An inhomogeneous Dirac cone system gives rise to in-plane chiral Landau levels

a, The chiral zeroth Landau levels exhibit distinctive chiral transport characteristics. By introducing an inhomogeneous effective mass that linearly depends on the coordinate, the Dirac cone system generates a synthetic…

Laser pulse creates exotic order in quantum material

A layered crystal on a sample carrier made of gold. The material studied consists of thin layers of tantalum and sulfur atoms stacked in loose association. The image displays a…

Light supergiant reveals a missing evolutionary stage

Artist’s impression of the discovered massive binary system consisting of a stripped star in the background and a Be star in the foreground. Although the stripped star appears bigger, it…

Shipping catches up – Climate Weekly

Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events Eight years after Bhutan set the world’s first net zero…

Tuberculosis on the rise for first time in decades after COVID-19 interrupted public health interventions and increased inequality

Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted public…

‘Chorus’ of Gravitational Waves Found

Gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of time-space predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago, are permeating the universe at low frequencies, according to a multiyear National Science…

When this therapist recommends self-care, it’s not self-indulgence

As a psychotherapist and wellness consultant with clients from New York to New Zealand, Aishia Grevenberg is happy to recommend self-care. But don’t expect it to end in a day…

Musk threatens lawsuit as Twitter rival Threads takes off

Threads is Meta’s rival to Twitter. Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site…

Super-efficient short ‘smart corn’ capable of denser planting gets green light from USDA

Bayer AG’s genetically modified corn has received safety approval from the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The shorter-stature corn plants, known as the Smart Corn System, are designed to be…

What is Threads? All your questions about Meta’s new Twitter rival, answered

This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta’s new app Threads. Meta unveiled the app to rival Twitter, targeting users looking for an alternative to the…