Category: Highlights

…the gold and silver from this week’s arxivblog: First superheavy element found in nature Solving the faint young Sun problem Stats prove Red Baron’s WW1 victories were down to luck The next high temperature superconductor? How antineutrino monitoring could prevent nuclear proliferation

…this week’s sparklers from the physics arXiv blog: ET more likely to pick up radar bursts than radio transmissions Bluetooth surveillance secretly tested in the city of Bath First observation of antibonding in artificial molecules Modelling how birds mistime egg-laying due to climate change The iron arsenide superconductivity challenge

The cherries from this week’s physics arXiv blog: A Moore-like law for suspension bridges Diamonds in the sky: a miner’s guide Interference between photons that never meet How many politicians spoil the broth? More than 20… Quantum zeno effect explains bird navigation

…a round up of this week’s plums from the physics arxivblog: The hunt for superheavy elements Criticality and the brain A survey of quantum programming languages Global warming: 10 years to avoid catastrophe World record superconductivity claim for aluminium nanoclusters

…the sparks from the arxivblog this week:  A new class of photon gun Buckyballs boost flash memory The coming blackout Statistical evidence of drug abuse in baseball Relativity sung to the tune of Yellow Submarine Qutrit breakthrough brings quantum computers closer

…the sweetmeats from this week’s physics arXiv blog: Single photons bounced off orbiting satellite Future brightens for quantum imaging New type of pulsating star discovered Do galactic cosmic rays influence global warming?  Entanglement beats gravitational test

…the peaches from the physics arXiv blog this week:  Can data overload protect our privacy? Avoiding heat death at the end of the Universe Proof that a minority of streets handle the majority of traffic Winning and the marathon of life  Are primordial quark nuggets hiding among the asteroids?

…this week’s peaches from the arxivblog:   When humans become entangled Food for thought Holographic quantum computing First observation of Hawking radiation? Goal difference, not points, the best way to rank soccer clubs

…The pearls from the physics arxiv blog this week: The physics of human body weight changes  How plankton blooms are born The vibration harvest   First 3D image of a streamer  Dark matter: we’ve been staring at it all along

This week’s gems from the physics arXiv blog: Quantum computers and the death of chemistry Inflatable mountains The world’s first quantum ratchet Who’s that on the runway?