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CONSEQUENCES. “The probability of this oscillation occurring is small, but it holds the key to leptonic CP violation: if CP symmetry is conserved, the oscillation probability for muon-to-electron neutrino conversion would be the same as that for muon-to-electron antineutrino conversion.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEW FINDING. “Since their discovery, neutrino oscillations have been analysed in several experiments, but only in the past few years have tiny oscillations from muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos been observed.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

CHANGELINGS. “Importantly, the superposition state can change over time because the components evolve differently (Fig. 1). For example, a neutrino that was produced as purely muon-flavoured can become partly an electron neutrino.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

WONDERLAND. “Neutrino oscillation is the phenomenon whereby neutrinos change from one flavour to another as they travel. It is a quantum-mechanical effect that arises because each neutrino flavour is effectively a mixture — a quantum superposition — of three states that have different masses.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINO MASS. “However, the discovery of neutrino oscillations by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in 1998, and by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in 2002, proved that these particles do have mass.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

THE MENU. “Neutrinos come in three types (flavours), determined by their associated charged lepton, whether that is an electron, a muon or a tau particle. It was long thought that neutrinos were massless.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

At the center of the Lagoon Nebula, imaged by Hubble in 2018, a young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds, carving shapes out of the surrounding gas and dust: https://lnkd.in/eS8tB3Bp https://lnkd.in/e5MaXFXg View in LinkedIn

ANIMATED UNIVERSE. “Even a photon has some degree of consciousness. The idea is not that photons are intelligent or thinking. [...] But the thought is maybe photons might have some element of raw, subjective feeling, some primitive precursor to consciousness.” (Chalmers 2014). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03633-1_14 View in LinkedIn

JOYS OF THE IMPERFECT. “The presence of imperfections in graphene has dramatically enabled its application in spintronics. Multiple types of imperfections have been explored for the realization of graphene spintronics include point defects, line defects such as edges, chemical doping, and sp3 hybridization. Magnetic moments arises from these defects in graphene are usually weak and not stable.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

VALUABLE ERRORS. “Note that the image sensor is not operational with intrinsic graphene. P-doped graphene is required for the generation of an electron–hole pair upon light absorption. The imperfect graphene, made from non-optimized growth and transfer methods, is not only good for flat image sensing, but also object tracking, enabling advanced technologies such as autonomous vehicles.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn