Making new materials with micro-explosions
Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material.
View ArticleUltrasonic fingerprint sensor may take smartphone security to new level
Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iPhone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger's surface, which can be spoofed fairly easily with a printed image of the...
View ArticleScientists propose an enhanced new model of the source of a mysterious...
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a detailed model of the source of a puzzling limitation on fusion reactions. The findings,...
View ArticlePhysicists shatter stubborn mystery of how glass forms
A physicist at the University of Waterloo is among a team of scientists who have described how glasses form at the molecular level and provided a possible solution to a problem that has stumped...
View ArticleNew method of quantum entanglement vastly increases how much information can...
A team of researchers led by UCLA electrical engineers has demonstrated a new way to harness light particles, or photons, that are connected to each other and act in unison no matter how far apart they...
View ArticleHow biological motors and molecules can be used to measure magnetic materials
Ludwig Maximilian University physicists were able to show how biological motors and molecules can be used to carry out precise measurements of magnetic materials.
View ArticleSamsung develops lithium-ion battery with nearly double the life
(Phys.org)—A team of researches affiliated with Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology, along with colleagues from other institutions in Korea has found a way to greatly extend lithium-ion battery...
View ArticleStudy of storage material magnesium hydride may give boost to hydrogen cars
The dream of a cleaner, greener transportation future burns brightly in the promise of hydrogen-fueled, internal combustion engine automobiles. Modern-day versions of such vehicles run hot, finish...
View ArticleUsing muons from cosmic rays to find fraying infrastructure
In the United States, electricity comes with the flip of a switch and heat arrives with the push of a button. Behind such convenience lies a massive infrastructure network that produces and distributes...
View ArticleNew model of cosmic stickiness favors 'Big Rip' demise of universe
The universe can be a very sticky place, but just how sticky is a matter of debate.
View ArticleSnake skin inspired surfaces smash records, providing 40 percent friction...
Snake skin inspired surfaces smash records, providing an astonishing 40% friction reduction in tests of high performance materials.
View ArticleThe cosmic start of lightning
Even though lightning is a common phenomenon, the exact mechanism triggering a lightning discharge remains elusive. Scientists at the Dutch national research institute for mathematics CWI, the...
View ArticleInvisibility cloak aspirations inspire new metasurface material
A fabricated metasurface that leads to improved antenna performance may well represent the first demonstrated practical application for invisibility cloaks, according to Penn State researchers.
View ArticleHow oversized atoms could help shrink
"Lab-on-a-chip" devices – which can carry out several laboratory functions on a single, micro-sized chip – are the result of a quiet scientific revolution over the past few years. For example, they...
View ArticleProducing spin-entangled electrons
A team from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, along with collaborators from several Japanese institutions, have successfully produced pairs of spin-entangled electrons and demonstrated, for...
View ArticleUltra-stable JILA microscopy technique tracks tiny objects for hours
JILA researchers have designed a microscope instrument so stable that it can accurately measure the 3D movement of individual molecules over many hours—hundreds of times longer than the current limit...
View ArticleCould your smartphone one day tell you you're pregnant?
Researchers at the Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT), University of Hanover, Germany, have developed a self-contained fiber optic sensor for smartphones with the potential for use in a wide...
View ArticleResearchers demonstrate measurement system able to resolve quantum fluctuations
In this universe, anything that can vibrate will vibrate, and no oscillator is ever truly at rest.
View ArticleNew test of hydrogen sulfide backs up superconducting claim
(Phys.org)—A combined team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute and Johannes Gutenberg University, both in Germany has backed up the findings of prior research indicting hydrogen sulfide...
View ArticleFreezing single atoms to absolute zero with microwaves brings quantum...
Physicists at the University of Sussex have found a way of using everyday technology found in kitchen microwaves and mobile telephones to bring quantum physics closer to helping solve enormous...
View ArticleSoundproofing with quantum physics
Sebastian Huber and his colleagues show that the road from abstract theory to practical applications needn't always be very long. Their mechanical implementation of a quantum mechanical phenomenon...
View ArticleTo conduct, or to insulate? That is the question
A new study has discovered mysterious behaviour of a material that acts like an insulator in certain measurements, but simultaneously acts like a conductor in others. In an insulator, electrons are...
View ArticleResearch clarifies the physics of water repelling surfaces
Researchers have gained valuable insights into the behaviour of water on strongly hydrophobic (water-repelling) surfaces. Understanding this behaviour should help scientists develop new types of...
View ArticleA 'movie' of ultrafast rotating molecules at a hundred billion per second
Can you imagine how subnano-scale molecules make an ultrafast rotation at a hundred billion per second? Do the ultrafast rotating subnano-scale molecules show a wave-like nature rather than...
View ArticleMulti-purpose sensor measures temperature, vibrations and electric fields...
Glass fibres can do more than transport data. A special type of glass fibre can also be used as a high-precision multi-purpose sensor, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of...
View ArticleEvidence for stable room-temperature skyrmions
In research published in Nature Communications, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, along with collaborators in Europe and Japan, have identified a class of...
View ArticleResearchers find the organization of the human brain to be nearly ideal
Have you ever wondered why the human brain evolved the way it did?
View ArticleLight-induced magnetic waves in materials engineered at the atomic scale
A new study discovers how the sudden excitation of lattice vibrations in a crystal can trigger a change of the magnetic properties of an atomically-thin layer that lies on its surface.
View ArticleRevealed: Positronium's behavior in particle billiards
Collision physics can be like a game of billiards. Yet in the microscopic world, the outcome of the game is hard to predict. Fire a particle at a group of other particles, and they may scatter, combine...
View ArticleGood quantum states and bad quantum states
It is impossible to obtain all information about a large quantum system consisting of hundreds or thousands of particles. A new technique allows to describe such systems in terms of 'continuous matrix...
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