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UrduDGIST announced that Prof. June.M. Kwak, and Prof. Chang-Hee Cho are selected for the research funding program sponsored by ‘Samsung Science & Technology Foundation’. Prof. Kwak was selected for the Basic Science Research and will be carrying out the project…
Tag: ATOMIC/MOLECULAR/PARTICLE PHYSICS
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 through our atmosphere and give rise to shooting stars. Some of them reach the ground in the form of micrometeorites. An international program conducted for…
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 of classical physics.” Understanding turbulence in classical fluids like water and air is difficult partly because of the challenge in identifying the vortices swirling within…
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, because an experimental measurement of their magnetic properties (1) disagrees with theory. Could this be caused by unknown particles or forces? A new theoretical calculation…
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. What do touch screens, radiation therapy and shrink wrap have in common? They were all made possible by particle physics research. Discoveries of how the…
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. However, as a byproduct of this process, mitochondria also produce reactive oxygen species (ROS). At high enough concentrations, ROS cause oxidative damage and can even…
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 metal alloy that can withstand extreme temperature environments, can also be crack free and dense when produced with electron beam powder bed fusion. Their finding…
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 research at the largest and smallest scales of the Universe. * ILANCE is the CNRS’s seventh International Research Laboratory in Japan. From neutrinos to dark…
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 consists of carbon molecules only one atom thick arranged in a honeycomb shape. Still early in technological development, current fabrication methods require the addition of…
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 allow complete control over their diameter, length and type. This problem has recently been solved for two of the three different types of nanotubes, but…
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 variety and popularity of its applications, many issues related to the surface structure of materials made of this compound and the processes taking place therein…
Researchers realize synthetic gauge fields in single optomechanical resonator
The research team led by Prof. GUO Guangcan and Dr. DONG Chunhua from the University of Science and Technology of China realized synthetic gauge fields in a single optomechanical resonator by controlling geometric phase with the multimode interaction in the…
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 of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance of the University of Science and Technology of China put forward an innovative spin-to-charge conversion method…
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 for modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure. The research will help create pressure sensors based on silicene or other 2D materials. The paper…
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
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 of fluorine, the isotope 13 F, described in the journal Physical Review Letters. They made their discovery as part of an experiment conducted at the…
Why are optical refractive indices so small?
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon cover, voted the greatest classical rock album of all time, intended to portray the prism and dispersion of light into a rainbow as a certain metaphorical symbolism and a light show that was…
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 IPMU) Director Ooguri Hirosi and Project Researcher Matthew Dodelson on the string theoretical effects outside the black hole photon sphere has been selected for the…
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 at Tokyo Institute of Technology explore the structure and properties of a perovskite oxide, PbFeO3, in anticipation of the unusual charge distribution and exotic magnetic…
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 numbers so important in quantum mechanics, that is, numbers containing a component with the imaginary number i? Usually, it was assumed that they are only…
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 charged particles. This plasma blob generated a magnetic storm on Earth that caused sparks to leap out of telegraph equipment and even started a few…
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 Sciences department has been published in a prestigious academic journal. Lewis Howell, Eleanor Osborne and Alice Franklin have had their second-year research published in The…
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 French team together with an Austrian one recently took an important step forward by mapping one of these properties for the first time in 3D.…
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.
Searching for hints of new physics in the subatomic world
Particle physicists use lattice quantum chromodynamics and supercomputers to search for physics beyond the Standard Model
Reading between the diamonds
MSU scientists expand deep carbon story
NIST team compares 3 top atomic clocks with record accuracy over both fiber and air
In a significant advance toward the future redefinition of the international unit of time, the second, a research team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has compared three of the world’s leading atomic clocks with record…
Black hole shows magnetic fields surrounding it are strong enough to resist gravity
Wits University astrophysicists are the only two scientists on African continent that contributed to the study.
New results challenge leading theory in physics
When so-called beauty quarks are produced during the collision of high-energy proton beams in the Large Hadron Collider – the particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva – they decay almost immediately on the spot. Researchers of the Large Hadron Collider…
Skoltech scientist bridges the gap between quantum simulators and quantum computers
A researcher from Skoltech has filled in the gaps connecting quantum simulators with more traditional quantum computers, discovering a new computationally universal model of quantum computation, the variational model. The paper was published as a Letter in the journal Physical…
Modification of graphene using laser light
Graphene is a new exciting material, which has been characterized as “the wonder material” because of its excellent properties. Graphene gained widespread attention in 2010 when Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to researchers who discovered it. Graphene is only…
Diamond color centers for nonlinear photonics
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba use color center defects in diamonds to demonstrate second-order nonlinear optical effects, which may allow for extremely fast all-optical communication and computation devices.
Study could help develop biosensors for non-invasive diagnosis of diseases
Brazilian researchers tested the capacity of different materials to produce sensors for the detection of PCA3, a gene that is overexpressed in prostate cancer. The technique can also be used to diagnose infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
uOttawa research team plays key role in global detection of COVID-19
Did you know there’s a little bit of uOttawa inside COVID-19 test kits used worldwide? That’s because a team of researchers at the University of Ottawa’s Flow Chemistry Research Facility, within Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation ( CCRI ),…
The eukaryotic cell nucleus resembles the layout of a superstore
The headquarter of a eukaryotic cell is the nucleus, and most of the cell’s information and instructions are stored there in the form of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid). The DNA, which is twisted, rolled and bundled two-meter-long chain, together with protein…
Size matters when it comes to atomic properties
A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental questions about the relationship between the size of an atom and its other properties, such as electronegativity and energy. The results pave the way for advances…
HAWC: Are photons of extreme energies coming from the Galaxy’s largest accelerator?
For years, in the vastness of our galaxy, astrophysicists have been tracking down pevatrons – natural accelerators of particles with monstrous energies. Thanks to the HAWC Observatory for Cosmic Radiation, another probable trace of their existence has just been found:…