Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics - STEM

07/03/2026

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and momentum, cannot simultaneously be determined with arbitrary precision—not because of imprecise measur...

03/19/2026

Nature Reviews Methods Primers: Ultrafast near-field microscopy unites femtosecond optical spectroscopy with nanometre spatial resolution. This Primer outlines theory, instrumentation, signal interpretation and representative applications, providing a practical foundation for generating and analysing ultrafast nano-movies of quantum materials.

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02/28/2026

02/28/2026

Nature Reviews Cardiology: In this Review, Kaiser and Nicolai summarize our understanding of procoagulant platelets, describing the signalling pathways that control platelet procoagulant activation and discussing the role of procoagulant platelets in venous and arterial thrombosis, as well as potential therapeutic approaches to target these platelets in thrombotic and thromboinflammatory disorders.

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02/28/2026

Nature Review Materials: Building scalable quantum technologies requires generating robust many-body entanglement in solid-state platforms. This Review highlights how engineered light-matter interactions, optical nonlinearities and coupling to nanophotonic structures enable coherent many-body entangled states that are resilient to disorder and decoherence.

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02/26/2026

Nature Reviews Methods Primers: Size-exclusion chromatography coupled with multi-angle static light scattering allows for the separation of macromolecules or colloids in suspension and the determination of the molar mass of the components. This Primer covers the equipment, sample preparation and controls needed for a size-exclusion chromatography, and reviews the applications and challenges in the field.

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02/19/2026

Nature Reviews Methods Primers: This Primer provides an introduction to quantum imaging with correlated photon pairs, from core concepts to experimental realizations. It discusses potential advantages over classical imaging, practical design issues, and the emerging applications and challenges that will shape future progress of the field.

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02/14/2026

Of the many feats achieved by artificial intelligence (AI), the ability to process images quickly and accurately has had an especially impressive impact on science and technology. Now, researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have found a way to improve...