Astronomers Detect Radio Signal from Beta Pictoris b

Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array have directly detected auroral radio emissions from Beta Pictoris b, marking the first time a radio signal has been unambiguously traced to an exoplanet rather than its host star. Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos and his colleagues at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University … Read more

Diamond Defects: Revolutionizing Mechanical Sensors

< div> Researchers at Tohoku University have embedded nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers directly into single-crystal diamond micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) cantilevers to measure real-time mechanical stress, according to a study published in Functional Diamond. The integration allows the physical structure of the MEMS device to function simultaneously as its own quantum sensor, removing the need for … Read more