Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/07
Margaret Harris
Humans strive to avoid awkward unbalanced situations and instead favour “balanced” networks that obey rules like “the friend of my friend is also my friend” and “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/03
Isabelle Dumé
Pulses of laser light can cause any material – including insulators – to develop a relatively large magnetic moment.
激光脉冲可以使任何材料(包括绝缘体)产生相对较大的磁矩。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/04
Isabelle Dumé
Researchers at Princeton University in the US say they have made the first direct observation of a Wigner crystal – a structure consisting solely of electrons arranged in a latticelike configuration.
美国普林斯顿大学的研究人员说,他们首次直接观测到了维格纳晶体--一种完全由电子组成的格子状结构。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/01
Keith Cooper
The magnetic field of the Milky Way’s black hole is surprisingly similar to that of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87, as Keith Cooper reports.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/10
Peter Gwynne
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is to assemble a panel to help it decide whether to fund the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) or the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/09
Michael Banks
China has successfully launched a mission to bring back samples from the far side of the Moon – the first attempt to do so.
中国成功发射了从月球远端带回样本的任务,这是中国首次尝试这样做。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/06
Senne Starckx
A nuclear clock based on thorium-229 is one step closer after researchers in Germany and Austria have shown that they can put nuclei of the isotope into a low-lying metastable state.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/02
Isabelle Dumé
Researchers in the US and Canada have detected an effect known as quantum Barkhausen noise for the first time.
美国和加拿大的研究人员首次探测到了一种被称为量子巴克豪森噪声的效应。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/05
Isabelle Dumé
Researchers in France and the US have shown that Oil and water can mix even with no surfactant.
法国和美国的研究人员已经证明,即使没有表面活性剂,油和水也能混合。
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