2+ hour, 19+ min ago  (885+ words) A single-celled organism provides an excellent metaphor for what quantum mechanics says about the world. Robert P Crease and Gino Elia explain Quantum mechanics is so full of strange phenomena that it's not surprising that physicists have had to dream…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (236+ words) The researchers chose to explore states that are physically relevant across different areas of quantum physics, allowing them to probe entanglement patterns relevant to quantum simulation, communication and computation. In this sense, the system expands the experimental toolbox available to…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (278+ words) Using this model, the KIT team isolated approximately 510 000 chemical formulae and 3 600 000 concepts from the 221 000 abstracts in their database " an average of 2. 3 chemical formulae and 16. 3 concepts per abstract. After removing duplicates, these numbers dropped to around 52 000 unique formulae and 1 241 000 unique concepts....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (389+ words) Machine-learning could help us use cosmic muons to peer inside large objects such as nuclear reactors. Developed by researchers in China, the technique is capable of identifying target materials such as uranium even if they are coated with other materials....

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (370+ words) Scientists in the US have unveiled a new machine-learning tool that, they claim, can identify disruptive scientific breakthroughs. They say their method, which assesses how much a paper reshapes its field, is better than other techniques at spotting such disruptions…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (333+ words) At the American Physical Society's Global Physics Summit in Denver, a session on "Navigating the AI revolution: future-proofing your science career" drew in a crowd of early-stage physicists searching for practical career advice. What they received was much more philosophical…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (151+ words) Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social-media platforms, collecting feedback and other third-party features. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (448+ words) An analysis of more than 5. 2 million papers in 5000 different journals has revealed a dramatic rise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in academic writing across all scientific disciplines, especially physics. However, the analysis has revealed a big gap…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (385+ words) Physics World spoke to team co-leader Quansheng Wu to learn more about this new tool and how it can benefit the materials research community. The platform works by taking the atomic structure of materials and mathematically mapping it into a…...

10+ mon, 2+ day ago  (326+ words) New works presents a unified theoretical framework to describe particles and waves in non-Hermitian systems, potentially leading to major advancements in condensed matter physics Historically, the majority of studies in condensed matter physics have focused on Hermitian systems " closed systems…...