A Scientific Research Vault
There are places on the Moon that haven’t seen sunlight in over two billion years. Deep craters near the lunar south pole, their floors permanently in shadow, sit at temperatures close to -250°C. By the way, this is way colder than Pluto’s surface.
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Isn’t quantum computing a loneliness problem? Not the loneliness of the researchers (though I’m sure those late nights in the lab can be isolating). I’m talking about the loneliness of quantum bits themselves. See, quantum computers are like islands, powerful, sophisticated islands, but islands nonetheless. A single quantum processor might hold thousands of qubits, which sounds impressive until you realize that the really transformative applications people dream about, the ones that could crack previously unsolvable problems, might need millions or even billions of qubits working together.
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In the world of physics, few discoveries challenge our intuition as much as the idea that light could travel at different speeds depending on its direction. For decades, efforts to demonstrate nonreciprocal group delay have been hindered by excessive losses and limited effects. Yet a recent breakthrough in cavity magnonics has achieved a significant demonstration of this phenomenon, without violating fundamental laws like the Kramers–Kronig relations. This discovery taps into the fascinating hybrid interaction between photons and magnons, leveraging magnism to manipulate light in ways previously out of reach.
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The man from Missouri should have been dead by spring 2023. By the time a medical helicopter delivered him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital on a rolling bed of tubes and machines, his body was already struggling to survive. What started as a seasonal flu had curdled into a resistant infection that was essentially melting his lungs from the inside.
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Each one of us, sometimes or the other has this weird habit or maybe obsession of checking if we’ve locked the front door or not. You check once, locked. Check again, still locked. Third check. Fourth check. By the tenth check, you’re not actually discovering anything new, yet you can’t shake the doubt. For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, this scenario is almost… daily. These individuals aren’t indecisive because they can’t think clearly. Instead, recent neuroscience research reveals that their brains struggle to update beliefs based on new information. A study…
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