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Simulations Suggest Flu Virus Vulnerability

Studies of influenza A’s unusual propulsion strategy suggest that drugs could target a critical protein. Read More »

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Watching Crystallization Advance

Experiments with colloidal particles have uncovered conditions where an intermediate layer that separates a crystallizing liquid from its solid forms. Read More »

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Cracking the Challenge of Quantum Error Correction

Researchers at Google Quantum AI have demonstrated “below-threshold” error correction, a necessary condition for building noise-resistant quantum computers that are sufficiently large to perform useful computations. Read More »

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A Laser Casts a Shadow

Through its interactions with a crystal, light becomes an opaque object—an effect that could be harnessed in applications. Read More »

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Quantum Radar over Long Distances

A proposed remote-sensing scheme could potentially probe targets hundreds of kilometers away and uses one of the strangest quantum properties of light. Read More »

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Spotting the Scars of Spacetime

Scientists have devised a way to use current gravitational-wave detectors to observe permanent deformations of spacetime caused by certain supernovae. Read More »

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A Toroidal Mode in an Excited Nucleus

Nuclear scattering data suggest the possible observation of a predicted but never-observed nuclear vibration. Read More »

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Enter the Mechanical Qubit

The demonstration of the first fully functioning mechanical qubit offers a new platform for quantum information processing and could lead to ultraprecise gravity sensors. Read More »

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Alignment of Cells Affects Secondary Tumor Growth

Cell–cell alignment and a background of stationary cells together shape the emergence of cellular clusters in a primary tumor. Read More »

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