A $21 million gift from philanthropist Thea Berggren to the University of Chicago will establish the Berggren Center for Quantum Biology and Medicine, launching a bold scientific field that merges quantum technology with biology to transform the future of medicine.

Around EUR 180,000 for participation of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence in the tSPECT and Mu3e experiments and the international NEMESIS and BEYOND consortia

Electrospinning has been used to produce polymer fibres containing the well-known antibacterial drug metronidazole. The mats formed from them at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences could potentially be used as wound dressings, thanks to an appropriately selected polymeric structure capable of releasing the drug into the body in a controlled manner.

Introducing an external photo field would effectively enhance electrocatalysis such as electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR), but suffering from the limited utilization efficiency of the photo-generated carriers. To address this challenge, a research team led by Professor Yuan-Biao Huang at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Science, has successfully encapsulated metal halide perovskite quantum dots (e.g. CsPbBr₃) with high light-absorption coefficients, into a cobalt-porphyrin-based covalent–organic frameworks (COFs) host (COF-366-Co). The synthesized perovskite-COF composite material, effectively improve the performance of the photocoupled electrochemical CO₂RR.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space—a phenomenon once thought to belong purely to the realm of science fiction.

The simulations recreated a bizarre phenomenon predicted by quantum physics, where light appears to be generated from darkness.

The findings pave the way for real-world laser facilities to experimentally confirm bizarre quantum phenomena.

The results have been published today (5 June) in Communications Physics.

One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most recent technological breakthroughs: machine learning and quantum computing. An experimental study shows that already small-scale quantum computers can boost the performance of machine learning algorithms. This was demonstrated on a photonic quantum processor by an international team of researchers of the University of Vienna. The work, recently published in Nature Photonics, shows promising new applications for optical quantum computers.