Image source: CC0 Public Domain Animals move amazing distances in search of food. Caribou, reindeer and wolves cover impressive distances over land, while seabirds fly unparalleled distances. Arctic terns travel …
C2H4 Rotation barrier potential energy surface calculated from CASSCF(12,12)/ACSE, CCSD(T), PBE-RDMFT, SCAN-RDMFT, PBE-DFT, SCAN-DFT and CASSCF(12,12)/tPBE using cc – pVDZ basis set. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.243003 Like …
Graphical representation of stacked, twisted cuprate superconductors, with accompanying data in background. Image credit: Lucy Yip, Yoshi Saito, Alex Cui, Frank Zhao Superconductors have intrigued physicists for decades. But these …
Sketch of a trilobite Rydberg molecule. A Sketch of a Rydberg molecule. The coordinates of Rydberg electrons (blue) and ground-state atoms (green) relative to the Rydberg core (red) are indicated …
R-process nucleosynthesis.Image credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The universe’s first stars were terrifying beasts. Composed only of hydrogen and helium, they may be 300 times more massive than the Sun. …
Artist’s impression of an active supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the early universe. Pop III stars in the early universe were likely the precursors of supermassive black holes. Image source: …
Miscanthus plants are bioenergy crops because they require lower nutrient concentrations for more growth. Photo credit: L. Brian Stauffer Plant roots often form microbial communities, which can affect plant health …
Realizing high-dimensional quantum transmission through nonlinear detection. In our concept, information encoded on a coherent source and overlapped with a single photon in an entangled pair in a nonlinear crystal …
An artist’s impression of a small black hole placed at the center of the sun in a thought experiment. Image source: Wikimedia/Creative Commons. In hypothetical scenarios, small primordial black holes …
Image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in February 2022. The black spot is the shadow of the moon Ganymede. These colorful patterns are formed by clouds at different …