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A solid-state quantum memory stored single photons for 180 microseconds while preserving nonclassical correlations.
Radiofrequency pulses kept a crystal quantum memory coherent long enough to preserve individual photons across metropolitan-scale link times.
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Adults who played Zelda and Yoshi games reported less loneliness, though the study cannot prove the games caused it.
DiscoveriesPlaying alone does not necessarily mean feeling lonely, gaming study findsRebecca Shavit
MIT neuroscientists found flexible neuron clusters that can store different kinds of information during a task.
HealthMIT study finds brain circuits may work like reusable building blocks for thoughtJoshua Shavit
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission found that Bennu shares a distinctive isotopic fingerprint with asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites.
SpaceAsteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thoughtJoseph Shavit
Artist's visualization of an early galaxy and its surrounding gaseous environment. The orange structures represent metal-enriched gas being expelled from the galaxy, illustrating how young galaxies began dispersing heavy elements into their surroundings within the universe's first 500 million years. The visualization is based on publicly available FIRE-2 cosmological simulation data and is not a direct telescope image.
SpaceJWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and lifeJoseph Shavit
People detected buried objects through sand before contact, revealing a previously undocumented form of remote touch in humans.
HealthHumans possess a ‘seventh sense’ that detects hidden objectsJoseph Shavit
A University of Reading study finds ozone recovery and air pollution may contribute 40% more warming than previously estimated, making ozone the second-largest driver of future climate change after carbon dioxide.
Green ImpactOzone layer recovery comes with an unexpected climate consequenceJoseph Shavit
The Moon is magnetically quiet today, but a buried volcanic structure on its far side may preserve evidence of a very different past.
SpaceBuried volcanic structure suggests that our Moon once had a powerful magnetic fieldJoseph Shavit
A new study shows pramipexole, a Parkinson’s drug, may help people with depression regain motivation, pleasure, and daily engagement.
HealthParkinson’s drug helps restore pleasure and motivation in depression patientsJoshua Shavit
Artistic rendering of string-breaking. A 13-ion quantum simulator reproduced string breaking and revealed an unexpected route to particle-pair formation.
DiscoveriesQuantum computer simulates how stored energy can become new particlesShy Cohen
A photo of a new species of sea spider Tanystylum kiixin with eggs shown forming along the limbs.
DiscoveriesHairy legs and red eyes: Two bizarre new sea spiders found in British Columbia’s Salish SeaJoshua Shavit
Removing nearly all of Earth’s magnetic field altered mitochondria, movement and survival in healthy and Parkinson’s-model fruit flies.
HealthEarth’s magnetic field is influencing how we age, study findsJoseph Shavit
Researchers at Lund University developed a blood test that detects tiny traces of tumor DNA long before breast cancer recurrence becomes visible.
HealthBlood test detects breast cancer more than a year before scansJoseph Shavit
Models suggest stable environments for prebiotic chemistry emerged around 4.33 billion years ago as devastating impacts declined.
Green ImpactNew 3D model finds Earth may have become ready for life 4.33 billion years agoJoshua Shavit
Scientists at UC Riverside found that quantum chips can be linked into larger fault-tolerant systems even when connections are significantly noisier than the chips themselves, bringing scalable quantum computing closer to reality.
DiscoveriesFuture quantum computers may be built like modular data centersJoshua Shavit
The illustration shows how Jupiter uses a series of regions called shocklets to interact with the solar wind and slow it before it reaches the planet’s main bow shock.
SpaceNASA’s Juno reveals how Jupiter’s giant magnetic shield absorbs the solar windJoseph Shavit
Kenneth Loi shows how VIPR RNA (in pink) snakes around the double helix of DNA (yellow and green) to form a unique triplex structure.
HealthScientists find an ancient predecessor of CRISPR hiding in virusesJoshua Shavit