The discovery could advance integrated photonics, on-chip optical signal transmission, and future quantum technologies. A nanoscale gold antenna placed on a crystal can send infrared light along one narrow route, even though no physical waveguide has been carved into the material. Researchers at the 4th Physics Institute of the University of Stuttgart and the Istituto […]
Scientists Steer Infrared Light Through an “Invisible” Waveguide
The discovery could advance integrated photonics, on-chip optical signal transmission, and future quantum technologies. A nanoscale gold antenna placed on a crystal can send infrared light along one narrow route, even though no physical waveguide has been carved into the material. Researchers at the 4th Physics Institute of the University of Stuttgart and the Istituto […]
Electrons Mysteriously Slow to a Crawl Inside This Magnetic Material
Inside an unusual magnetic material, electrons are doing something physicists did not expect: slowing to a near crawl while moving together in quantum lockstep. A team at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) found that electrons in Fe5GeTe2 can enter a charge-ordered state where they move collectively, remain quantum coherent, […]
“Entirely Surprising” – Scientists Have Found a Martian Meteorite Unlike Any Known Before
A meteorite found in Algeria has opened a rare window into nearly 2 billion years of Mars’ history that had largely been missing from the geological record. Researchers at Boston College have determined that Northwest Africa (NWA) 13441, a rock blasted from Mars before eventually reaching Earth, crystallized about 1.273 billion years ago. Its age […]
Cancer Stem Cells Have an “Energy Addiction” – and Scientists Found a Way To Exploit It
High-risk MDS stem cells may have a dangerous weakness hidden inside their own metabolism: an “energy addiction” that researchers may be able to exploit to selectively attack the cells driving the cancer. Cancer stem cells can survive treatments that kill many of the other cells around them, allowing disease to persist or return. Now, researchers […]
Cancer Stem Cells Have an “Energy Addiction” – and Scientists Found a Way To Exploit It
High-risk MDS stem cells may have a dangerous weakness hidden inside their own metabolism: an “energy addiction” that researchers may be able to exploit to selectively attack the cells driving the cancer. Cancer stem cells can survive treatments that kill many of the other cells around them, allowing disease to persist or return. Now, researchers […]
Cancer Stem Cells Have an “Energy Addiction” – and Scientists Found a Way To Exploit It
High-risk MDS stem cells may have a dangerous weakness hidden inside their own metabolism: an “energy addiction” that researchers may be able to exploit to selectively attack the cells driving the cancer. Cancer stem cells can survive treatments that kill many of the other cells around them, allowing disease to persist or return. Now, researchers […]
This Simple Measurement Could Expose a Hidden Diabetes Risk (And It’s Not Your Waistline)
A new screening method uses an unexpected body measurement to estimate diabetes risk without a blood test. Researchers have developed a free online screening tool that considers the length of a person’s thigh alongside six more familiar health indicators. Called MEDWACS, the tool estimates the likelihood that an adult has prediabetes or undiagnosed type 2 […]
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Cephalopods Learned To Float
A 520-million-year-old fossil reveals an early stage in the evolution of cephalopod buoyancy. A tiny tube running through a shell helped early cephalopods control whether they rose or sank in the ocean. Living and extinct members of this group, including octopuses, squids, ammonites, cuttlefish, and nautiluses, have all faced the same challenge of regulating buoyancy, […]
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Cephalopods Learned To Float
A 520-million-year-old fossil reveals an early stage in the evolution of cephalopod buoyancy. A tiny tube running through a shell helped early cephalopods control whether they rose or sank in the ocean. Living and extinct members of this group, including octopuses, squids, ammonites, cuttlefish, and nautiluses, have all faced the same challenge of regulating buoyancy, […]