Engineers Develop Surfaces That Can Actively Control How Fluids or Particles Move
Using a microtextured surface, with bumps or ridges just a few micrometers across, engineers have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively…
Using a microtextured surface, with bumps or ridges just a few micrometers across, engineers have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively…
Researchers from RIKEN detail the first supercomputer simulations of ‘spin–orbit’ forces between neutrons and protons in an atomic nucleus, opening the door for numerical modeling…
Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science have taken another step forward toward building quantum computers, demonstrating a photonic router for the first time. Weizmann…
New research from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science reveals how arrays of electrons trapped in nanoscale circuitry could form the basis for future…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have tested a new type of optical fiber with a hollow core, revealing that this type of optical fiber…
Newly published research signifies the reinterpretation of cold dark matter, opening up the possibility that it could be regarded as a very cold quantum fluid…
Researchers at SLAC used the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser to study the disintegration of buckyballs, carbon molecules shaped like soccer balls, when…
New supercomputer simulations showing the evolution of our “local Universe” from the Big Bang to the present day could improve understanding of dark matter. The…
New research from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich reveals that there is no correlation between moon phases and human sleep. Popular beliefs…
A newly published study establishes that quantum contextuality is a critical resource for quantum speed-up within the leading model for fault-tolerant quantum computation, magic state…
MIT researchers show the inner workings of a lithium-ion battery, revealing how a random solid solution affects the movement of ions through battery material. New…
By using refined techniques to compare the measurements of oxygen isotopes in lunar samples with those from Earth, a team of astronomers has provided new…
Scientists have discovered a stronger 3D material (cadmium arsenide) that has the same electronic properties as 2-D graphene. Scientists have discovered a material that has…
Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have come up with a way of producing graphene directly on materials such as large sheets of…
A new four-minute-long ScienceCast video examines the evidence that an El Niño is developing in the Pacific. Every ten days, the NASA/French Space Agency Jason-2…
Using light-field microscopy, researchers demonstrate the new technique that allowed them to simultaneously image the activity of every neuron in the entire brain of a…
Researchers from Purdue University have created superlattices from layers of metal titanium nitride and aluminum scandium nitride, bringing “hyperbolic metamaterials” closer to reality. West Lafayette,…
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute have succeeded in performing high-resolution spectroscopy and microscopy on individual rare earth ions in a crystal, opening the door…