The Amazing Properties of Cornstarch and Water
At the right ratio, a blend of water and cornstarch displays some mysterious qualities. It’s a liquid until you throw a bowling ball on it….
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Physicists Discover New Form of Matter, Excitonium
Abbamonte group achieves first-ever measurement of excitonium collective modes and first observation of soft plasmon in any material. Excitonium has a team of researchers at…
Kiel Physicists Store Data on a Single Molecule
Over the past few years, the building blocks of storage media have gotten even smaller. But further miniaturization of the current technology is hindered by…
Researchers Decode the Mechanics of Platelet-Matrix Composites
How a material breaks may be the most important property to consider when designing layered composites that mimic those found in nature. A method by…
Quantum Simulator Could Shed Light on a Host of Complex Processes
Programming a computer is generally a fairly arduous process, involving hours of coding, not to mention the laborious work of debugging, testing, and documenting to…
Physicists Demonstrate A New Way To Manipulate Quantum Bits of Matter
Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. In a paper published today in the journal…
MIT Physicists Develop a Faster Way to Make Bose-Einstein Condensates
Using a new process of laser cooling, MIT physicists have invented a new technique to cool atoms into condensates faster than the conventional method while…
Los Alamos Uses Quantum Dots to Successfully Amplify Light
In a new study, Los Alamos researchers have shown that they can successfully amplify light using electrically excited films of the chemically synthesized semiconductor nanocrystals…
HAWC Collaboration Sheds Light on Antimatter Puzzle
A mountaintop observatory about four hours east of Mexico City, built and operated by an international team of scientists, has captured the first wide-angle view…
A New Technique to Map Energy and Momentum of Electrons
For the first time, physicists have developed a technique that can peer deep beneath the surface of a material to identify the energies and momenta…
NIST Physicist Asks, “What is the Computational Power of the Cosmos?”
Can a close look at the universe give us solutions to problems too difficult even for a planet-sized computer to solve? In this video,The Computational…
New MIT Study Details How Droplets Can “Levitate” on Liquid Surfaces
A drop or two of cold cream in hot coffee can go a long way toward improving one’s morning. But what if the two liquids…
Laser-Produced Plasma Sheds Light on Cosmic Rays, Solar Eruptions
Scientists reveal that laser-produced plasma can provide insight into bursts of subatomic particles that occur in deep space. Such findings could help scientists understand cosmic…
MSU Researchers Develop Nanostructured Gas Sensors
Scientists from the Physics Department of Moscow State University and their colleagues have discovered a mechanism that allows gas sensors, based on nanocrystalline metal oxides,…
BaBar Experiment Narrows Down the Search for Dark Photons
New analysis of data from the BaBar experiment rules out theorized particle’s explanation for muon mystery. In its final years of operation, a particle collider…
NIST Researchers Develop Nanoscale Devices That Respond to the Angle of Incident Light
Imagine a miniature device that suffuses each room in your house with a different hue of the rainbow—purple for the living room, perhaps, blue for…
Physicists Develop Data Bus for Quantum Computers
The quantum world is fragile; error correction codes are needed to protect the information stored in a quantum object from the deteriorating effects of noise….
Physicists Demonstrate Probing Topology by “Heating”
Physicists reveal an intriguing manifestation of topology, which appears in the depletion rate of topological states of matter in response to an external drive. In…
