Life’s Building Blocks May Not Have Originated on This Planet
An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life — nucleobases — could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars….
An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life — nucleobases — could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars….
The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate superconductors….
Single atoms work great as catalysts, but they usually don’t stay single for long. Argonne scientists are part of a team that uses high-temperature shock…
Light work for superconductors: Laser light compels iron compound to conduct power without resistance For the first time, researchers successfully used laser pulses to excite…
PAXEL, a new type of photonic integrated circuit device that uses a novel computing architecture, shows promise for high-speed, energy-efficient computing. A group of researchers…
Physicists manipulate energy valleys in tungsten disulfide, with potential applications in quantum computing. New research on two-dimensional tungsten disulfide (WS2) could open the door to…
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet…
Major steps forward in understanding neutrino properties. In the quest to prove that matter can be produced without antimatter, the GERDA experiment at the Gran…
Researchers combine nano-optics and organic chemistry to measure complex light landscapes in the tight focus of a laser beam in a study published in Nature…
Physicists theorize a novel way to explore the nature of dark matter with lasers. Dark matter is only known by its effect on massive astronomical…
Quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity form the bedrock of the current understanding of physics — yet the two theories don’t seem to…
Photons interact on chip-based system with unprecedented efficiency. To process information, photons must interact. However, these tiny packets of light want nothing to do with…
Joseph Formaggio explains the discovery that the ghostly particle must be no more than 1 electronvolt, half as massive as previously thought. An international team…
The origin of matter remains a complex and open question. A novel experimental approach — described in Nature Physics — could be exploited to better…
High-quality medical images produced using a microchip prove researcher’s fabrication method can be used to miniaturize sensing, imaging, and optical communication systems. Scientists in Christine…
Researchers experimentally determined a property of cadmium called the magic wavelength which is considered essential for the development of the most accurate clocks ever envisaged….
A team from Dartmouth College and MIT has designed and conducted the first lab test to successfully detect and characterize a class of complex, “non-Gaussian”…
Scientists illuminate secrets of a nanomaterial that is both twisted and untwisted at the same time. The material developed at University of Bath allows for…