String field theory could be the foundation of quantum mechanics: Connection could be huge...
Artist's abstraction (stock illustration).
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Two USC researchers have proposed a link between string field theory and quantum mechanics that could open...
Proteins ‘ring like bells’: Quantum mechanics and biochemical reactions
Vincent Daris, Hans Bachor, Jiri Janousek, Michael Taylor and Joachim Knittel.
Dr David Turton, the ultrafast laser expert who carried out the laser experiments.
Credit: Image...
Quantum microscope for living biology
Vincent Daris, Hans Bachor, Jiri Janousek, Michael Taylor and Joachim Knittel.
Credit: Image courtesy of Australian National University
A team of Australian scientists has developed a...
Quantum RAM: Modelling the big questions with the very small
This image shows the Quantum Optics and Information Lab, Joseph Ho.
Credit: Griffith University
Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes...
Quantum mechanics is complex enough, for now…
Physicists use an interferometer to test whether standard quantum mechanics is correct, or whether a more complex version is required. They used the interferometer...
Distant artificial atoms cooperate by sharing light: Future applications in advanced quantum devices
This is an illustration of the artificial atoms or "qubits" alongside the one-dimensional "waveguide" or transmission line.
Credit: Illustration by Arjan van Loo
An international team...
Physicists show how lifeless particles can become ‘life-like’ by switching behaviors
The Burton lab studies tiny, plastic particles as a model for more complex systems. The particles are suspended in a vacuum chamber filled with...
Skin patch dissolves ‘love handles’ in mice
Microneedle patch.
Credit: Zhen Gu, UNC and NC State
Researchers have devised a medicated skin patch that can turn energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat...
Embrace the cold: Evidence that shivering and exercise may convert white fat to brown
This image shows measuring the heat emitted by brown fat cells.
Credit: Image supplied by Dr. Paul Lee
A new study suggests that shivering and bouts...
A specific protein regulates the burning of body fat to generate heat
This is a thermal image of a mouse, with white indicating the location of brown fat (maximum heat generation).
Credit: Nuria Matesanz, CNIC.
Scientists at the...
Shifting the balance between good fat and bad fat
Sanford-Burnham Professors Jorge Moscat, Ph.D., and Maria Diaz-Meco, Ph.D. co-authored a study on p62's role in fat metabolism.
Credit: Image courtesy of Sanford-Burnham Medical Research...
