4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (214+ words) The batteries last more than 12,000 charge cycles, meaning they could one day dethrone lithium-ion alternatives. “People often think of modern nanotechnology tools as complicated and high-tech, but our approach is surprisingly simple and straightforward,” said study coauthor Maher El-Kady, PhD,…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (326+ words) Indefinite causal order let physicists reverse a rule of nature, then confirm it with a split light beam. Explorations like this aim to bring quantum and classical physics closer to a unified theory of gravity. For instance, while ICO explains…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (295+ words) Scientists long thought this pricey piece of carbon held no piezoelectric properties, but a new study says that isn’t the case. And while that’s true for bulk diamonds, a team of researchers from the University of Hong Kong wondered if…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (272+ words) The object is so dense that physics itself starts behaving in strange, unfamiliar ways. A team of scientists believes they’ve identified the true nature of the small red dots that are popping up on many images of the farthest reaches…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (369+ words) • Quantum computers require extremely cold temperatures to maintain coherence, but creating a refrigerator big enough to scale with all the hardware and wiring isn’t easy. • IBM announced earlier this month the creation of a modular system that relies on dilution…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (99+ words) Diamonds are well-known as the hardest, naturally-occurring mineral on Earth, but they’re still as brittle as glass. Well, not anymore. Divers Raised Henry VIII’s Lost Warship A Sacred Well Hid Something Nobody Expected We’re on Track for Reaching Singularity by…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (244+ words) Popular Mechanics Antarctica’s Strange Fossilized Egg A mysterious fossil from Antarctica has been identified as the largest soft-shelled egg ever discovered—and the second-largest known egg of any kind. A Record-Breaking Ancient Egg About 68 million years ago, near the end…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (969+ words) It isn’t as groundbreaking as its predecessor but may be worth a look if it’s your first foldable. Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold isn’t as groundbreaking as its predecessor, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. Instead, the fourth-generation foldable Pixel follows the same…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (172+ words) X(2370) has long been a leading candidate for a “glueball”—a hypothetical particle made almost entirely of gluons. “The radiative decay of the J/ψ meson is a gluon-rich process and is therefore regarded as an ideal place for searching…...