It isn't easy being a loner—someone who resists the pull of the crowd, who marches to their own drummer.
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2020
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Atomic interactions in everyday solids and liquids are so complex that some of these materials' properties continue to elude physicists' understanding. Solving the problems mathematically is beyond the capabilities of modern ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 12, 2019
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If scientists want the public to trust their research suggestions, they may want to appear a bit "warmer," according to a new review published by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2014
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Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 29, 2021
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Imagine a world where people could only talk to their next-door neighbor, and messages must be passed house to house to reach far destinations.
Quantum Physics
Dec 25, 2019
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In a major step toward making a quantum computer using everyday materials, a team led by researchers at Princeton University has constructed a key piece of silicon hardware capable of controlling quantum behavior between ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 12, 2017
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Princeton University scientists have observed an exotic particle that behaves simultaneously like matter and antimatter, a feat of math and engineering that could yield powerful computers based on quantum mechanics.
General Physics
Oct 2, 2014
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For the first time, a team of Princeton physicists have been able to link together individual molecules into special states that are quantum mechanically "entangled." In these bizarre states, the molecules remain correlated ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 7, 2023
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As mysterious as the Italian scientist for which it is named, the Majorana particle is one of the most compelling quests in physics.
Quantum Physics
Jun 13, 2019
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An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects that extend to room temperature.
Quantum Physics
Jul 23, 2020
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