Jessica Irvine 
Creating and controlling non-Abelian wavefunctions. (a) We entangle 27 ions to create the ground and excited states of a Hamiltonian with D4 topological order on a kagome lattice with periodic boundary conditions. (b) Its excitations go beyond Abelian anyons, whose spacetime braiding depends only on pairwise linking, as exemplified by the e- and m-anyons of …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Imagine you could travel to only 1% of the city where you live—areas that were easily accessible to other residents. That’s the situation for manual wheelchair users traveling by public buses in Columbus, a first-of-its-kind study finds. The situation for those with powered wheelchairs is only somewhat better—the study found they …
1P Halley—Halley’s Comet—which may be the source of the meteorite found this week in a New Jersey … [+] home. Getty A suspected meteorite that struck a house in New Jersey on May 8 may have originated from the Eta Aquariids meteor shower, which is caused by Halley’s comet. As reported on the website of …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Attitudes about gun violence and firearm policies are influenced by race more than age, and opinions vary widely based on whether respondents were born in the U.S. and their political affiliation, according to a recent University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll conducted with Ipsos. Among the key findings of the poll, …
Fin whales are the second largest mammals on the planet. The development of a new technology that allows researchers to eavesdrop on the animals as they swim in the Arctic could one day help prevent ship strikes. Fiber-optic cables line the coasts of the continents and crisscross the oceans, carrying signals that are the backbone …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain According to a new theory developed by social scientists, partisan conflict can be explained by different views on the crucial tasks of societies. Published in the journal Psychological Inquiry, the article suggests that both amassing and distributing resources are essential for society to prosper, with conservatives focusing on amassing resources, and …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Making uniform decisions to justify the decommissioning of offshore artificial structures at the end of their lives could pose significant environmental challenges, a new study has said. In line with the global decarbonization agenda, governments and industries worldwide are exploring how best to expand the use of renewable energy technologies to …
As cities expand into forests and agricultural land, what can be done to maintain the area’s carbon storage capacity? Credit: Mikko Raskinen / Aalto University A team of researchers at Aalto University has developed a new tool to help urban planners keep urban developments in line with climate goals. The tool provides a metric that …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers Charlotte de Mouzon and Gérard Leboucher of the Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement, Université Paris Nanterre in France, have examined preferred feline etiquette when faced with an unfamiliar human. In the paper, “Multimodal Communication in the Human–Cat Relationship: A Pilot Study,” published in Animals, researchers examined four modes of human interactions—vocal, …
Qizhong Liang, a PhD candidate in JILA and the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has demonstrated how the laser-based breathalyzer works in the Ye lab at JILA, which could be shrunk down for “on-the-go health monitoring.” A human breath contains over 1,000 distinct molecules with a unique chemical fingerprint or “breathprint,” …