2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (339+ words) Researchers at Monash University have now refuted that assumption. The study, led by PhD candidate Sam Foster, predicts that under the right conditions, bosons and fermions can form stable, self-bound ‘quantum droplets’. The droplets are held together not by normal…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (427+ words) 3D occupancy maps divide space into regions that are occupied, free, or unexplored, helping robots understand their surroundings. But building high‑fidelity maps usually demands a lot of power, which limits small, battery‑driven devices. A team of researchers at MIT…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (523+ words) Despite being exquisite and self-consistent, many of its core predictions have remained beyond experimental reach and have not been directly verified. In a breakthrough experiment, an international team of physicists used a quantum simulator for the first time to detect…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (611+ words) Complicated behaviors don’t just appear suddenly; instead, they form by combining simpler mental components. In artificial intelligence, neural networks can already mix and match specialized modules to handle difficult tasks. But the major mystery is this: does the human brain…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (451+ words) Long before dark sunspots appear on the Sun’s surface, subtle signals ripple beneath. Once these latent percolations are complete, it signals the emergence of active regions, highly magnetically concentrated locales from which solar flares and eruptions can occur. Now, researchers…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (358+ words) Think: use ONLY sound to move minuscule machines! This is the promise of acoustic actuation, a jiggly way to commandeer robots from afar. Sound waves push cells, bubbles, and particles around in liquids, making it possible to wirelessly power microrobots....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (421+ words) Back in 2005, a groundbreaking study from the University of Zurich suggested that oxytocin, a hormone known for shaping social interactions, could make people more trusting. In a controlled experiment, giving oxytocin by nasal spray increased the amount of money that…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (147+ words) But the researchers demonstrated that Polarization entanglement can still emerge even if sunlight is incoherent in space or time. A custom-built solar concentrator collected light over 1.4 m² and funneled it into a fiber thinner than a human hair, delivering enough power…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (373+ words) At the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Brazil, the BESIII Collaboration announced what may be one of the most important discoveries in particle physics in decades. After fifteen years of painstaking research, they identified the X(2370) particle as…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (406+ words) Imagine everyday objects that can talk back to you, not with electronics or screens, but simply by changing how they look when you use them. That’s exactly what MIT researchers have achieved with their new ShiftLens 3D-printing system. Instead of…...