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Dialog / Physicists experimentally observe topological defects in glasses for the first time

The amorphous state of matter is the most abundant form of visible matter in the universe, and includes all structurally disordered systems, such as biological cells or essential materials like glass and polymers.

Jan 13, 2025 in Physics
Dialog / Gravitational waves may prove black holes' quantum effect and resolve the dark matter problem

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for heavy black holes, such as the ones detected via gravitational waves by LIGO in 2015. These black ...

Jan 13, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Dialog / Building resilience: Risk perception and hurricane preparedness in Florida

When I first delved into the study on hurricane preparedness among communities in Florida, I was struck by a paradox. Here we have a group of individuals living in one of the most hurricane-prone regions of the United States, ...

Jan 7, 2025 in Earth
Dialog / A new weapon in the battle against cancer: The story of combo prodrug TTFA-Platin

Cancer is a deadly disease taking the lives of thousands of people worldwide, and researchers are constantly looking for better alternatives for treatment. One of the major breakthroughs is combination therapy—a treatment ...

Jan 2, 2025 in Medications
Dialog / Unlocking South Asia's hydrogen economy: The role of geologic storage

The hydrogen economy promises to transform our energy future, but we face significant challenges in realizing its potential—the main one among them is energy storage. For us in South Asia, a region blessed with abundant ...

Jan 2, 2025 in Business
Dialog / Cooperation between two intruders moving side-by-side in granular media

In bird colonies, schools of fish and cycling pelotons, significant interactions occur between individuals through the surrounding fluid. These interactions are well understood in fluids such as air and water, but what happens ...

Dec 28, 2024 in Physics
Dialog / Advancing unidirectional heat flow: The next era of quantum thermal diodes

Heat management at the nanoscale has long been a cornerstone of advanced technological applications, ranging from high-performance electronics to quantum computing. Addressing this critical challenge, we have been deeply ...

Dec 27, 2024 in Physics
Dialog / Quantum research sheds new light on how cells communicate

Have you ever thought that light might hold a key to life's mysteries? One hundred years ago, Alexander Gurwitsch dared to propose that living cells emit faint ultraviolet light, invisible to the naked eye, to communicate ...

Dec 23, 2024 in Physics
Dialog / Avoiding customer backlash: Study highlights importance of transparency in return policy changes

In 2018, L.L. Bean announced in a letter to customers that it had ended the century-old "lifetime" return policy, which allowed customers to return items they purchased anytime for a full refund. The new policy allowed customers ...

Dec 23, 2024 in Other Sciences
Dialog / Paleoenvironmental study at Waterfall Bluff reveals leopard seal far from Antarctic waters

Waterfall Bluff Rock Shelter (WB) (Eastern Cape Province (ECP), South Africa) contains archaeological deposits demonstrating persistent and continuous human occupation spanning from Late Marine Isotope Stage 3 (~39ka–29ka) ...

Dec 14, 2024 in Biology
Dialog / Shaping the future of indoor wireless connectivity: Quantum-inspired modular optical phased arrays

As our devices multiply and data demands grow, traditional wireless systems are hitting their limits. To meet these challenges, we have turned to an innovative solution. At the University of Melbourne and Monash University, ...

Dec 11, 2024 in Telecom
Dialog / Alena Tensor—a new hope for unification in physics

The search for quantum gravity has gone on for 100 years, but it is not the only unification challenge in physics. Many of us believe that one day there will be a unification theory—a theory that will reconcile many divergent ...

Dec 10, 2024 in Physics