Under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused “pencil beam.” This schematic shows the pencil beam formation mechanism. Credit: MIT MIT researchers found that chaotic laser…
A chip designed to convert high voltages into lower levels in electronics — a process known as DC-DC step-down conversion — more efficiently using a piezoelectric resonator. Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering…
Cover illustration of the journal Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry), selected as the front cover for the issue featuring this research (Sun et al., 2026). Credit: Cover artwork by Yutaka Majima. Courtesy of the Royal…
Phonon lasers are used to trap and levitate nanoparticles in the laboratory of Nick Vamivakas, the Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Optical Physics at the University of Rochester. Credit: University of…
Using a technique called multi-slice electron ptychography (MEP), researchers move a nanoscale-sized probe of electrons over a material and measure the resulting electron diffraction patterns. Overlapping regions can be used to create a 3D scan…
A new quantum battery prototype uses the strange rules of quantum physics to charge in a single rapid burst. Even more surprisingly, it charges faster as it gets larger, hinting at a radically different future…
Ultrathin 2D materials have long been seen as the key to pushing computer chips beyond current limits. But new research reveals a subtle, often overlooked factor that can quietly undermine their performance and reshape which…
A 532-nm continuous-wave laser “sculpted” microscopic patterns onto a flake of As2S3, including a monochromatic portrait of Albert Einstein (700-nm point spacing) and a QR-code-like design (600-nm point spacing). Credit: XPANCEO A team of scientists…
New model uses persistent homology to analyze topological features in data and extract inhomogeneous structural features from the domain images. Entropy-extended free energy landscape reveals magnetization reversal in maze domains. The explainable entropy-feature-eXtended Ginzburg-Landau (eX-GL)…
Scientists have found a way to make AI much better at predicting complex, chaotic systems by tapping into the unique power of quantum computing. Credit: Shutterstock Quantum computing is giving AI a major boost in…
