How it happens: illustration of an antiferromagnetic CrSBr mirror-less cavity that allows the formation of exciton–polaritons. (Courtesy: Florian Dirnberger/City College of New York) An international team of researchers has shown that hybrid light-matter quasiparticles can enhance magneto-optical effects in layered crystals. This research has strong implications for the development of magneto-optic devices, such as sensors and imaging devices, which allow the direct determination and mapping of magnetic domains in materials. The research could also lead to the creation of high-speed switches and all-optically controlled magnetic memory devices. The quasiparticles in this study were exciton–polaritons, which are hybrid light-matter states that…
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A sign is posted in front of a Broadcom office on June 03, 2021 in San Jose, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in midday trading.VMware — The cloud services company slid 2.6%, a day after giving a mixed second-quarter report. While VMware surpassed expectations for earnings per share, it missed on revenue. Lululemon Athletica — The stock popped 5.2% after the athletic apparel retailer reported an earnings beat following Thursday’s close. Fiscal second-quarter earnings per share came in at $2.68, versus the $2.54 expected from analysts polled by Refinitiv. Revenue was $2.21 billion, topping estimates…
“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see,” wrote English critic Samuel Johnson at the height of the Grand Tour’s popularity. (So much for #FOMO being a modern invention.) For young Europeans of means in the 17th to 19th centuries, these travels through Italy and France were a rite of passage, a way to supplement one’s education by taking in the treasures of classical antiquity and the Renaissance. The shared experience of the Grand Tour also contributed to a revival in…
In an era of environmental catastrophe, it’s easy to forget that we are the environment too. The world affected by climate change is not some distant place far away in the forest. It’s us. We are as much a part of the world as the trees, the birds, the ocean. If we have any hope of recovering, we have to remember this essential connection. Instead of conceiving of “human” and “nature” as opposites, as the Western literary tradition would have it, we need to recall the link between ourselves and everything that is not us. The books in this reading…
Meg Ryan was scheduled to return to her romantic comedy big screen stomping ground on Oct. 13, however, Taylor Swift spoiled it. No prob, the Ryan directed and starring What Happens Later holiday-set feature from Bleecker Street will now go on Nov. 3, the last weekend of AMC’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert movie. Hopefully by that time, the Swifties will be interested in other movies. What Happens Later reps the third movie to shift out of the Oct. 13 frame due to the Swift concert after The Exorcist: Believer (now Oct. 6) and Lionsgate/Kingdom Story’s Ordinary Angels which…
WASHINGTON — Space Tango, a Kentucky-based startup that conducts research and science experiments on the International Space Station, on Sept. 1 announced the appointment of S. Sita Sonty as its new chief executive officer. Sonty succeeds co-founder Twyman Clements, who will remain with the company as president. Clements said Sonty will help the company grow its business in “microgravity applications for hardware, software, materials science, biotech and medicine.” Sonty said Space Tango has “proven flight payload heritage, a dedicated customer base, and cutting-edge commercial use cases, which have the potential to revolutionize medicine and additive manufacturing in space.” Sonty previously…
Lenovo Legion Go was launched during the IFA (Internationale FunkAusstellung Berlin) 2023 in Berlin on Friday (September 1) as the company’s first Windows gaming handheld device. It features an 8.8-inch QHD+ display with up to 144Hz refresh rate and is powered by the new AMD Ryzen Z1 series of processors. The handheld gaming console runs on Windows 11 Home with Legion Space software on top. It comes with Hall Effect joysticks for improved responsiveness and accuracy during gaming sessions. The Lenovo Legion Go will compete with the likes of Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, and Asus ROG Ally (Review).Lenovo Legion Go price, availability The Lenovo Legion…
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks to the media near the entrance of the Fulton County Jail, as former U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in to be processed after his Georgia indictment, in Atlanta, Aug. 24, 2023.Dustin Chambers | ReutersWASHINGTON — The White House pushed back on Republican talk of impeachment as “a partisan stunt” after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., vowed to not vote for funding the government without proceedings.”I’ve already decided I will not vote to fund the government unless we have passed an impeachment inquiry,” Greene said.During a town hall Thursday night…
Play video content TMZ.com Shawn Stockman is doubling down on his comments about Britney Spears — this after catching flak from fans — ’cause he says not all conservatorships are created equal. We got the Boyz II Men singer at LAX again Monday, and it sounds like there was some backlash from #FreeBritney folks over what he said last week regarding her situation … namely, he felt getting her back into a conservatorship might be a good idea. Play video content Check out what he has to say about it now … it’s pretty insightful. Essentially, Shawn explains the apparatus…
In this articleTSLAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Tesla Model 3 vehicle on an auto carrier in front of a store in Rocklin, California, U.S., on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Tesla Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 26.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTesla shares dropped 5% on Friday after the electric car company cut prices on some models in the U.S. and reduced the price for its premium driver assistance software.The stock closed at $245.01. It’s still up almost 100% this year after gaining 2.7% for the week.While Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said in…
Once upon a time, Yellowstone seemed to have no end in sight. All of that came crashing down this year amid rumors of unrest on the set due to Kevin Costner’s supposed lack of availability to shoot the back half of Yellowstone Season 5. In recent months, Paramount Network has canceled the highly-rated series but still intends on filming and airing a final batch of episodes to halt the Dutton family’s present-day drama. Costner spoke publicly about his departure for the first time during a child support hearing as part of his divorce proceedings from his wife, Christine Baumgartner. Initial…
After rising steadily since January, home prices may now be turning lower again.The latest read on home prices shows they hit another all-time high in July, rising 2.3% from the same month last year, according to Black Knight. That’s a bigger annual gain than the roughly 1% recorded in June, and August’s annual comparison will likely be even larger because prices began falling hard last August.But prices weakened month to month, according to Black Knight. While still gaining, which they usually do at this time of year, the gains fell below their 25-year average. This after significantly outdoing their historical…
Mario Tama | Getty ImagesBoth jobseekers and policymakers can take solace in the current state of the U.S. job market, according to labor economists.Largely, that’s because it’s cooling gradually but remains strong — a sort of Goldilocks scenario whereby workers can find jobs with relative ease but the Federal Reserve likely won’t see the need to keep raising interest rates, experts said.”I think the labor market is near-perfect,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics. “It’s resilient but easing.”More from Personal Finance:8 easy — and cheap — ways to cut your carbon emissionsStudent loan interest resumes today — what…
It’s been years since Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth ended their relationship after less than a year of marriage. In many ways, songs have mapped every ebb and flow of this couple’s decade-long relationship. The pair initially fell in love and grew apart between The Last Song’s “When I Look at You” and Cyrus’ own song “Wrecking Ball.” “Malibu” solidified their reconciliation, and Cyrus’ single “Slide Away” marked their end. In 2020, her single “Midnight Sky” offered her perspective on the divorce, a year after the fact. And in 2023, Cyrus’ song “Flowers” sparked more theories her breakup from Hemsworth…
After his wife dies in a sudden car crash, Jimmy Laird numbs his pain for a year. He stays up all night, drinking and doing coke and paying for some kind of company with women. He’s not healing, but he is coping. He tries to stifle his grief, which is so much easier than actually feeling it. Understandable, except he is a therapist, and a father. He knows better. He should be present for his daughter, not partying in his backyard while his teenager is in the house. Shrinking, an Apple TV show created by Bill Lawrence, the same person…
MGM’s raunchy high school comedy Bottoms by Emma Seligman, a surprising teen girl version of Fight Club, is punching into a lot more theaters this week, expanding from ten to 715 nationwide. The numbers so far look solid and MGM might be hoping for anything in the $2.5+ million range over the three days. It had an good start with last weekend’s limited 10-theater opening in NYC, LA, San Francisco and Austin bringing in more than $500k, one of the best per-theater openings of that size post Covid (even with $4 tickets Sunday). Cume to date tops $724k for the Rachel Sennott…
SAN FRANCISCO – Ball Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global won contracts, announced Aug. 31, to design microwave sounders for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Under the contracts awarded by NASA on behalf of NOAA, the four companies will conduct studies and design sounders for the Near-Earth Orbit Network, or NEON, NOAA’s next generation of polar-orbiting weather satellites, Colorado-based Ball and OMS, and Virginia-based Northrop Grumman each claimed $5 million firm-fixed-price contracts to design NOAA’s Sounder for Microwave-Based Applications (SMBA). The value of Virginia-based Spire’s contract was approximately $4.7 million. After the firms complete the 12-month…
Canada on Friday unveiled draft rules for a law designed to compel Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms pay news outlets, saying Ottawa was addressing the companies’ concerns that they may be facing an uncapped liability.Canada’s Online News Act, part of a global trend to make Internet giants pay for news, became law in June and is expected to come into effect in December.Facebook and Google will need to voluntarily negotiate deals with news publishers in Canada and pay a portion of their global revenues, based on a set calculation, according to the draft regulations.Both companies have said that the law is…