Tag: emerged
The First Sightings of Hofstadter’s Butterfly Emerged from a Happy Accident
Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm By Gayoung Lee edited by Lee Billings A team of scientists from Princeton University has measured the energies of electrons in a new class of quantum materials and has found them to…
How Early Could Life Have Emerged in the Universe?
Life May Have Emerged a Cosmic Eyeblink after the Big Bang New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang By Conor Feehly edited by Lee Billings An artist’s impression of some of the universe’s first stars, thought to have formed about 100 million years after…