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High-speed electron camera discovers new ‘light-distorting’ behavior in ultra-thin material

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Snapshot taken by SLAC’s High Speed ​​Electron Camera, an ultrashort electron diffraction (MeV-UED) instrument, showing evidence of circular polarization of terahertz light through an ultrathin sample of tungsten ditelluride. Source: Nano letters (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00758 While taking snapshots with the high-speed electron camera at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory, researchers discovered new … Read more

Soapbox: How does your personality influence your gaming behavior?

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Image: Roy Smoothe / Pexels Soapbox features allow our individual writers and contributors to share their opinions on hot topics and random things they’ve been munching on. Today, Nathan looks at how his analytical mind and love of data influences his downtime… I am the oldest of four brothers. For the past four years, we … Read more

The migration behavior of starlings appears to be hereditary and not learned

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To find out how migratory birds find their way, sparrows were translocated from autumn stopovers along the Dutch North Sea coast to Switzerland (red, 1948–1957) and Spain (blue, 1959–1962). Source: Biology Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0217 Young, naive starlings search for their wintering areas independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are very social birds all year round, … Read more

The surprising behavior of black holes in an expanding universe

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Credit: AI-generated image A physicist who studies black holes has discovered that in an expanding universe, Einstein’s equations require that the rate of expansion of the universe at the event horizon of each black hole must be constant, and the same for all black holes. This in turn means that the only energy on the … Read more

A high-temperature superconductor with no resistance that exhibits strange metallic behavior

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! by Ingrid Fadelli, Phys.org The left image shows the diamond anvil cell used in this study for high-pressure measurements, where the sample is surrounded by a pressure-transmitting fluid; the right image shows the resistance curve at 20.5 GPa, a perfect … Read more

Same-sex behavior among animals is underreported, study shows | CNN

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Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Two male African elephants exhibit same-sex sexual behavior in Tsavo, Kenya. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 species, but a new study has found … Read more

Scientists discover new behavior of membranes that could lead to unprecedented separations

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Nanoscale solutes with only small differences in size can be separated by membranes with identical pores – if they have enough opportunities to try. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory. Imagine a basketball game that comes down to the last shot. The chance of the ball going through the hoop may be quite small, but it would … Read more

Investigating the effects of visual distraction during natural behavior using VR technology

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Trade-off between dependence on WM and gathering information from the external world. a Our implicit measure of working memory (WM) use: Copying each object requires its identity and location information (attribute) to be held in memory. Counting successful pick-ups (i.e., identity feature used) and placements (i.e., location feature used) between model fixations provided a measure … Read more

Towards testing the quantum behavior of gravity: a photonic quantum simulation

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! Artist’s representation of the implemented photonic experiment in which entanglement between the polarizations of individual photons is mediated by the independent degree of freedom of the photon path. In particular, mediated entanglement represents a core principle of future experiments with massive particles, … Read more

Towards testing the quantum behavior of gravity: a photonic quantum simulation

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Artist’s representation of the implemented photonic experiment in which entanglement between the polarizations of individual photons is mediated by the independent degree of freedom of the photon path. In particular, mediated entanglement represents a core principle of future experiments with massive particles, aiming to explore the quantumness of gravity for the first time. Credit: Federico … Read more