X-ray spectra provide sharpest image to date of a rapidly spinning black hole

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...
Microsoft

Measurement is the key to helping keep AI on track

When Hanna Wallach first started testing machine learning models, the tasks were well-defined and easy to evaluate. Did the model correctly identify the cats in an image? Did it accurately predict the ...
Science Daily

An old jeweler’s trick could change nuclear timekeeping

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Quantum-enhanced interferometry amplifies detection of tiny laser beam shifts and tilts

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest ...