6+ hour, 54+ min ago  (283+ words) Our central motivation was to address the limitations of conventional pacemakers, while preserving precise control of cardiac rhythm," says Gong. To assess whether this prototype NUP could achieve non-invasive cardiac pacing in sonogenetically engineered rats, they attached the device onto…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (393+ words) With the combined disruption of climate change and human activity, whales are rapidly being forced into new habitats and migration patterns. To understand these profound shifts in behaviour, conservationists widely rely on a technique named distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), which…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (231+ words) Lorna Brigham is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. She holds a Master's degree in Chemistry and completed her Ph D at the University of Sussex, where she specialised in photovoltaic materials. Lorna joined the Reports on Progress in Physics…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (251+ words) Lorna Brigham is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. She holds a Master's degree in Chemistry and completed her Ph D at the University of Sussex, where she specialised in photovoltaic materials. Lorna joined the Reports on Progress in Physics…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (267+ words) Limits on the speed of quantum algorithms are not quite as rigid as previously thought, according to new research Quantum computers promise to simulate physical systems far beyond the reach of classical machines. But even quantum algorithms face fundamental limits:…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (357+ words) A major astronomy facility in the Andes has begun a 10-year survey of the Southern sky with the aim of creating the most comprehensive, cinematic record of the universe ever made. Based in Cerro Pach'n in the Andes, the Vera…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (403+ words) Officials at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva have turned off the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the last time. Over the coming four years, the accelerator complex will be upgraded to prepare for the High-Luminosity LHC (Hi Lumi LHC)…...

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3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (446+ words) The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is partnering with industry, utilities, national laboratories and government to establish a regional powerhouse in quantum science and technology If that's the back story, what of the detail? The research effort at UTC Quantum…...

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