21+ hour, 24+ min ago   (417+ words) Physicists have uncovered an in-plane Hall response that overturns a century-old assumption about how this famous electrical effect works. The discovery could eventually make multidirectional magnetic sensing possible with one tiny device....

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1070+ words) Princeton’s PACMAN AI can control fusion plasma in milliseconds and predict dangerous instabilities before they start. In some fusion energy systems, particles can reach temperatures hotter than the center of the Sun. The challenge is keeping that extreme plasma under…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (902+ words) A provocative new paper suggests consciousness may not be unique to Earth and could arise in alien life forms far stranger than we can imagine. A new philosophical paper argues that consciousness may not be exclusive to life as we…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (566+ words) A self-resetting soft robot can repeatedly jump under infrared light, with simple design changes controlling how and where it moves. A teardrop-shaped soft robot developed at North Carolina State University can keep jumping for as long as infrared light shines…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (16+ words) An ultra-clean crystal surface allowed individual molecules to preserve quantum coherence at the fundamental Fourier limit....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (493+ words) AI detected faint signs of emerging solar active regions about nine hours before they became visible on average....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) Scientists found that phages, viruses that infect bacteria, trigger widespread protein modifications inside host cells that help them evade bacterial immune defenses....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (414+ words) Researchers built a dataset of 1,202 records from 448 papers and screened about 150 million virtual compositions to identify potential materials for future MLCCs and electric vehicle electronics....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (518+ words) Researchers can now put numerical error limits on quantum simulations, showing how much confidence to place in their results. As quantum simulators become powerful enough to tackle problems beyond the reach of conventional computers, a difficult question follows: how can…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (466+ words) Physicists used advanced quantum technologies to test predictions from a decades-old theory. At the point where matter changes from one phase to another, very different materials can suddenly begin following the same mathematical rules. Water approaching a boil and a…...