How to Mitigate the Impact of a COVID Lockdown on Mental Health
The Covid-19 pandemic is impacting people’s mental health. But what helps and hinders people in getting through a lockdown? A new study led by researchers…
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Arachnauts: NASA Sends Spiders to Space for Experimentation – Here’s What They Found
Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful…
The New SQUID: A Tiny Instrument to Measure the Faintest Magnetic Fields
David Indolese, a Physicist at the University of Basel, shortly explains the new SQUID – a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields….
Spintronics Breakthrough: Efficient Valves for Electron Spins
Researchers at the University of Basel in collaboration with colleagues from Pisa have developed a new concept that uses the electron spin to switch an…
Semiconducting Graphene Ribbons Developed for Electronics and Quantum Computing
A team of physicists and chemists has produced the first porous graphene ribbons in which specific carbon atoms in the crystal lattice are replaced with…
Laser Loop Acts as a Mechanical Spring to Couple Quantum Systems Over a Distance
Quantum technology is currently one of the most active fields of research worldwide. It takes advantage of the special properties of quantum mechanical states of…
Faster Electrons From Flatter Graphene
Bumps on a road slow down our pace, so do corrugations in graphene to traveling electrons. By flattening the corrugations out, we help electrons move…
Corrugated Structure of 2D Material Silicene Precisely Measured
Silicene consists of a single layer of silicon atoms. In contrast to the ultra-flat material graphene, which is made of carbon, silicene shows surface irregularities…
New Strategy for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Chemists from the University of Basel have succeeded in synthesizing two complex natural products from the group of dithiodiketopiperazines (DTPs). For this, they employed a…
Efficient Quantum-Mechanical Interface Leads to a Strong Interaction Between Light and Matter
Researchers have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic cavity. Within this cavity, a single photon is emitted and absorbed up…
New Quantum-Mechanical Dissipation Mechanism Observed for the First Time
How to control friction in topological insulators. Topological insulators are innovative materials that conduct electricity on the surface, but act as insulators on the inside….
Machine Learning to Automatically Measure and Control Qubits
The electron spin of individual electrons in quantum dots could serve as the smallest information unit of a quantum computer. Scientists from the Universities of…