Chemical Bond Making & Breaking Recorded in Action – 500,000x Smaller Than the Width of a Human Hair
Ever since it was proposed that atoms are building blocks of the world, scientists have been trying to understand how and why they bond to…
Ever since it was proposed that atoms are building blocks of the world, scientists have been trying to understand how and why they bond to…
A 50-year-old puzzle in statistical mechanics has been solved by an international team of researchers who have proved that two-dimensional (2D) liquids have fundamentally different…
Researchers at EPFL have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that has allowed them to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas…
A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion — the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the “angel particle” —…
Stanford researchers build a particle accelerator that fits on a chip, miniaturizing a technology that can now find new applications in research and medicine. Just…
Theoretical calculations reveal that when impacted by positrons of particular energies, spherical nanoparticles release unstable electron-positron pairs, with signals dominating in the same direction as…
Atomic clocks are used around the world to precisely tell time. Each “tick” of the clock depends on atomic vibrations and their effects on surrounding…
International Research Team Lead by Kiel University Developed More Stable Spin States Spintronics or spin electronics in contrast to conventional electronics uses the spin of…
Crystallization is the physical phenomenon of the transformation of disordered molecules in a liquid or gas phase into a highly ordered solid crystal through two…
A team of scientists in Hungary recently published a paper that hints at the existence of a previously unknown subatomic particle. The team first reported…
Heat Energy Leaps Through Empty Space, Thanks to Quantum Fluctuations If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know…
A miscalculated Fluids Lab demonstration leads to a new understanding of how particles accumulate in lakes and oceans. A team of mathematicians from the University…
Understanding the behavior of materials at their interfaces — where they connect to and interact with other materials — is central to engineering a variety…
A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in…
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…
In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a group of researchers from the Shenyang Jianzhu University in China provide an…
Scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser. Called XLEAP, the new method developed by SLAC will provide sharp views…
Fusion by strong lasers: HZDR scientists want to use quantum mechanics to trigger the fusion of atomic nuclei at lower energies. Nuclear physics usually involves…