Complex shapes of photons to boost future quantum technologies
As the digital revolution has now become mainstream, quantum computing and quantum communication are rising…
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Confirmation of an auroral phenomenon discovered by Finns
A new auroral phenomenon discovered by Finnish researchers a year ago is probably caused by…
ERC Advanced Grant for professor Tilman Pfau
Cutting-edge research on quantum physics of fermionic matter with long-range interactions
Scientists see chemical short-range order in medium-entropy alloy
Chinese scientists have made direct observations in face-centered cubic VCoNi (medium)-entropy alloys (MEA) and for…
CCNY team makes single photon switch advance
The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is…
Physicists net neutron star gold from measurement of lead
Nuclear physicists make new, high-precision measurement of the layer of neutrons that encompass the lead nucleus, revealing new information about neutron stars
Fooling fusion fuel: How to discipline unruly plasma
The process designed to harvest on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and…
Study paves the way for new photosensitive materials
Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification,…
Study could lead to production of more efficient optoelectronic devices
Resonant-tunneling diodes are used in high-frequency oscillators, wave emitters and detectors, logic gates, photodetectors, and optoelectronic circuits. The study was a collaboration between Brazilian and German researchers.
Scientists report remarkable enhancement of α-particle clustering in uranium isotopes
It is always exciting to find new isotopes with extreme neutron/proton numbers in nuclear physics…
Study sheds light on stellar origin of 60Fe
Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and…
The future of particle accelerators is here
Behind the scenes of the Electron-Ion Collider, green accelerators that waste no energy, and chiral magnetic effect results debuting this summer
German National HPC Centre provides resources to look for cracks in the standard model
Physicists have spent 20 years trying to more precisely measure the so-called “magnetic moment” of subatomic particles called muons. Findings published this week call into question long-standing assumptions of particle physics.
Two research projects to be receive funds from Samsung Science & Technology Foundation
DGIST announced that Prof. June.M. Kwak, and Prof. Chang-Hee Cho are selected for the research…
X-ray study recasts role of battery material from cathode to catalyst
Newly clarified reactions point to novel applications for a long-studied lithium-rich battery material
Graphene: Everything under control
Research team demonstrates control mechanism for quantum material
More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass…
FSU engineering researchers visualize the motion of vortices in superfluid turbulence
Nobel laureate in physics Richard Feynman once described turbulence as “the most important unsolved problem…
Visionary bone damage study
X-rays confirm promise of new luminescent markers
Particle physics: Will muons lead us towards a new physics?
Muons, particles akin to electrons, have kepts physicists’ heads spinning for more than a decade,…
Field guides: Argonne scientists bolster evidence of new physics in Muon g-2 experiment
Scientists are testing our fundamental understanding of the universe, and there’s much more to discover….
Scientists reveal elusive inner workings of antioxidant enzyme with therapeutic potential
Mitochondria, known as the powerhouses within human cells, generate the energy needed for cell survival….
Story tips: Mighty Mo material, fueling retooling, goods on the move, doubling concrete and more
Manufacturing – Mighty Mo Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists proved molybdenum titanium carbide, a refractory…
Joint French-Japanese laboratory in Tokyo for physics at the largest and smallest scales
* The CNRS and the University of Tokyo have set up a laboratory for physics…
Massive X-ray screening identifies promising candidates for COVID drugs
DESY’s X-ray lightsource PETRA III reveals existing active substances binding to key virus protein
3D design leads to first stable and strong self-assembling 1D nanographene wires
Nanographene is flexible, yet stronger than steel. With unique physical and electronic properties, the material…
Researchers develop third and final ‘made-to-order’ nanotube synthesis technique
The current method of manufacturing carbon nanotubes–in essence rolled up sheets of graphene–is unable to…
Titanium dioxide stars in the first IFJ PAN research at the Cracow synchrotron
Few compounds are as important to industry and medicine today as titanium dioxide. Despite the…
Researchers realize synthetic gauge fields in single optomechanical resonator
The research team led by Prof. GUO Guangcan and Dr. DONG Chunhua from the University…
Spin-to-charge conversion achieves 95% overall qubit readout fidelity
The team led by Professor DU Jiangfeng and Professor WANG Ya from the Chinese Academy…
Search for strange Skyrmion phenomenon fails but finds stranger magnetic beaded necklace
Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin magnetic films, that they have called an incommensurate spin crystal.
Micro-environmental influences on artificial micromotors
New experiments reveal the characteristic ways in which self-propelled ‘Janus particles’ with charged coatings will slide across or move away from charged boundaries in their surrounding environments
New study sews doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe
Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark energy, a substance that makes it possible for the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. But in a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers te
A new technique to synthesize superconducting materials
University of Rochester researchers reduce the pressure required by separating hydrogen atoms from yttrium with a thin film of palladium
A Skoltech method helps model the behavior of 2D materials under pressure
Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) have developed a method…
Study shows promise of quantum computing using factory-made silicon chips
A single qubit on a standard silicon transistor chip has been successfully demonstrated as “quantum capable” in a new study by the UCL spinout Quantum Motion, led by researchers at UCL and Oxford University.
New study discovers ancient meteoritic impact over Antarctica 430,000 years ago
Research led by the University of Kent’s School of Physical Sciences has found new evidence of a low-altitude meteoritic touchdown event reaching the Antarctic ice sheet 430,000 years ago
Why are optical refractive indices so small?
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon cover, voted the greatest classical rock album of…
A second look at sunlight
Researchers urge a closer examination of sunlight’s efficacy in inactivating the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Researchers observe new isotope of fluorine
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis reported the first observations of a new form…
Standing out: Unusual magnetic transition in perovskite oxide can help boost spintronics
Transition metal perovskites oxides exhibit several desirable properties, including high-temperature superconductivity and electrocatalysis. Now, scientists…
String theory solves mystery about how particles behave outside a black hole photon sphere
A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli…
Revealing nano big bang — Scientists observe the first milliseconds of crystal formation
New study shows how stable materials have unstable beginnings
The imaginary part of quantum mechanics really exists!
For almost a century, physicists have been intrigued by the fundamental question: why are complex…
The case of the cloudy filters: Solving the mystery of the degrading sunlight detectors
More than 150 years ago, the Sun blasted Earth with a massive cloud of hot…
How tiny machines become capable of learning
Team of physicists led by Professor Frank Cichos develop learning microswimmers
Natural Sciences students’ research published in prestigious journal
A collaborative research project by team of undergraduate students from the University of Exeter’s Natural…
New ‘bi-molecule’ with multiple technological applications discovered
University of Granada scientist discovers a new type of ‘bi- molecule’ that could help develop quantum sensors with multiple technological applications
Exploring the nanoworld in 3D
On the nanometric scale (one billionth of a metre), materials can feature new properties. A…
Effective Field Theories and the nature of the universe
Effective Field Theories were introduced to simplify the mathematics involved in unifying interactions into the Standard Model of particle physics. An article in EPJ H presents Steven Weinberg’s recent lecture on the development of these theories.