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Amorphous Ice Is Partly Crystalline

Evidence builds against the long-held notion that water ice can be truly glassy. Read More »

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Detecting Ice Structures from Space

Infrared spectroscopy performed on high-pressure ice phases demonstrates a possible technique for studying ice on other planets or moons. Read More »

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Dark Matter Detector Releases Best-Yet Result

Seven metric tons of liquid xenon set some of the strictest constraints ever on dark matter candidates known as WIMPs. Read More »

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Radiation Imbalance: New Material Emits Better Than It Absorbs

A newly designed structure exhibits the largest-recorded emissivity–absorptivity difference, a property that could prove useful in energy-harvesting and cloaking devices. Read More »

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The Meissner Effect Mapped at High Pressure

A new data-analysis method allows researchers to visualize a superconductor expelling an applied magnetic field under high-pressure conditions. Read More »

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Quantum Dots For Reliable Quantum Key Distribution

The efficiency of a quantum cryptography scheme can be improved by replacing conventional attenuated lasers with single-photon quantum-dot sources. Read More »

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How to Measure the Earth–Moon Distance to the Last Micrometer

A researcher describes a pathway to unprecedented precision for measurements of the distance to the Moon using a continuous rather than a pulsed laser. Read More »

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Tracing Quantum’s First Steps: Physicists Return to Helgoland

One hundred years after Heisenberg’s legendary retreat on Helgoland, physicists return to the island to celebrate the achievements of quantum mechanics and to debate its future. Read More »

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What Shapes the Lives of the Gut’s Microbial Inhabitants

A biophysical model sheds light on how the subtle interplay of fluid dynamics and bacterial growth controls the fluctuating population of microbes in the human gut. Read More »

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