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BYLINE: By Jeremy Levy and Andrew Daley Newswise — A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering transdisciplinary collaborations that bridge physics, chemistry, and biology to tackle fundamental questions. In the late 1990s, Ron Naaman at…
BYLINE: Aliyah Kovner Newswise — Scientists have generated the shortest pulses of high-energy X-rays to date by using a powerful laser to stimulate inner shell electrons – the electrons closest to an atomic nucleus. These extremely short pulses, clocking in at 60-100 attoseconds (quintillionths of a second), could be used to study quantum-scale phenomena that…
Newswise — Twenty-five years ago tonight, at just about 9 p.m. in Upton, New York, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), began colliding gold ions for the first time. The startup of this flagship U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory marked the beginning of a new…
Newswise — A $21 million gift from philanthropist Thea Berggren to the University of Chicago will establish the Berggren Center for Quantum Biology and Medicine, launching a bold scientific field that merges quantum technology with biology to transform the future of medicine. This pioneering, interdisciplinary effort seeks to harness the power of quantum engineering —…
Newswise — Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the human brain, is considered as the next-generation paradigm for artificial intelligence (AI), offering dramatically increased speed and lower energy consumption. While software-based artificial neural networks (ANNs) have made remarkable strides, unlocking their full potential calls for physical platforms that combine ultrafast operation, high computational density, energy efficiency, and…
BYLINE: Chris Patrick Newswise — In this International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, physicists worldwide are celebrating a century since the establishment of quantum mechanics. The celebration has brought to the forefront the concepts of how tiny particles that make up the ubiquitous atom give rise to our visible universe. It is also highlighting that…
BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — Scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have released their third and final measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly. This value is related to g-2, the experiment’s namesake measurement. The final result agrees with their published results from 2021…
Newswise — Particle physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have released the third and final measurements of a mysterious “wobbling” of a subatomic particle called a muon (pronounced mew-on), which is similar to an electron but with 200 times more mass. The results offer the most precise measurement to date…
The Science Newswise — The ultrafast motion of electrons is the fundamental mechanism for chemical reactions. These reactions are at the core of many natural processes, including photosynthesis and radiation damage to DNA. Observing the motion of electrons at the atomic scale requires precisely synchronized flashes of X-ray radiation shorter than a femtosecond, or one quadrillionth of a second….
BYLINE: Jamie Oberdick Newswise — UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability causing it to bend and snap on itself made it nearly impossible to produce at all, let alone…
