Quantum thermometer uses giant Rydberg atoms to measure temperature more accurately

Laboratory setup for using giant “Rydberg” atoms to measure temperature. The glowing red orb shows the cloud of approximately one million rubidium atoms used in the setup. Credit: N. Schlossberger/NIST…

Carlos Matallana-Puerto ¡Los tricomas resbaladizos influyen en el éxito reproductivo de las flores trampa! (Español) – Functional Ecologists

En este nuevo post, Carlos Matallana-Puerto, doctorando de la Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brasil), presenta su trabajo “Sex, flies, and flower trap: trapping trichomes and their function in polination“. Habla…

CMS tests whether top quarks play by Einstein’s rules

The CMS detector. Credit: CERN In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere to Einstein’s special…

TESS and JWST unveil disintegrating planetary interiors

After Trump quit, Bloomberg promises to fill US funding gap to UN

The announcement comes after Trump said the US should “immediately cease or revoke” any financial commitment made under the UNFCCC American billionaire Michael Bloomberg has announced that his philanthropy and…

Mole or marsupial? This subterranean critter with a backward pouch is both

Evolving a dig-in-the-dark mole lifestyle comes with radical anatomical changes, making it hard even to guess the animal’s closest relatives. That’s why the true identity of Australia’s most enigmatic and…

FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial color’s health risks and long history

Red 3 – also called FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine or E127 – has been widely used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals since its FDA approval in 1969. You’ve likely…

A new method to fabricate soft electronics via particle engulfment printing

Soft sensors engulfed on A4-size elastomer. Credit: Rongzhou Lin. The electronics industry has been rapidly advancing over the past few decades, leading to the development of countless devices of different…

Risk preference is governed by different hypothalamus–habenula circuits, study finds

Task structure of the two-alternative choice task employed by the team. After a 1-s baseline (BL) period, an auditory tone indicates the start of the DP (arrow and black vertical…

Poor coal-reliant provinces in South Africa behind on just transition

South Africa has a national strategy, funded by donors, to support a fair shift to cleaner energy – but regional plans and those of multinationals and cities remain patchy All…