Category: 4. Physics

January 21, 2025• Physics 18, 14

Researchers predict that having extra sets of chromosomes can both speed up and slow down the evolution of an organism, depending on the organism’s “fitness landscape.”

January 17, 2025• Physics 18, 13

Measurements of grains flowing down an inclined plane have uncovered general principles that may help researchers model rockslides and other granular flows.

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January 17, 2025• Physics 18, 12

The experiment provided further proof of the reality of photons, yet Millikan didn’t accept their existence until later in his career.

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January 16, 2025• Physics 18, s7

Researchers have built an optical clock using an array of trapped ions—an architecture that can be scaled up to boost the clock’s precision.

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Improving the precision of optical clocks depends on…

January 16, 2025• Physics 18, s8

Researchers find that two types of biological magnetic sensor can sense fields close to the quantum limit, a finding that could guide the design of lab-made devices.

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January 16, 2025• Physics 18, 11

Researchers predict the existence of a class of particles that behave differently from those already known.

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January 15, 2025• Physics 18, s4

A new model reveals that bursts of neural activity known as critical avalanches underlie the brain’s ability to respond consistently to stimuli.

According to the “critical brain hypothesis,” the…

January 15, 2025• Physics 18, 10

A cryogenic microscope reveals the atomic-scale processes that disrupt the charge-ordered state in a material as the temperature rises.

January 14, 2025• Physics 18, s9

Researchers have measured graphene’s plasmon spectrum using a novel electron-based spectroscopy technique.

Light-based instruments that probe electronic quasiparticles in few-atom-thick material…

January 14, 2025• Physics 18, 8

The discovery of an isotope, rutherfordium-252, whose ground state forestalls fission for just 60 nanoseconds, could help theorists understand the cosmic synthesis of superheavy elements.

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