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MIT scientists create color-changing film inspired by 19th century holography

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Real-time video recording an 8×6-inch stretch of structural color pattern featuring a wreath in homage to the work of 19th century physicist Gabriel Lippmann. Real-time video recording an 8×6-inch stretch of structural color pattern featuring a wreath in homage to the work of 19th century physicist Gabriel Lippmann. The bright colors in butterfly wings or beetle shells come not from any pigment molecules, but from how they are structured—a naturally occurring example of what physicists call photonic crystals. Scientists can manufacture their own structurally colored materials in the laboratory, but it can be a challenge to scale up the process for commercial applications without compromising optical precision. Now MIT scientists have adapted 19th-century holographic photography techniques to develop a chameleon-like film that changes color when stretched. This method can be easily scaled while maintaining nanoscale optical precision. They describe their work in a new pap

MIT Engineers Find Ways to Save Energy and Make Boiling Water More Efficient

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MIT engineers designed a new surface treatment that makes boiling water more efficient. New surface treatments can save energy for systems used in many industries. At the heart of many industrial processes, including most power plants, many chemical production systems, and even cooling systems for electronics, is the energy-intensive step of boiling water or other liquids. They can significantly reduce their energy use by increasing the efficiency of the systems that heat and evaporate the water. MIT MIT stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861. It is organized into five Schools: architecture and planning; manipulation; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science. MIT’s impact includes many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. Their stated goal is to make a better world through education, research, and innovation. ” data-gt-translate-at

MIT is building a time-traveling dark matter detector

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A team of physicists at MIT recently published a stunning research paper detailing their successful attempt to use entanglement and ‘quantum time reversal’ to create sensors capable of taking very deep measurements. It sounds like a lot of science jargon, but the point is this could potentially lead to a legitimate ‘dark matter detector’, and it’s something that could revolutionize humanity’s understanding of everything . In advance: Physics is a moving target. Because we are like fish in an aquarium, we don’t know where the water we are swimming is coming from or what lies behind the blurry shadows on the edge of our glass-paneled horizon. Regards, humanoids Subscribe to our newsletter now for weekly recaps of our favorite AI stories in your inbox. To try to define our reality, we use the scientific method, the human imagination, and a lot of mathematics. But in the end, any theory is only as good as its ability to work with complementary theories. Albert Einstein, for example, spe

MIT Quantum Sensor Can Detect Electromagnetic Signals of Any Frequency

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By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10 July 2022 Scientists at MIT have developed a method to enable such quantum sensors to detect arbitrary frequencies, without losing their ability to measure nanometer-scale features. The new method is described in a paper published in the journal Physical Review X by graduate student Guoqing Wang, professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics Paola Cappellaro, and four others at MIT and Lincoln Laboratory. The team has already applied for patent protection for the new method. Although quantum sensors can take many forms, at their essence they’re systems in which some particles are in such a delicately balanced state that they are affected by even tiny variations in the fields they are exposed to. These can take the form of neutral atoms, trapped ions, and solid-state spins, and research using such sensors has grown rapidly. For example, physicists use them to investigate exotic states of matter, including so-