An experimental discovery of a fundamental physical phenomenon is not something that happens often. Yet this is what Skoltech researchers and their European colleagues recently managed to do.
In their paper in Nature, they report the experimental demonstration of the so-called AC coherent quantum phase-slip effect. It holds promise comparable to that of the Josephson effect, which underlies the present-day standard of voltage and ultrasensitive magnetic field sensors.
The AC coherent quantum phase-slip effect manifests itself as a...
Italian sports car maker Lamborghini has already pre-sold the entire production run to early 2024, its boss told AFP today, with luxury goods seemingly unaffected by global economic uncertainty.
The Volkswagen subsidiary is enjoying "high demand" and has an order book covering the next 18 months, CEO Stephan Winkelmann said.
Wealthy customers are flocking to the brand despite the global financial fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"We have more and more stepping into Lamborghini. Because they...
The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 reached 90 metres in height, around nine times taller than that from the highly destructive 2011 Japan tsunami, new research has found.
An international research team says the eruption should serve as a wake-up call for international groups looking to protect people from similar events, claiming that detection and monitoring systems for volcano-based tsunamis are...
Chemists have identified how to destroy "forever chemicals" in a low-cost way for the first time, new research says.
Scientists have linked exposure to the substances, known as PFAS, at certain levels to serious health risks, including cancer and birth defects.
Their resistance to water, oil, and stains make them highly useful. PFAS are used in hundreds of everyday objects from frying pans to make-up.
But it is these properties that make them so difficult to destroy.
PFAS stands...
Scientists have discovered the remarkable impact of reversing a standard method for combatting a key obstacle to producing fusion energy on Earth. Theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed doing precisely the opposite of the prescribed procedure to sharply improve future results.
The problem, called "locked tearing modes," occurs in all today's tokamaks, doughnut-shaped magnetic facilities designed to create and control the virtually unlimited fusion power that...
Filings made by Elon Musk's legal team in his battle with Twitter have been questioned by leading bot researchers, the BBC reports.
Botometer – an online tool that tracks spam and fake accounts – was used by Musk in a countersuit against Twitter.
Using the tool, Musk's team estimated that 33% of "visible accounts" on the social media platform were "false or spam accounts."
However, Botometer creator Kaicheng Yang said the figure "doesn't mean anything."
Yang questioned the...
Japan's young adults are a sober bunch - something authorities are hoping to change with a new campaign.
The younger generation drinks less alcohol than their parents - a move that has hit taxes from beverages like sake (rice wine).
So the national tax agency has stepped in with a national competition to come up with ideas to reverse the trend.
The "Sake Viva!" campaign hopes to come up with a plan to make drinking more attractive...
Researchers at UCLA have created an edible particle that helps make lab-grown meat, known as cultured meat, with more natural muscle-like texture using a process that could be scaled up for mass production.
Led by Amy Rowat, who holds UCLA's Marcie H. Rothman Presidential Chair of Food Studies, the researchers have invented edible particles called microcarriers with customized structures and textures that help precursor muscle cells grow quickly and form muscle-like tissues. Edible microcarriers could reduce the...
Technology has enabled the creation of a vast and growing amount of information, leading to benefits (e.g., more data to learn from) as well as drawbacks (e.g., the spread of fake news). New research sought to determine how and why people value information. The research found that people grow attached to information just as they do to physical objects, even when that information cannot be translated into material outcomes.
The findings, by researchers at Carnegie...
Chinese internet giants including Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance, and Tencent have shared details of their algorithms with China's regulators for the first time, the BBC reports.
Algorithms decide what users see and the order they see it in – and are critical to driving the growth of social media platforms.
They are closely guarded by companies.
In the U.S., Meta and Alphabet have successfully argued they are trade secrets amid calls for more disclosure.
The Cyberspace Administration of China...
