Science Made Simple: What Is Radioactivity?
Radioactivity is the release of energy from the decay of the nuclei of certain kinds of atoms and isotopes. Atomic nuclei consist of protons and neutrons…
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Scientists Make Pivotal Discovery in Quantum and Classical Information Processing
Scientists tame photon-magnon interaction. Working with theorists in the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)…
Studying Chaos Phenomena With One of the World’s Fastest Cameras
There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces…
New Theory Proposed to Explain One Dimensional Quantum Liquids Formation
Liquids are ubiquitous in nature — from the water that we consume daily to superfluid helium which is a quantum liquid appearing at temperatures as…
Physicists May Have Found Dark Matter: X-rays Surrounding “Magnificent 7” May Be Traces of Theorized Particle
Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around a group of neutron stars. A new study, led by…
Holographic X-ray Nano-Tomography Reveals How Mother-of-Pearl Self-Assembles Into a Perfect Structure
Mollusks build shells to protect their soft tissues from predators. Nacre, also known as the mother of pearl, has an intricate, highly regular structure that…
Physicists Find New State of Matter in a One-Dimensional Quantum Gas – “Beyond My Wildest Conception”
By adding some magnetic flair to an exotic quantum experiment, physicists produced an ultra-stable one-dimensional quantum gas with never-before-seen “scar” states – a feature that…
First Nanomaterial Developed That Demonstrates “Photon Avalanching” – Extreme Nonlinear Optical Behavior and Efficiency
Researchers develop the first nanomaterial that demonstrates “photon avalanching;” finding could lead to new applications in sensing, imaging, and light detection. Researchers at Columbia Engineering…
Righting a Wrong, Nuclear Physicists Improve Precision of Neutrino Research
Led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a new study clears up a discrepancy regarding the biggest contributor of unwanted background signals…
Surprising Discovery of Unexpected Quantum Behavior in Insulators Suggests Existence of Entirely New Type of Particle
In a surprising discovery, Princeton physicists have observed an unexpected quantum behavior in an insulator made from a material called tungsten ditelluride. This phenomenon, known…
Quantum Entanglement of Electrons Using Heat
Quantum entanglement is key for next-generation computing and communications technology, Aalto researchers can now produce it using temperature differences. A joint group of scientists from…
Hidden Symmetry Could Be Key to Ultra-Powerful Quantum Computers
Researchers have found a way to protect highly fragile quantum systems from noise, which could aid in the design and development of new quantum devices,…
Ultra-Fast Gas Flows Through Tiniest Holes in One-Atom-Thin Membranes – Validates Century-Old Equation of Fluid Dynamics
Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Pennsylvania identify ultra-fast gas flows through atomic-scale apertures in 2D…
Quantum Nanodevice Can Be Both a Heat Engine and Refrigerator at the Same Time
A multitasking nanomachine that can act as a heat engine and a refrigerator at the same time has been created by RIKEN engineers. The device…
Von Kármán’s Vortices: Key Mathematical Insight About Swirling, Asymmetrical Flow Patterns
On a clear day, the towering peaks on Fogo, Santa Antão, and São Nicolau stand out amid the flatter islands of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)….
Science Made Simple: What Are Quarks and Gluons?
Quarks and gluons are the building blocks of protons and neutrons, which in turn are the building blocks of atomic nuclei. Scientists’ current understanding is…
Future Zero-Emissions Power Plants: Scientists Collaborate on Development of Commercial Fusion Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion…
Detective Work in Theoretical Physics: Comprehensive Review of Physics of Interacting Particles
Scientific articles in the field of physics are mostly very short and deal with a very restricted topic. A remarkable exception to this is an…