New Design for “Optical Ruler” Could Revolutionize Clocks, Telescopes, Telecommunications
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser…
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser…
Water is vital to the survival of life. However, water scarcity has become a major problem in modern society. Today, one-fifth of the world’s population…
Scientists at the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz have developed a completely new method of measuring squeezing – a potential starting point…
Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in less space and using less…
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes. Seeing light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn’t come as a big surprise…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from Iowa State University have developed a new approach for generating layered, difficult-to-combine,…
Face Coverings Made From Layered Cotton Fabric Likely Slow the Spread of COVID-19 Better Than Synthetics Researchers have completed a new study of how well…
Since World War I, the vast majority of American combat casualties have come not from gunshot wounds but from explosions. Today, most soldiers wear a…
A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer graphene. In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to…
Lab Unveils Catalyst That Can Break Problematic C-F Bonds Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in…
Graphene Nanoribbons might soon be much easier to produce. An international research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the University of Tennessee and…
Phase transitions play an important role in materials. However, in two-dimensional materials, the most famous of which is graphene, phase transitions can be very difficult…
Researchers at Delft University of Technology have developed a sensor that is only 11 atoms in size. The sensor is capable of capturing magnetic waves…
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite — to…
Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across…
EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials. With their pioneering nanotechnology, EPFL researchers have achieved…
Bioinspired research project a first step toward intrinsically translucent tissue. Octopuses, squids, and other sea creatures can perform a disappearing act by using specialized tissues…
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as…