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So it seems that their definition of 100% means 1 excited state per incoming photon, and then they use a material that converts a single high energy excited state produced by one p…

How I wish more people would remember this! What extraordinary interpolation tools we have! Truly marvelous and worth celebrating, but not worth a damn for extrapolation. Such a to…

The reason this is important is not because the molecule has any practical utility, either now or in the future. Most of the reactions it participates in will probably be various d…

Huh. That's an interesting possible metric. How many competing tendencies in a space? It a good question and one that's been asked before. I wonder how machine learnability compare…

Well put! You make a very good point. The historical trajectory of a field's development is an extremely haphazard presentation of the ideas. It belongs in a separate curriculum, a…

In this case, chemistry of Ga and Ge are a bit different, and the Cr compound that was misstated is part of a family of materials that rely heavily on the coordinating chemistry of…

I'm inclined to give them a pass. It's easy enough to figure out that it should be germanium and not gadolinium, and dyslexia already exists among scientists. Context provides enou…

The trouble with holograms, if I understand them correctly, is that when storing information in a phase structure, to change one small part of the information you are storing, the …

This article has a headline engineered with shock value connotations, but when you read it carefully, it takes pains to rein the suggestions of the title in as much as possible whi…

Agreed! It’s pretty alien. I’ve seen brilliant single author work, but nothing that uses “I” unless it’s a blog post. The formal papers are always the singular “we”. Feels very com…

What’s the plan for dealing with cosmic rays? I worry about when your beautiful angstrom-precision qubit networks encounter a relativistic proton or muon.

As far as I understand it, smaller scale XFEL devices still suffer from poor aim, even though now these machines have been miniaturized to basement scales. They don’t need to be si…

It’s a cadmium isotope. Super cool technique, I think perturbed angular correlation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbed_angular_correlatio... I haven’t used it for my resear…