Physicists Amplify Light Using Sound on a Silicon Chip
A team of physicists has discovered a way to greatly boost the intensity of light waves on a silicon microchip using the power of sound….
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Schrödinger’s Cat Gets a Second Box
A team of physicists from Yale University have given Schrödinger’s cat a second box to play in, and the result may help further the quest…
New Research May Help in the Development of Nano-Optical Transistors for a Photonic Computer
Researchers show that a single molecule allows a beam of light with a few photons to be controlled – a step towards the photonic computer….
A New Approach to Designing Hydrogen-Resistant Zirconium Alloys
Researchers from MIT have developed a new approach to designing hydrogen-resistant zirconium alloys, which could be useful in nuclear reactors. High-tech metal alloys are widely…
Scientists Develop a Light-Driven Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Nanosystem
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a nanoplasmonic system in the form of a pair of scissors that they can…
Physicists Test the Response Time of Electrons
Researchers from the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics generated for the first time visible flashes of light in attosecond dimensions. They dispatched the light-flashes to electrons…
New Research May Solve Longstanding Fusion Reactor Mystery
New research from MIT shows two types of turbulence within plasma that cause significant heat loss. Solving this problem could take the world a step…
New Results from Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Dark Matter Experiment
A new set of calibration techniques employed by LUX scientists has dramatically improved the sensitivity of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment. The Large Underground Xenon…
New Phase of Carbon Allows Researchers to Make Diamond Structures at Room Temperature
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of solid carbon and have developed a technique for using this carbon to make…
Physicists Achieve Quantum Entanglement at Room Temperature
A newly published study from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory demonstrates how macroscopic entanglement can be generated at room temperature and in…
Quantum Process Significantly Boosts the Energy That Can Be Harnessed from Sunlight
A newly published study details how a quantum process increases the number of electrons produced when light strikes a metal-dielectric interface. Researchers believe this finding…
Physicists Make First Ever Measurement of Antiproton Interactions
A team of scientists has announced the first ever measurement of antiproton interactions that make possible the existence of antimatter nuclei. The discovery gives physicists…
MicroBooNE Physics Experiment Detects Its First Neutrino Candidates
MicroBooNE started receiving its very first neutrino beam from the Fermilab Booster accelerator on October 15, 2015. On November 2, 2015, sceiietnsts released the first…
Glueball – A Particle Purely Made of Nuclear Force
Scientists from Vienna University believe they may have discovered the long-sought-after glueball, a particle composed of pure force. For decades, scientists have been looking for…
Engineered Viruses Provide Quantum-Based Enhancement of Energy Transport
In a newly published study, a team of scientists detail how they used genetically engineered viruses to enhance energy transport in genetically engineered excitonic networks….
New Results from the Large Hadron Collider
The latest experiment at Large Hadron Collider reports on the run’s very first particle collisions, and describes what an average collision between two protons looks…
Scientists Achieve New Quantum Teleportation Record
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have set a new record for quantum teleportation, sending quantum information in light particles over 100…
Physicists Determine the Three-Dimensional Coordinates of Individual Atoms
A team of physicists from UCLA have determined the three-dimensional positions of individual atoms for the first time, helping scientists better understand the structural properties…