Ultrashort laser pulses catch a snapshot of a 'molecular handshake'

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule ...

Electron-phonon interactions in crystals found to be quantized by a fundamental constant

A researcher at the Department of Physics at Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising quantum phenomenon hidden inside ...
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Study shows protons in biology following quantum rules

Quantum physics is usually associated with particle colliders and vacuum chambers, not with the proteins quietly shuttling ...
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What if aliens exist—but they’re just hiding from us? The Dark Forest theory, explained

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...
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For the first time ever, researchers made a photon travel back in time

Shattered glass does not leap back into your hand. Smoke from a match does not gather itself and crawl back inside. In everyday life, time feels like a one-way street, and you only get one chance to ...
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On TikTok, Everyone’s Reaching A “Flow State”

Attention! Another new term has entered the TikTok lexicon, and you’re about to see it everywhere. If you’ve spent any time on the app within the past week, you might have noticed people talking about ...
IEEE

Non-Stationary-Oriented Highway Traffic Flow Spatiotemporal Prediction: Joint Koopman Theory and Graph Convolutional Network*

Abstract: Reliable and accurate traffic flow prediction is crucial for the construction and operation of smart highways, and is also a pivotal enabler of autonomous vehicle applications. However, ...