Observations of a galaxy harking back to the Universe’s infancy revealed five times the heat we would expect – so what does that mean for our theories of cosmology? Perhaps as with people, age in cosmology is not so easy to extrapolate... physicsworld.com/a/hot-ancien... #cosmology

Metalinguistics – the ability to understand the ambiguity in eg “Eliza wanted her cast out” and recursivity – eg the island in the lake in the island in the… - previously thought uniquely human, not anymore…how come?... academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

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Reduce, re-use, recycle - just as important for #quantumcomputers as it is for household waste. Researchers at US based Atom Computing, Inc & their collaborators report success in retaining atom levels, key to scaling up quantum computing without escalating errors: physicsworld.com/a/qubit-recy...

How have I not noticed the National Gallery mosaics before? Science! Rutherford! Sea monsters! Amazing stuff

What could you do if you could make a staple material from the semiconductor industry superconduct? Leverage a trillion dollar infrastructure for next gen quantum tech? Ultra high density superconducting device chips? Hybrid quantum and classical computing?.... www.livescience.com/technology/c...

Time crystals may not be so fragile after all. Researchers @aalto.fi @royalholloway.bsky.social and @lancasteruni.bsky.social have shown their time crystal can withstand interactions with the sloshing about of a mechanical surface wave, like those at the seaside www.livescience.com/technology/c...

A broken clock is still right twice a day but what use is a really bad clock? Apparently very useful for settling the trade off between precision and entropy at the quantum level... physicsworld.com/a/researcher...

Q: What can you do with a clock that only "ticks" when an electron randomly tunnels through a double quantum dot? A: More than you might expect! Fun story about entropy & the second law of thermodynamics in the #quantum world by @annademming.bsky.social 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/researcher...

Known as a “lip out” or the “golfer’s curse,” the sometimes strange behavior of golf balls has bedeviled players for centuries. Now, physicists have figured out how they happen. Just don't expect the discovery to improve your game... Fun story by @annademming.bsky.social for @science.org

Experimentalist's maxim: “I’m not surprised it worked. I’m always surprised how hard it is to *get* it to work. Making it look and do exactly what you design it to do – that’s the really hard part.” - Simon Gröblacher in this @annademming.bsky.social piece: physicsworld.com/a/single-pho... 🧪⚛️

“I’m not surprised that it worked. I’m always surprised how hard it is to get it to work” says Simon Groeblacher at TU Delft “Making it to look and do exactly what you design it to do – that’s the really hard part.” Here the effort paid off... physicsworld.com/a/single-pho... #quantum

Biophysicists are realizing that there is an undervalued element at play in early development: Aside from genes, mechanical forces also steer the growth of embryos. @annademming.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/genes-have-h...

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Congratulations John Clarke, Michel Devoret & John Martinis for today's #PhysicsNobel Prize for detecting the quantum effect - "quantum tunnelling" - in systems large enough to hold in your hand. Love an excuse to dwell on quantum physics! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hydrogen provides a clean source of energy on demand…if you have the means to store such a volatile and reactive substance. Now researchers in Japan suggest they have hit on a game changing electrolyte for hydrogen batteries. www.chemistryworld.com/news/hydroge... #hydrogenbattery

How do you make a page turner out of industrial chemistry? One way is to mine the rich seam linking movies with weapons of mass destruction as @alicelovejoy.bsky.social demonstrates so successfully in Tales of Militant Chemistry. www.sciencenews.org/article/tale... @sciencenews.bsky.social

Einstein's general relativity and classical Newtonian physics - not so different after all? Researchers @caltech.edu develop equations to explore gravity & black hole physics inspired by Maxwell's equations for light physicsworld.com/a/reformulat... @physicsworld.bsky.social #relativity #blackhole

Could retrieving the “neglecton” from the scrap heap of anyon maths allow topological quantum computing enthusiasts to finally have their cake and eat it? physicsworld.com/a/predicted-... #quantumcomputing @physicsworld.bsky.social Thanks Aaron Lauda @usc.edu for explaining it all to me

‘Any noise at all and I can react,’ says Paul on a video by the mental health charity @Mind. He is sharing his experiences with others who have PTSD. ‘My heart will go fast … I’ll jump and my nerves will tingle all down my back.’... www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

Hi all, I’m going to be writing an article that looks at when in their careers scientists feel they do their most satisfying work… I’m sure it’ll vary hugely but if you’d like to help provide a starting point please fill in this survey - and please share! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8407348/C...

Thought the structure of ice was “crystal clear”? Most ice exists in space accumulating molecule by molecule where the temperatures are too low for the molecules to reorganise themselves. So outer space ice is amorphous? Wrong again... www.chemistryworld.com/news/evidenc... @chemistryworld.com

An imbalance in sodium ions in the blood causes a number of physiological problems, but it has not been possible to measure these ion concentrations in vivo, until now physicsworld.com/a/terahertz-... #Terahertz #optoacoustics @physicsworld.bsky.social

Expectations over optical behaviour widely held since Louis Pasteur’s seminal discoveries in 1848 have been upended by a new study. ‘Within the inorganic crystal community there’s been a strong sentiment that you cannot have chiroptical effects under centrosymmetry,’ says Roel Tempelaar...

While machine learning algorithms have wowed with how they help figure out protein folding problems, most proteins function by switching between conformations and engineering ‘de novo’ proteins that do this has proved a lot more tricky... www.chemistryworld.com/news/designe...

Fungi are often described as the "dark matter" of the gut microbiome as they are hard to study. But it could be well worth the effort according to research led by Changtao Jiang at Peking University... www.livescience.com/health/truly...

A month ago today we celebrated World Quantum Day and the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology with our event Art of Quantum - here's a glimpse of what we did: youtu.be/5UwT1ThOqjc Huge thanks to everyone who contributed their brilliance to make it such a great day! #IYQ #quantum

“…this is the most exciting experimental technique of the last 15 years or so in condensed matter physics; new interesting data are surely coming.” - Ochoa De Eguileor Romillo on research by Ilani's Group @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/quantum-tw... @physicsworld.bsky.social

Really excited for tomorrow's Somerscience - www.somerscience.cowww.somerscience.co.uk - we'll be kicking off at 10:30 with our #QuantumDance youtu.be/3Q1o4O1lcB0?... but really looking forward to all the other activities throughout the rest of the day too #lovescience !

Huge thanks to all the quantum experts, artists and dancers who brought their expertise and creativity to our event "Art of Quantum" on Sunday, to everyone who attended, got stuck in, asked all those probing questions and were such a great audience - Happy World Quantum Day!

Wondering what to do with yourself/with the family this Sunday 13th April? We've got you covered! Join our community event full of things to see, hear, watch, do, eat and drink for all ages and interests throughout the day - Art of Quantum www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the...

With less than a week to go to "Art of Quantum" in Bristol we've released the last of our 50% discount standard tickets - first come first served. A family friendly sci/art/dance event with talks, art & dance to see, hear, watch & do for all ages www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the... #IYQ2025

Researchers report electrical signals not from neurons or heart muscle cells but from epithelial cells. “The signal propagation speed we measured is about 1000 times slower than neurons and 10 times faster than ERK,” says first author Sunmin Yu... physicsworld.com/a/epithelial...

Happy Mother’s Day and Eid mubarak! To celebrate we have 50% discounts for tickets to Art of Quantum Sunday 13th April at the Trinity Centre (www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the...) – a feast of talks, workshops, dance and arts all on the theme of quantum! To get the discount answer...

Exoplanets around star HR 8799 are enriched in heavy elements compared to their host star says study, which suggests they share an evolution similar to that of Jupiter and Saturn www.chemistryworld.com/news/jwst-re... Thanks to @balmer.bsky.social who led the study of JWST data for the insights

Been enjoying the trilling of songbirds returning from their migrations this spring? I was intrigued to hear that these tiny creatures embark on these huge migrations alone, without even a parent to guide them...

The statistical workings of #AI #LLMs may be more similar to human language cognition than traditional models based on a hierarchy of speech structures such as common sounds (phonemes), words, parts of speech (nouns, verbs etc) and sentences www.livescience.com/health/neuro... @livescience.com

“Hard squared,” is how Boeing principal senior technical fellow Jay Lowell described the next phase of the company’s work on space-based quantum technologies to BI Foresight. As if quantum technology wasn’t hard enough, what could possess you to try and put it in space? ....

A lot of people would assume an aptitude for mechanics would come in handy when you want to fix your car or build a safe and durable suspension bridge – fewer might expect it to shed light on how an entire organism develops from a single cell...

‘I was thinking that, okay, the story is more or less finished; the classical fission theory is safe,’ Khuyagbaatar Jadambaa @unimainz.bsky.social told me. That changed just 5 months later... www.chemistryworld.com/news/superhe...

January can be a bit rough but this month has gelt great, mostly I think thanks to a dip in here most mornings. Should be prescribed reading for UK winters...

“Frailty is not just old age. It’s not just having a bunch of diseases. It’s not just disability. It is a state that geriatricians have recognised for hundreds of years – Shakespeare referred to it.” - Karen Bandeen-Roche in Significance @royalstatsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

Avalanches, various stages of tissue development and factory flow lines all hinge on the tipping point between flowing like a fluid and jamming like a solid – and with statistical physics we can figure that out for rigid particles. But… (pic by Josh Lewis/wikimedia)

Journalist (very rough guide to general opinion) request: academics, when you think of Altmetric, do you primarily of a company that tracks a paper’s social media engagement or on that gives important information about a paper’s full range of impact? Cheers. (Please share!)