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Northwestern physicists controlled a single positron’s quantum states, advancing efforts to compare matter and antimatter with greater precision.
Northwestern’s positron quantum cyclotron reveals individual energy and spin changes, preparing the way for more precise comparisons of matter and antimatter.
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Sunset over Bolotana, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia.
HealthThe Sardinian village of Bolotana may be a new blue zone for womenRebecca Shavit
Copper-oxide superconductivity gains a magnetic explanation, but the highest transition temperatures still need another ingredient.
DiscoveriesScientists may have found the key to one of quantum physics’ biggest mysteries: superconductivityJoseph Shavit
A bacterial compound changes how Candida uses glucose, weakening a shape shift linked to dangerous infections.
HealthScientists discover a bacterial molecule that tricks deadly fungi into starvingJoshua Shavit
Pixel Cake. A layered confection composed of modular edible units arranged through computational design and assembled by hand. The work illustrates how artistic meaning can emerge through the interplay of digital organization, material transformation, and embodied experience, rather than residing solely in the finished object.
AIThe age of AI is forcing humanity to rethink what it means to be creativeShy Cohen
Ten-minute NASA satellite scans help scientists investigate how lightning produces pollution and changes atmospheric chemistry.
Green ImpactNASA satellite tracks the pollution lightning leaves behindJoshua Shavit
Accelerating pulses in SN 2024afav support a newborn magnetar model involving a wobbling disk and relativistic frame-dragging.
SpaceAstronomers discover rare evidence of Einstein’s relativity playing out in a cosmic explosionJoseph Shavit
Water mist and gas running through an ultrasound tube emitted by 256 speakers.
InnovationsInvisible ultrasound tube can transport solids, liquids, gases through mid-airShy Cohen
A self-made bacterial hydrogel can push cells from dying biofilms and may offer a new path for disrupting resistant communities.
HealthScientists discover bacteria that sacrifice their own cells for survivalRebecca Shavit
A palladium-coated membrane captured six PFAS and broke carbon-fluorine bonds during a 58-day lab test, with 83% defluorination.
Green ImpactNew palladium-coated membrane captured and destroyed 99% of forever chemicalsJoshua Shavit
An artist’s concept of JAXA’s MMX spacecraft during its Mars’ orbit insertion. The Martian moon Phobos, which MMX will explore and sample, is in the background.
SpaceJapan launches MMX to bring home the first samples from a moon of MarsJoseph Shavit
Atmospheric models suggest Uranus and Neptune formed from different ingredients, but uncertain mixing leaves their origins open.
SpaceNeptune and Uranus appear to have significantly different chemical originsJoseph Shavit
A pig kidney recovered partial function after a year at −150°C, but long-term transplant survival remains untested.
HealthMagnetic nanoparticles rewarm and restore function to pig kidneys one year after cryogenic storageJoseph Shavit
Nivedita Arora Breed Chair Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science wearing the GlassTENG prototype.
HealthSmart glasses turn blinks and jaw movements into precise health monitoringJoseph Shavit
Frozen molecular samples illustrate experiments comparing how thymine and uracil respond to ultraviolet light, offering clues to the chemistry behind DNA’s evolution.
HealthDNA’s vulnerability to sunlight may explain the complex origins of intelligent lifeRebecca Shavit
IBM Quantum Heron quantum processing unit in hand. Repeated measurements and resets controlled chaos across 100 qubits, testing hardware capabilities relevant to future error correction.
DiscoveriesScientists take a major step toward quantum computers that correct their own errorsShy Cohen
Lunar fault mapping indicates the moon’s radius shrank about 45 meters during a late stage of cooling and contraction.
SpaceTen thousand faults reveal how the Moon’s radius shrank by about 45 metersJoseph Shavit