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Meetings: Building Opportunities for Palestinian Science
Physicists gathered in the West Bank to discuss research trends, as well as ways to boost scientific collaboration in the region. Read More »
Synopsis: How to Create a Ghost Chemical Bond
A series of electric and magnetic pulses applied to an atom could cause one of its electrons to behave as if “bonded” to an empty point in space. Read More »
Viewpoint: Fast-Forwarding the Search for New Particles
A proposed machine-learning approach could speed up the analysis that underlies searches for new particles in high-energy collisions. Read More »
Synopsis: Ghost Imaging with Electrons
Ghost imaging—a sensitive imaging technique previously demonstrated with visible and x-ray light—has been extended to electrons. Read More »
Viewpoint: Constructing a Theory for Amorphous Solids
Theorists are coming closer to a comprehensive description of the mechanics of solids with an amorphous structure, such as glass, cement, and compacted sand. Read More »
Focus: More Energy from Ocean Waves
A new structure concentrates water wave motion and could lead to improved techniques for harvesting this renewable energy resource. Read More »
Synopsis: Detection of a Zigzag Wigner Crystal
Using a nanowire with controllable width, researchers have created a type of Wigner crystal in which electrons form an ordered zigzag pattern. Read More »
Synopsis: Fish Eye Lens Could Entangle Atoms
An optical design called Maxwell’s fish eye lens could produce quantum entanglement between atoms separated by an arbitrary distance, new calculations show. Read More »
Synopsis: Climate Noise Has Shades of Pink
Temperatures on Earth’s surface exhibit “pink noise”—a finding that could explain the global warming hiatus in the first decade of this century. Read More »
