Read article: Bacterial nanowires make an electrical grid in the soil
Anaerobic bacteria depend upon a single family of proteins to transfer extra electrons they produce to electric hairs on their surface
Read article: Dielectric laser accelerator creates focused electron beam
Advancements in nanoscience, lasers and vacuum drove breakthrough
Read article: New method pinpoints the 3D location of cold atoms in a lattice
Improvement to quantum gas microscopy gives the position of atoms in all three spatial dimensions, not just two
Read article: Getting closer to measuring quantum gravity
New technique measures the gravitational pull on a micron-scale levitating magnetic particle
Read article: Heat capacity measurements reveal Majorana fermions
Researchers in Japan and Korea say they have found evidence for the existence of these elusive quasiparticles in the thermodynamic behaviour of a Kitaev magnet
Read article: Baryon acoustic oscillations hint that dark energy may have changed over time
DESI observations cast doubt on the Standard Model of cosmology
Read article: Roll-to-roll-fabricated hybrid perovskite solar cells reach record efficiencies
Researchers calculate that large-scale devices would be cheap to produce, too
Read article: Planet-gobbling stars are more common than we thought
Spectral analysis of stellar “twins” also suggests a significant fraction of planetary systems may be unstable
Read article: REBCO high-temperature superconductors are ideal for tokamak magnets, study suggests
Extensive research confirms material’s ability to create compact yet powerful fields
Read article: Quasiparticles called merons appear in a synthetic antiferromagnet for the first time
Collective topological chiral spin textures could lead to new concepts for spintronics devices
