New Research Calls Into Question Popular COVID Test
Study questions popular COVID test, proposes new marker of disease severity. Researchers from Skoltech, U.S. companies VirIntel and Argentys Informatics, and two Russian Academy of…
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Optically Generated Quantum Fluids of Light Reveal Exotic Matter-Wave States in Condensed Matter Physics Breakthrough
Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Southampton, U.K., used all-optical methods to create an artificial lattice whose nodes house polaritons — quasiparticles that are half-light…
Russian Scientists Use Supercomputer To Probe Limits of Google’s Quantum Processor
CPQM’s Laboratory for Quantum Information Processing has collaborated with the CDISE supercomputing team “Zhores” to emulate Google’s quantum processor. Reproducing noiseless data following the same…
Physicists Build Mathematical “Playground” To Study Quantum Information Theory
In a new study from Skoltech and the University of Kentucky, researchers found a new connection between quantum information and quantum field theory. This work…
New Extremely Energy-Efficient Optical “Transistor” Speeds Up Computation Up to 1,000 Times
An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation…
New Polymer Can Boost Solar Cell Performance
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized a new conjugated polymer for organic electronics using two different chemical reactions and shown the impact of the…
Superconductivity Breakthrough: Stepping Stones to “Goldilocks” Superconductors
New cerium superhydrides become stepping stones to “Goldilocks” superconductors. Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from China have experimentally shown superconductivity in cerium superhydrides CeH9…
Giant Quantum Tornados in Hybrid Light-Matter System Reveal Complex Physical Phenomena
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from the UK have managed to create a stable giant vortex in interacting polariton condensates, addressing a known challenge…
Holes in the Solar Atmosphere: Artificial Intelligence Spots Coronal Holes to Automate Space Weather Predictions
Scientists from the University of Graz (Austria), Skoltech and their colleagues from the US and Germany have developed a new neural network that can reliably…
Scientists Discover a New Genetic Mutation That Distinguishes Modern Humans From Neanderthals
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Germany and the United States have analyzed the metabolomes of humans, chimpanzees, and macaques in muscle, kidney, and three…
Taming Silicon to Interact With Light for Next-Generation Microelectronics
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from RAS Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, ITMO University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and…
An Attractive Cheap Organic Material for New Generation of Batteries
A new report by Skoltech scientists and their colleagues describes an organic material for the new generation of energy storage devices, which structure follows an…
New Method Invented for Predicting Solar Radio Flux Two Years Ahead
Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their colleagues from the University of Graz & the Kanzelhöhe Observatory (Austria) and the…
Scientists Create a New Electronegativity Scale
Skoltech chemists have proposed a new electronegativity scale and published their findings in Nature Communications. The concept of electronegativity introduced by Linus Pauling, a great American…
Optimal Human Landing System Architectures Identified for Landing on the Moon
Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick the best one in terms of performance and costs…
New High-Temperature Superconductor Synthesized by Scientists
An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a Professor at Skoltech and MISIS, and Dr. Ivan Troyan from the Institute of Crystallography of RAS…
Chemists Discover a New Form of Ice
Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of a novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate that forms at room temperature…
New Method Developed to Study the “Traces” of Coronal Mass Ejections at the Sun
Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhoehe Observatory (Austria) developed an…