Scientists have used electrical pulses to manipulate magnetic information into a polarized light signal, a discovery that could revolutionize long-distance optical telecommunications, including between Earth and Mars.
Condensed Matter
Mar 28, 2024
1
138
Quantum imaging is a growing field that takes advantage of the counterintuitive and "spooky" ability of light particles, or photons, to become linked, or entangled, under specialized circumstances. If the state of one photon ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 20, 2024
0
54
Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in controlling the polarization of light, a crucial property for various applications such as augmented reality, data storage, and encryption.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 11, 2024
0
18
The Space Climate Research Group at the University of Oulu, Finland has been studying the effects of energetic particle precipitation from space, more commonly known as the aurora borealis or Northern Lights, on winter weather ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 16, 2024
2
160
A team of experimentalists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and theorists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has succeeded for the first time in populating and stabilizing a new type of molecule, ...
General Physics
Jan 31, 2024
0
254
Over the past few days, extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather have swept southward into much of the U.S., breaking daily low-temperature records from Montana to Texas. Tens of millions of people have been affected ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2024
0
65
The exploitation of polarization or charge separation in ferroelectric materials has led to remarkable advances in various fields, such as the development of new ultrasound diagnostic devices. Prominently, these ferroelectric ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 26, 2023
0
15
How can Marvel movie character Ant-Man produce such strong energy out of his small body? The secret lies in the transistors on his suit that amplify weak signals for processing. Transistors that amplify electrical signals ...
Nanophysics
Apr 14, 2023
0
84
Cambridge researchers have discovered a new topological phase in a two-dimensional system, which could be used as a new platform for exploring topological physics in nanoscale devices.
Nanophysics
Mar 29, 2023
0
373
Mars is infamous for its intense dust storms, some of which kick up enough dust to be seen by telescopes on Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
0
168
