Optical atomic clocks just took a clean step forward. An MIT team reports a method that cuts quantum noise and lets a clock resolve twice as many ticks as before.
The work centers on ytterbium atoms and a new way to steady a laser, and careful…

Optical atomic clocks just took a clean step forward. An MIT team reports a method that cuts quantum noise and lets a clock resolve twice as many ticks as before.
The work centers on ytterbium atoms and a new way to steady a laser, and careful…

Oyakhire, S. T., Gong, H., Cui, Y., Bao, Z. & Bent, S. F. An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy primer for solid electrolyte interphase characterization in lithium metal anodes. ACS Energy Lett. 7, 2540–2546 (2022).
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Sarah Al-Ahmed: Exploring Venus, hopping probes and leaping robots, this week on Planetary Radio.
I’m Sarah Al-Ahmed of The Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. This week, we’re back with part…

HEK293T/17 (CRL-11268, RRID: CVCL_1926) cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). G-protein-deficient HEK293 cells (ΔGNAS, ΔGNAL, ΔGNAQ, ΔGNA11, ΔGNA12 and ΔGNA13, HEK293 clone 38 (ref. 54) and…
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A study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research uses a noninvasive, nonradioactive imaging-based method to measure the structure and function of the Achilles tendon in professional ballet dancers. The method could potentially be…