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…
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…
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 is key for next-generation computing and communications technology, Aalto researchers can now produce it using temperature differences. A joint group of scientists from…
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,…
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…
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…
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)….
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…
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…
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…
Comb of a Lifetime: A New Method for Fluorescence Microscopy Fluorescence microscopy is widely used in biochemistry and life sciences because it allows scientists to…
Sometimes, the inside of a material can determine what happens on the outside. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam has devised a…
A new theoretical model enlightens the structure and the electrical properties of pure and doped ice. A fascinating substance with unique properties, ice has intrigued…
Until recently, scientists believed that only very massive nuclei could have excited zero-spin states of increased stability with a significantly deformed shape. Meanwhile, an international…
System provides practical method for measuring how breath travels when people talk or sing. A new method for visualizing breath that is exhaled while someone…
Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) discover a mechanism in antiferromagnets that could be useful for spintronic devices. They theoretically and experimentally…
Phase transitions describe dramatic changes in properties of a macroscopic system – like the transition from a liquid to a gas. Starting from individual ultracold…
In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature…