Producing High-Quality Graphene Cheaply Using Carbon Monoxide
Researchers have proposed the first graphene synthesis technique that utilizes carbon monoxide as the carbon source. It is a fast and cheap way to produce…
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New Explosive Compound Synthesized From Strange World of High-Pressure Chemistry
Researchers from Skoltech, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Howard University, the University of Chicago, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Solid State Physics have…
Weird World of High-Pressure Chemistry Made Simple by Revision of a Key Chemical Concept
New electronegativity scale makes weird world of high-pressure chemistry simple. A Skoltech professor and his Chinese colleagues have revised a key chemical concept, electronegativity, and…
Researchers Probe Earth’s Turbulent Past To Explain Where Oceans Came From
The origin of water on our planet is a hot question: Water has immense implications for plate tectonics, climate, the origin of life on Earth,…
Single “Lucky” Substrain of Delta Variant Accounts for 90% of COVID-19 Infections in Russia
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues have looked at the genetic makeup of the dominant strain of the coronavirus, the delta variant, in Russia. According to them, just one…
New Imaging Method Visualizes Blood Flow in the Brain Down to a Single Blood Cell
Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Saratov State University have come up with an inexpensive method for visualizing blood flow in…
New Method Accurate Maps Brain Activity Despite Uncertainties in Patient Head Structure
Skoltech researchers have proposed a method for interpreting brain activity data that proved to be up to five times more accurate than the conventionally used technique…
New Research Calls Into Question Popular COVID Test
Study questions popular COVID test, proposes new marker of disease severity. Researchers from Skoltech, U.S. companies VirIntel and Argentys Informatics, and two Russian Academy of…
Optically Generated Quantum Fluids of Light Reveal Exotic Matter-Wave States in Condensed Matter Physics Breakthrough
Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Southampton, U.K., used all-optical methods to create an artificial lattice whose nodes house polaritons — quasiparticles that are half-light…
Russian Scientists Use Supercomputer To Probe Limits of Google’s Quantum Processor
CPQM’s Laboratory for Quantum Information Processing has collaborated with the CDISE supercomputing team “Zhores” to emulate Google’s quantum processor. Reproducing noiseless data following the same…
Physicists Build Mathematical “Playground” To Study Quantum Information Theory
In a new study from Skoltech and the University of Kentucky, researchers found a new connection between quantum information and quantum field theory. This work…
New Extremely Energy-Efficient Optical “Transistor” Speeds Up Computation Up to 1,000 Times
An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation…
New Polymer Can Boost Solar Cell Performance
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized a new conjugated polymer for organic electronics using two different chemical reactions and shown the impact of the…
Superconductivity Breakthrough: Stepping Stones to “Goldilocks” Superconductors
New cerium superhydrides become stepping stones to “Goldilocks” superconductors. Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from China have experimentally shown superconductivity in cerium superhydrides CeH9…
Giant Quantum Tornados in Hybrid Light-Matter System Reveal Complex Physical Phenomena
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from the UK have managed to create a stable giant vortex in interacting polariton condensates, addressing a known challenge…
Holes in the Solar Atmosphere: Artificial Intelligence Spots Coronal Holes to Automate Space Weather Predictions
Scientists from the University of Graz (Austria), Skoltech and their colleagues from the US and Germany have developed a new neural network that can reliably…
Scientists Discover a New Genetic Mutation That Distinguishes Modern Humans From Neanderthals
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Germany and the United States have analyzed the metabolomes of humans, chimpanzees, and macaques in muscle, kidney, and three…
Taming Silicon to Interact With Light for Next-Generation Microelectronics
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from RAS Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, ITMO University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and…
