How Face Mask Construction & Materials Matter for Containing Coughing & Sneezing Droplets
Simulated coughs and sneezes from mannequins show higher efficacy in multilayered, well-fitted cloth masks. While the use of face masks in public has been…
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Pentadiamond: Scientists Devise a Way to Build a Harder Diamond
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba use computer calculations to propose a new way to rearrange the carbon atoms in a diamond to make it…
Measure Squeezing With High-Precision Using Thermal Fluctuations of a Nanostring
Scientists at the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz have developed a completely new method of measuring squeezing – a potential starting point…
Order Out of Disorder in Ice
The glass structure of a material is often believed to mimic its corresponding liquid. Polyamorphism between ices has been used as a guide to elucidate…
Huge Blast Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface Kicks Off DUNE Excavation
It started with a blast. On June 23, construction company Kiewit Alberici Joint Venture set off explosives 3,650 feet beneath the surface in Lead, South…
“Spooky Popcorn of the Universe” Revealed: Quantum Fluctuations Can Jiggle Objects on the Human Scale
Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.” The universe, as seen through…
Exotic Never Before Seen Four-Quark Particle Discovered Using Large Hadron Collider
The LHCb collaboration has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks for the first time. The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) collaboration…
Rice Physics Lab’s Bright Idea Is Pure Gold
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes. Seeing light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn’t come as a big…
Seeing Is Believing: Comparing Facemask Effectiveness in Mitigating Transmission of COVID-19
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science researchers use flow visualization to qualitatively test facemasks and social distancing. Currently, there are no specific guidelines on…
Summer Intern Helps Develop New Model to Describe Defects and Errors in Quantum Computers
A summer internship in Bilbao, Spain, has led to a paper in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters for Jack Mayo, a Master’s student in…
Kinetic Misalignment: Case for Axion Origin of Dark Matter Gains Traction
New research findings from the IAS, University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley. In a new study of axion motion, researchers propose a scenario known as…
Introducing a New Isotope of the Human-Made Element Mendelevium
The making of mendelevium-244: In this video, Berkeley Lab project scientist Jennifer Pore describes how scientists working at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron created and confirmed…
Physicist’s 50-Year-Old Magnetic Structure Prediction Evidenced at Surprisingly Large Scales
Imaging Magnetic Instabilities Using Laser Accelerated Protons An international team of researchers highlighted two variants of Weibel’s instability. The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma…
Teleportation Is Indeed Possible – At Least in the Quantum World
Quantum teleportation is an important step in improving quantum computing. “Beam me up” is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series….
Solid-State Laser Refrigeration of Nanoscale Sensors Achieved – Could Revolutionize Bio-Imaging and Quantum Communication
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite — to…
At Long Last: An Answer to the Mystery Surrounding Matter and Antimatter
An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our universe has been…
Superconducting Magnets of the Future in the Making at CERN
Over the past thirty years, the exploration of the infinitely small has gone hand-in-hand with advances in superconducting magnets. The increasingly powerful hadron colliders, from…
Pathbreaking Platform for Quantum Simulation: A Metal-Like Quantum Gas
Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across…