Magnon lifetime extended nearly 100x
Vienna-led physicists stretched magnon lifetimes to 18 microseconds, turning the tiny magnetic waves into viable quantum-information carriers that could shrink quantum computers to penny size.
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Ultra-faint dwarf galaxy found near Andromeda
Astronomers identified And 35 (Andromeda XXXVI), a 12.5-billion-year-old dwarf galaxy so dim only 46 of its stars have been detected so far.
Physicists reverse the quantum arrow of time
Los Alamos researchers built control protocols that use measurement and feedback to make quantum systems appear to run backward in time.
SpaceX lofts 81 satellites in rideshare flight
A Falcon 9 launched 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday, then landed its booster on a ship at sea.
Scientists propose a lunar quarantine lab
Researchers urge NASA to build a robotic biocontainment facility on the Moon to screen Mars and asteroid samples before they ever reach Earth.
Light switch wakes dormant cancer cells
ETH Zurich scientists engineered a light-activated molecule that rouses sleeping lung-cancer cells from their protective state, making them vulnerable to treatment.