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Detecting a single photon is a challenge in itself. But what if you also want to know exactly how many photons arrive at a particular point at the same time? Physicist Erik Baalbergen is working on light detectors that can do just that. They form a key building block for the optical quantum computer of the future.
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Climate change is affecting not only our weather but also the distribution of parasites and the diseases they can carry. One example is the growing presence of Hyalomma ticks in parts of Europe where…
TOI-5217 A b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a -type star. Its mass is 1.282 Jupiters, it takes 4.4 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.0604 AU from its star.
TOI-7176 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a -type star. Its mass is 0.632 Jupiters, it takes 47.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.2292 AU from its star.
While West Africa clears rainforest for chocolate, Brazilian farmers are reviving degraded pastures.
Learn how ancient DNA traces migrations that may have spread Germanic and Celtic languages across Europe, offering new clues to English’s roots and Viking ancestry.
Linguistic clues and ancient coins could suggest that Verica—a ruler who fled Britain and convinced Roman Emperor Claudius to launch an invasion across the English Channel—has been misgendered for centuries
