Quote of the Week
“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow."
Vincent van GoghTODAY'S BRIGHTER SIDE NEWS
Physicists convert microwaves to light helping quantum computers communicate over optical networks
Magnons and excitons inside CrSBr coherently transfer microwave information onto reflected light across a 300 MHz bandwidth.
Stanford physicists observe a quantum jump of sound for the first time
A microscopic resonator stayed in one vibrational energy state before abruptly dropping to zero, exposing the quantum nature of sound.
Stellar destruction reveals a universal rule for black hole jet formation
Stellar disruptions reveal a shared jet-launching threshold that appears to span millions-fold differences in black hole mass.
Genetic ‘barcodes’ could explain why chromosomes recognize one another
Repetitive DNA and the D1 protein help matching fruit fly chromosomes recognize one another before eggs form.