According to professor Peter Lodahl, it is a crucial step in the effort to take the development of quantum technology to the next level and to “quantize” computers, encryption, and the internet.

By doing so, we’ve revealed the key to scaling up the technology, which is crucial for the most ground-breaking of quantum hardware applications,” says Lodahl.

According to Lodahl, just 100 photons emitted from a single quantum light source will contain more information than the world’s largest supercomputer can process.

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“We weren’t sure at first if it would work,” Cai said in a statement, “but we ultimately discovered we could use neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms.”

Kevin McFarland, the Dr. Steven Chu Professor in Physics at Rochester University, called the new method a “very indirect way of measuring something.” However, he says that the team’s approach “allows us to relate the structure of an object—in this case, a proton—to how many deflections we see in different angles.”

“Because our measurement is unambiguously a measurement of this other description of the proton’s shape that the ‘axial vector form factor’ provides, it can now be used to predict other processes,” McFarland told The Debrief, which includes the results of neutrinos scattering from neutrons, or possibly even neutrinos or antineutrinos scattering against the bound protons and neutrons within an atom’s nucleus.

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Researchers from Columbia University in New York say an anti-inflammatory drug can rejuvenate the system which makes blood — possibly increasing the human lifespan by decades!

Passegué and graduate student Carl Mitchell discovered the anti-inflammatory drug anakinra, approved for use in rheumatoid arthritis cases, reverses some of the effects of aging on the hematopoietic system.

“Treating elderly patients with anti-inflammatory drugs blocking IL-1B function should help with maintaining healthier blood production,” Passegué says, who hopes this study will soon lead to clinical trials.

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In 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically active objects instead of the inert icy orbs previously envisioned.

These new models suggest that when the moon's internal ocean froze, it may have formed the deep, elongated depressions along its girth but was less likely to lead to cryovolcanoes erupting with ice, water and other materials in its northern hemisphere.

Fractures in the ice shell may be the initiation points of these canyons along the global tectonic belt of ridges that traverse the face of Charon, separating the northern and southern geological regions of the moon.

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When using molecules to study many-body physics, these advantages are expected to enable researchers to explore fascinating new quantum phases of matter in these synthetic systems.

Other members of the Princeton team are graduate student Ravin Raj, post-doc Dr. Zoe Yan, undergraduate Sungjae Chi and theorists Alan Morningstar and Prof. David Huse.

The study, “Probing site-resolved correlations in a spin system of ultracold molecules,” by Lysander Christakis, Jason S. Rosenberg, Ravin Raj, Sungjae Chi, Alan Morningstar, David A. Huse, Zoe Z. Yan and Waseem S. Bakr was published online in the journal Nature on Feb. 1, 2023 (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05558-4.

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In 1987, the international Montreal Protocol aimed to reduce damage to the ozone layer by phasing out harmful CFCs, which were widely used for refrigeration, solvents, in aerosols and for industrial activities.

“It's been quoted as the most successful global environmental treaty there's ever been,” says Martyn Chipperfield, professor at the University of Leeds and senior researcher at the UK’s National Centre for Earth Observation.

Successful global coordination to ban harmful chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gasses and restore the ozone was a rare climate triumph – but can it be replicated in the face of a potential new threat?

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