In Remarkable Experiment, Scientists Create a Golden Drop of Metallic Water
Pure water is not a good conductor of electricity. It is, in fact, an electrical insulator. In order to conduct electricity, water must contain dissolved…
Pure water is not a good conductor of electricity. It is, in fact, an electrical insulator. In order to conduct electricity, water must contain dissolved…
To deter attempts to disable U.S. electrical utilities and to defend U.S. nuclear weapon systems from evolving technological threats, Sandia National Laboratories has begun two…
Tiny Quantum Sensors Made From Atomic Flaws Inside Diamond Anvils Watch Materials Transform Under Pressure Scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley convert diamonds’ atomic flaws…
University of California, Riverside, physics students design a table-top experiment for the classroom. Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain…
An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in…
Modern computer memory encodes information by switching magnetic bits within devices. Now, a ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering has…
Scientists showed for the first time the presence of unique magnetic transitions in peculiar structures similar to quasicrystals. In the world of materials science, many…
Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat. MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design…
Columbia researchers suggest radiation that lights the densest objects in our universe is powered by the interplay of turbulence and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fields….
Physicists find a way to eliminate unwanted damping. Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient – this is the goal that developers of electronic devices have been working…
Non-volatile control of magnetic anisotropy through change of electric polarization: Researchers from Kanazawa University use electrical polarization to control magnetic properties aiming for advanced memory…
Industrial-strength adhesive that debonds in a magnetic field means products can be dismantled and recycled, rather than thrown into landfill. Researchers at the University of…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers created and tested new wireless charging designs that may double the power density, resulting in a lighter weight system compared…
EPFL researchers, with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and IBM Research–Zurich, unravel novel dynamics in the interaction between light and mechanical motion with significant…
Scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apart. Light is the fastest way to distinguish right- and left-handed chiral molecules, which…
a Electrons have a negative charge, but they also behave like tiny magnets. This property of electrons, called spin, can be used to transport or…
Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of today’s digital, electronic age, providing us with a multitude of devices that benefit our modern life, including computers,…
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have replicated one of the most well-known electromagnetic effects in physics, the Hall effect, using radio waves…