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Most comprehensive study yet of the Higgs boson at CMS
The largest combined study of Higgs boson production and decay to date using data from the CMS experiment finds no significant deviations from theory
Real-time multi-gas sensing
Detecting several gases at once is crucial in areas such as environmental monitoring, industrial physics and fault diagnosis in electrical equipment. Methane is a key sign of natur...
Voltage switches exciton transport in 2D hybrid material
Researchers demonstrate electrical control over exciton transport and valley polarisation in a perovskite-WS₂ heterostructure
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A new way to study giant gravitons
A defect framework unlocks difficult calculations in N = 4 super Yang-Mills
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How do you design an invisibility cloak?
A new metamaterial design rule shows how simple steady-field patterns can be turned into a method for controlling complex waves
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Using AI to plan for climate variability in renewable energy systems
A new AI approach shows how batteries and hydrogen can improve renewable energy reliability
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Real-number quantum theory can be more wrong than you thought
Imaginary numbers first appeared in the 16th century as a mathematical invention, introduced to solve equations that real numbers could not. As the name implies, many treated them...
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Optical vortices provide a natural way to create topologies
New work suggests that building nontrivial topologies around optical vortices could be a better strategy than engineering delicate polarisation patterns across an entire beam
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Resolving an exciton debate
Researchers disentangle two competing mechanisms that govern how a promising semiconductor material responds to light
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Tuning frustrated magnetism with stress
Uniaxial stress induces a new magnetic phase in PdCrO₂, revealing strong coupling between magnetic order, electronic structure and lattice elasticity
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Probing quantum critical points
A new Quantum Monte Carlo method reveals distinct entanglement signatures of different quantum critical points
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Improved QLEDs with Machine Learning
Machine learning identified solvent formulations that produce highly homogeneous quantum dot films
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Quantum computers may pay a price for keeping time
A quantum computer that runs itself using an internal clock can only compute accurately if that clock is precise, and that precision comes with a thermodynamic cost
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A new route to perfect energy absorption
A fundamental physics discovery could help reduce energy losses in future wireless power technologies
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Do exceptional-point sensors really measure better?
New research shows that sensors based on exceptional points can beat ordinary sensors in ideal quantum-limited measurements, but only if the light input, loss rate, and the pertur...
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