Read article: Long-lived qubits survive as ‘islands’ in a noisy environment
Discovery could aid the development of quantum computing architectures in which qubits are implanted randomly into a host matrix
Read article: 170-year-old physical law unexpectedly holds true in high-temperature superconductors
Validation of Wiedemann–Franz law in cuprates has implications for electron transport in strongly correlated materials
Read article: Weathering and ocean burial of rocks could have triggered Earth’s ice ages
Layered clays called ophiolites trap carbon efficiently and may still be cooling the planet today
Read article: Flexible implant shows potential to restore vision after retinal degeneration
A soft retinal prosthesis combines flexible ultrathin phototransistor arrays with liquid metal-based stimulation electrodes
Read article: Dark solitons spotted in ring semiconductor lasers
Discovery could boost molecular spectroscopy and integrated optoelectronics
Read article: Machine learning takes hassle out of cold-atom experiments
Reinforcement learning can make cooling apparatus more robust
Read article: FLASH irradiation spares immune cells during proton therapy
Ultrahigh dose rates could reduce the level of immune cell depletion during pencil-beam scanning proton therapy of brain cancer
Read article: Physical forces explain why some COVID variants are more virulent than others
Biomechanical stability of bonds between the spike protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its receptors on human cells helps explain rapid spread of certain variants
Read article: Hair helps keep us cool in hot weather, infrared study reveals
Longer wavelength radiation is emitted easily by hair
Read article: Snapshot of noble gas atoms emerges from within a graphene sandwich
Nanoclusters of krypton and xenon directly imaged at room temperature for the first time thanks to confining layers of graphene
