New Nanofabrication Process for Metamaterials
The development of metamaterials continues to move forward as physicists at Harvard have used short and powerful laser pulses to create 3-D patterns of tiny…
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X-Ray Lasers Show Difference in Iron and Nickel Spins
While using X-ray pulses, a team of scientists was able to observe how magnetism in nickel and iron atoms works, which could lead to faster…
Graphene Submerged in Electrically Neutral Liquid Sets Mobility Record
It has been extremely difficult to create graphene-based devices that reliably operate at room temperature and pressure, until now. By submerging sheets of graphene in…
New Type of Neutrino Oscillation Discovered at Daya Bay
After tens of thousands of interactions of electron antineutrinos at Daya Bay, data revealed a new type of neutrino oscillation, which was measured with unmatched…
Molecules as Antennas Transmit Signals of Single Photons
In recent experiments, Scientists from the Max Planck Institute and ETH Zurich have transmitted single photons between the smallest antennas in the world, i.e. between…
Nuclear Clock Accurate to 19 Decimal Places
A newly proposed nuclear clock would be nearly 100 times more accurate than the best atomic clocks we have now, would be accurate to 19…
First Real-Time Image of Two Atoms Vibrating in a Molecule
Using laser-induced electron diffraction, a team of physicists recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule. While using common atmospheric gases…
First Spectroscopic Measurements of Antihydrogen
A new study published today shows the first measurements of the antihydrogen spectrum. The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has been researching antimatter and has routinely…
More Data of Elusive Higgs Boson from Defunct US Tevatron Collider
The elusive Higgs boson might have been spotted in the data collected by the Tevatron, a now shuttered collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. The…
Atomtronics May Provide Access to New Quantum Phases of Matter
A new study in the field of atomtronics shows how magnetic atoms sort themselves into numerous phases depending on the magnetic joystick controlling the strength…
Dynamics of a System of Ultracold Potassium Atoms
A new publication demonstrates that the dynamics of a system of ultracold potassium atoms, trapped in an optical lattice, depend surprisingly strongly on the particle…
Researchers Explain Mysterious Nanoscale Crop Circles
Three years after their initial encounter, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have explained what’s happening with the “nanoscale crop…
Nucleons in a Dense Nucleus Exceed 25 Percent of the Speed of Light
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratories have demonstrated that a quarter of the nucleons in a dense nucleus…
Researchers Discover Electrical Switch for Magnetic Current
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute used a short electric pulse to change the magnetic transport properties of a material sandwich consisting of a ferroelectric…
Evidence of Elusive Majorana Fermions Raises Possibilities for Quantum Computing
It’s been reported that researchers in the Leo Kouwenhoven group, based out of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, might have beaten several…
Researchers Unveil the World’s Most Precise Measurement of the W Boson Mass
Based on data gathered at the Tevatron accelerator, researchers from the CDF collaboration have just unveiled the world’s most precise measurement of the W boson…
Iron-Based Crystal Superconductor Breaks High-Temperature Record
Superconductivity, a phenomenon that works only at temperatures close to absolute zero, has been proven to work at higher temperatures, as much as 70 kelvin….
Possible Mistakes Found in Faster Than Light Neutrino Measurement
Back in September, the revolutionary claim that the OPERA collaboration had measured neutrinos traveling faster than the speed has light is now in doubt, as…