Many microorganisms are capable of purposeful movement through liquids. But how do they achieve this without a complex nervous system? New research from TU Wien offers intriguing insights. Bacteria can do it. Amoebas can do it. Even your blood…
Category: 4. Physics
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These Brainless Blobs Can Swim Better Than You Think
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MIT Discovers Magnetic Superconductor in Pencil Lead
MIT scientists have identified a bizarre new material: a superconductor that also acts like a magnet. Using a special stacking of graphene layers from graphite, they observed this dual behavior — something thought to be impossible until now….
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Physicists Unveil New Quantum Super Material That Could Revolutionize Electronics
A new quantum material developed at Rice University combines unique symmetry-driven properties with superconductivity. A team of physicists from Rice University, led by Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan, has created a groundbreaking new material that…
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Painted Light Hastens Atom Cloud Production
• Physics 18, s75
Researchers have generated Bose-Einstein condensates with a repetition rate exceeding 2 Hz, a feat that could increase the bandwidth of quantum sensors.
J. S. Haase/Leibniz University Hannover
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Modelling optomechanical responses in optical tweezers beyond paraxial limits
Experimental setup
The schematic of our experimental setup is illustrated in Fig. 1. The setup includes an iris diaphragm positioned at the pupil plane to control the focusing NA of the trapping light [Fig. 1(a)]. Specifically, a continuous-wave…
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GABA, glutamate dynamics and BOLD observed during cognitive processing in psychosis patients with hallucinatory traits
Hugdahl, K. & Sommer, I. E. Auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia from a levels of explanation perspective. Schizophr Bull. 44, 234–241 (2018).
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Observation of ferromagnetic phase in the second moiré band of twisted MoTe2
Device structure and characterization
The tMoTe2 device is fabricated into dual gate structures as shown in Fig. 1a. We adopt similar tear and stack method9,10,11 to fabricate tMoTe2 as used in previous work9,10. Figure 1b shows the schematic…
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Speckle fluctuations reveal dynamics of microparticles in fibrin scaffolds in a model of bacterial infection
Characterizing multiscale dynamics of microparticles in extracellular network with laser speckle fluctuation
We utilize inert polystyrene microparticles to physically model spherical non-motile bacterial cells17,18, as a means to emulate bacterial…
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Directional sound propagation in acoustic artificial structures
Acoustic artificial structures offer capabilities for sound manipulation that are challenging to achieve with conventional materials. These structures can take various forms, including periodic, quasiperiodic, or even disordered distributions….
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Quantum neural networks with data re-uploading for urban traffic time series forecasting
Overview
The main objective of this study is to compare classical against hybrid quantum-classic Neural Network (NN) approaches in a traffic forecasting task. The underlying goal is to evaluate whether quantum layers can offer measurable…
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