A UCO team has applied the genome editing technique, which garnered a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, to unravel the functions of two genes involved in the metabolism of beans and that could not be characterized using other methodologies

In recent years, there have been attempts to describe the inside of a proton using quantum information tools, with partial success. It has been discovered that quantum entanglement in the proton is maximal, and that its main sources are constantly ‘boiling’ seas of virtual gluons and quarks. In the article just published, this new formalism has already become so universal that it correctly reproduces, for the first time, all currently available experimental data.

The phase and the group velocity of light propagating in conventional optical media cannot exceed the speed of light in vacuum. However, in so-called epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, light exhibits an infinite phase velocity and a vanishing group velocity for a particular color (frequency). So far, such properties were only observed in very few solids and nano-engineered materials. The present work opens a completely new avenue by transiently turning ordinary liquids, such as water and alcohols, into ENZ materials at terahertz (THz, 1 THz = 10¹² Hz) frequencies through the interaction with intense femtosecond laser pulses.