The clues to their navigation markers lay across the night sky, in the stars. And then there's a little bit of mechanics at play.

Spintronics are promising devices that work utilizing not only the charge of electrons, like conventional electronics, but also their spin (i.e., their intrinsic angular momentum). The development of ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of ...

Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method for creating quantum states by twisting materials at the M-point, ...

Hole spin qubits realized in Ge heterostructures are a promising quantum computing platform. An accurate description of spin-orbit effects is mandatory in numerical methods for device modelling, such ...

Researchers have discovered a simple yet powerful way to protect atoms from losing information—a key challenge in developing ...

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

In a breakthrough that could transform the understanding of quantum magnetism, scientists have shown that a spinon, which was ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how ...

Electric charge is no longer required to carry information as scientists find a practical way to use spintronics in graphene.

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