 7,600 km and within the northern hemisphere only. /news/2025-08-south-africa-china-quantum-communication.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:05:51 EDT news674139948 Sliding ferroelectrics are a type of two-dimensional (2D) material realized by stacking nonpolar monolayers (atom-thick layers that lack an electric dipole). When these individual layers are stacked, they produce ferroelectric materials with an intrinsic polarization (i.e., in which positive and negative charges are spontaneously separated), which can be switched using an external electric field that is perpendicular to them. /news/2025-08-domain-walls-polarization-ferroelectrics.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:10:01 EDT news674133369 How can quantum technologies be developed responsibly? In the journal Science, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and Stanford University argue that international standards should be established before laws are enacted. /news/2025-08-quantum-technologies-standards-greater-chance.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:33:06 EDT news673875174 In the past, chemists have used temperature, pressure, light, and other chemical ways to speed up or slow down chemical reactions. Now, researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a theory that explains a different way to control chemical reactions—one that doesn't rely on heat or light but instead on the quantum environment surrounding the molecules. /news/2025-08-theory-quantum-jigsaw-puzzle-chemical.html Analytical Chemistry Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:20:01 EDT news673870516 With a suite of reimagined instruments at SLAC's LCLS facility, researchers see massive improvement in data quality and take up scientific inquiries that were out of reach just one year ago. /news/2025-08-ray-laser-toolkit-nature-mysteries.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Optics & Photonics Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:16:17 EDT news673870572 Quantum distance refers to a measure of quantum mechanical similarity between two quantum states. A quantum distance of one means that the two quantum states are the same, whereas a quantum distance of zero implies that they are exactly the opposite. ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵicists introduced this concept in the realm of theoretical science a long time ago, but its importance has been increasingly recognized in the field of physics only in recent times. /news/2025-08-scientists-quantum-metric-tensor-black.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:05:04 EDT news673697101 A team of theoretical researchers used thermal effective theory to demonstrate that quantum entanglement follows universal rules across all dimensions. Their study was published online in ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵical Review Letters. /news/2025-08-universal-quantum-entanglement-dimensions.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:34:30 EDT news673691665 Three nano-glass spheres cling to one another. They form a tower-like cluster, similar to when you pile three scoops of ice cream on top of one another—only much smaller. The diameter of the nano cluster is ten times smaller than that of a human hair. /news/2025-08-pure-quantum-state-cooling.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:00:03 EDT news673543434 Research shows that while connections between innovations speed discovery, they also sharply increase the risk of total system collapse—with the sweet spot for sustainable innovation proving surprisingly narrow. /news/2025-08-scientists-limit-networks-collapse.html Mathematics Economics & Business Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:41:05 EDT news673616462 A joint research team from Japan has observed "heavy fermions," electrons with dramatically enhanced mass, exhibiting quantum entanglement governed by the Planckian time—the fundamental unit of time in quantum mechanics. This discovery opens up exciting possibilities for harnessing this phenomenon in solid-state materials to develop a new type of quantum computer. The findings are published in npj Quantum Materials. /news/2025-08-heavy-fermions-entangled-discovery-planckian.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:25:03 EDT news673608301 Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems far beyond the reach of today's fastest supercomputers. But today's machines are notoriously fragile. The quantum bits, or "qubits," that store and process information are easily disrupted by their environment, leading to errors that quickly accumulate. /news/2025-08-discarded-particles-dubbed-neglectons-universal.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:00:03 EDT news673519082 Whenever we mull over what film to watch on Netflix, or deliberate between different products on an e-commerce platform, the gears of recommendation algorithms spin under the hood. These systems sort through sprawling datasets to deliver personalized suggestions. However, as data becomes richer and more interconnected, today's algorithms struggle to keep pace with capturing relationships that span more than just pairs, such as group ratings, cross-category tags, or interactions shaped by time and context. /news/2025-08-quantum-framework-approach-complex-network.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:30:19 EDT news673536610 In a major step toward next-generation electronics, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have discovered a way to manipulate the direction of charge flow in ultrathin metallic films at room temperature using light. This discovery opens the door to more energy-efficient optical sensors, detectors, and quantum information devices. /news/2025-08-ultrathin-metallic-tunable-room-temperature.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:40:02 EDT news673529870 Researchers from South Dakota State University presented a high-tech system to help farmers optimize crop yields while lowering costs at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. The system, detailed in Integrating IoT and secure data transmission in a crop monitoring system, tracks and analyzes crop development through data collected by sensors, biosensors, the Internet of Things and AI. /news/2025-08-crop-iot-ai-tech-optimize.html Biotechnology Agriculture Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:26:03 EDT news673529161 Neural networks revolutionized machine learning for classical computers: self-driving cars, language translation and even artificial intelligence software were all made possible. It is no wonder, then, that researchers wanted to transfer this same power to quantum computers—but all attempts to do so brought unforeseen problems. /news/2025-08-gaussian-path-quantum-machine.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:49:03 EDT news673526941 The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from the Greek word adámas, meaning unbreakable. Scientists have now engineered a harder form of diamond known as bulk hexagonal diamond (HD)—a crystalline structure that has been theorized for over half a century to have physical properties superior to those of conventional diamond. /news/2025-08-scientists-superdiamonds-theoretically-hexagonal-crystal.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:30:04 EDT news673518320 A collaborative research team has successfully developed designer enzymes that exhibit both intrinsic and extrinsic functions by transplanting a synthetic trinuclear zinc center into a human cytokine. /news/2025-07-human-cytokine-equipped-abiotic-multinuclear.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:07:03 EDT news673178821 Scientists at the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) and the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) at Paderborn University have developed a powerful open-source software tool that allows them to simulate light behavior in quantum systems. /news/2025-07-source-quantum-physics-results.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:46:40 EDT news673105596 The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery—and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a survey in the journal Nature said Wednesday. /news/2025-07-physicists-quantum-world-years.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:59:06 EDT news673099141 Chemical research is often a process of trial and error. Things often don't go as expected in the laboratory: reactions stall or produce too little product. Knowledge of the chemical properties of the substances involved is then no longer sufficient. Instead, chemists would like to look deeper into the reaction, down to the subatomic level. /news/2025-07-quantum-chemistry-reveals-electron-behavior.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:30:01 EDT news673088069 Quantum computers, devices that can perform computations relying on the principles of quantum mechanics, are expected to outperform classical computers on some types of optimization and processing tasks. While physicists and engineers have introduced various quantum computing systems over the past decades, reliably scaling these systems so that they can tackle real-world problems while correcting errors arising during computations has so far proved challenging. /news/2025-07-modular-network-fault-tolerant-scaling.html Superconductivity Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:30:01 EDT news672917963 Used as a versatile material in industry and health care, magnesium oxide may also be a good candidate for quantum technologies. Research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and published in npj Computational Materials reveals a defect in the mineral that could be useful for quantum applications. /news/2025-07-thousands-defects-magnesium-oxide-qubit.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:26:17 EDT news672999972 Known for their ability to seamlessly integrate into semiconductor chips, VCSELs (vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers) are used in everything from computer mice to face-scanning hardware in smartphones. However, these devices are still very much an active field of research, and many researchers believe there are still important applications waiting to be discovered. /news/2025-07-approach-enables-independent-lasers-cooperate.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:05:40 EDT news672987925 Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These range from the miniaturization and efficiency of electronic devices to waste-heat recovery systems, as well as the lifespan of thermal shields for aerospace applications. /news/2025-07-hybrid-crystal-glass-materials-meteorites.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Soft Matter Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:59:02 EDT news672937136 Usually, light waves can pass through each other without any resistance. According to the laws of electrodynamics, two light beams can exist in the same place without influencing each other; they simply overlap. Light saber battles, as seen in science fiction films, would therefore be rather boring in reality. /news/2025-07-physicists-tensor-mesons-play-important.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:40:08 EDT news672924606 Imagine having a super-powered lens that uncovers hidden secrets of ultra-thin materials used in our gadgets. Research led by University of Florida engineering professor Megan Butala enables a novel way to look at the atomic structure of thin films on single-crystal substrates. /news/2025-07-machine-tool-reveals-atomic-ultra.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:40:04 EDT news672916410