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New forms of photons open doors to advanced optical technologies

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Multiple photonic orbitals emerge within a photonic crystal superlattice. Credit: Physical assessment B (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.235141 Researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands have gained important insights into photons, the elementary particles that make up light. They ‘behave’ in an astonishingly greater variety than electrons that surround atoms, while also being much easier … Read more

This is the hardest maze, according to physicists

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A team of physicists have created what they claim is the most difficult maze ever created, using a chess pattern to create its structure. To the untrained eye, the maze looks like the most complicated snowflake. But for the puzzle enthusiasts among us, it probably looks like a challenge. The maze is constructed from a … Read more

Some of the oldest life forms on Earth can live on hydrogen. What it means

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Sydney, Australia: Three quarters of all matter in the universe consists of hydrogen. The early Earth was also rich in hydrogen, thanks to intense geological and volcanic activity. Just as stars burn hydrogen to produce heat and light through nuclear reactions, life emerged by extracting energy from this simple molecule through chemical reactions. Some of … Read more

Giant ‘invisible’ life forms have been discovered in the remote Arctic lurking on Greenland’s ice sheet – The Debrief

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Scientists have made an unexpected discovery on Greenland’s Arctic ice cap. As the frozen environment awakens in spring after months spent in darkness each year, signs of life begin to return to Greenland’s icy landscape. Several large animals, including the region’s polar bears, arctic terns and musk oxen, begin to move as sunlight warms the … Read more