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Researchers develop photonic crystal light converter
Spectroscopy is the use of light to analyze physical objects and biological samples. Different kinds of light can provide different kinds of information. Vacuum ultraviolet light is useful as it...
Quantum Tunneling Is Not Instantaneous, Physicists Show
A new experiment tracks the transit time of particles burrowing through barriers, revealing previously unknown details of a deeply counterintuitive phenomenon -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Chemists make tough plastics recyclable
Thermosets, which include epoxies, polyurethanes, and rubber used for tires, are found in many products that have to be durable and heat-resistant, such as cars or electrical appliances. One drawback to these materials...
New research finds graphene can act as surfactant
New research into graphene flakes has discovered that the material can act as a surfactant, for the first time demonstrating how it can be a versatile 2-D stabiliser ideal for...
The Chicks: Lady A lawsuit 'goes against the point' of name change
The Chicks, formerly known as The Dixie Chicks, weighed in on the band Lady A suing blues singer Anita White.
Researchers diffract a beam of organic molecules
A team of researchers from Austria, Germany, and the U.K. has succeeded in diffracting a beam of organic molecules. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the...
Highly efficient method to synthesize ultra-high molecular weight polyisoprene rubber
Branched ultra-high molecular weight polydiene rubbers possess remarkable mechanical properties, such as high tensile strength, high wet-slip resistance, and high damping performance. They are applied in high-performance tires and noise-reducing materials.
A new way to control experimentation with dreams
The study of dreams has entered the modern era in exciting ways, and researchers from MIT and other institutions have created a community dedicated to advancing the field, lending it...
Lawn edgers that keep your property from looking like a jungle
For the tidiest of lawns. (Kosuke Noma via Unsplash/)Lawn edgers are a perfect way to give your property a finished and polished look by keeping the grass along walkways, gardens, and driveways neat...
Thermal manipulation of plasmons in atomically thin films
Surface plasmons in graphene have been widely studied in the past decade due to their very appealing properties, such as the strong tunability of its optical properties through electrical gating...
Researchers find how enzyme environment alters the rate and direction of a reaction
As researchers look for ways to develop and improve everyday products ranging from fuel to medicines, enzymes provide nature's example of the control needed to make chemical reactions work in...
Valley Hall nanoscale lasers developed
Topological photonics underpins a promising paradigm for robust light manipulation, as well as smart design of optical devices with improved reliability and advanced functionalities that are governed by the nontrivial...
NFL cuts out preseason games due to COVID-19 pandemic
Players who'd hoped to win a roster spot on an NFL team by turning heads in the preseason will have to try during practice or wait until next year after...
Watch: Paris Hilton says she 'learned so much' about herself in new documentary
Paris Hilton discussed her upcoming documentary ,"This is Paris," on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," which was hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser.
Invention offers new option for monitoring heart health
An invention may turn one of the most widely used materials for biomedical applications into wearable devices to help monitor heart health.
While birds chirp, plasma shouldn't: New insight could advance fusion energy
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have furthered understanding of a barrier that can prevent doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks from operating...
Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output
As the Covid-19 shutdowns and stay-at-home orders brought much of the world’s travel and commerce to a standstill, people around the world started noticing clearer skies as a result of lower levels...
A new way to control experimentation with dreams
The study of dreams has entered the modern era in exciting ways, and researchers from MIT and other institutions have created a community dedicated to advancing the field, lending it legitimacy and expanding...
Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight and Long-Range Electric Cars
In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric vehicles (EVs) for hundreds of miles on a single charge, scientists have endeavored to replace the graphite anodes currently used...
Watch: Italian commune's 1,319.5-pound block of cheese breaks Guinness record
An Italian community captured a Guinness World Record when cheese-makers created a wheel of pecorino weighing in at 1,319.5 pounds.
New detection method turns silicon cameras into mid-infrared detectors
The MIR range of the electromagnetic spectrum, which roughly covers light in the wavelength regime between 3 to 10 micrometers, coincides with the energies of fundamental molecular vibrations. Utilizing this...
Synthetic dimensions enable a new way to construct higher-order topological insulators
Topological insulators have been an exciting field of research with fundamental interest as well as practical applications such as robust transport of electrons and light, and topological quantum computing. The...
Topological photonics in fractal lattices
Topological insulators are a new phase of matter unique for their insulating bulk and perfectly conducting edges. They have been at the forefront of condensed matter physics for the past...
A survey on optical memory and optical RAM technologies
Over the past decades, 'storing light' has appeared as a rather controversial concept, given that a photon's inherent nature hinders its spatial confinement. The first research efforts in demonstrating optical...
Mechanically activated ionic transport across single-digit carbon nanotubes
Nanofluidics, the field which studies nanoscale flows, has made considerable progress in recent years. The field is blossoming thanks to the development of new materials, in particular nanotubes and 2-D...
Working on the frontier of nanoparticle research
A field studying something very small is becoming very big: In the last decade, the field of nanoparticle research has exploded. At about one nanometer in size, nanoparticles are 100,000...
Physicists find ways to control gamma radiation
Researchers from Kazan Federal University, Texas A&M University and Institute of Applied Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences) found ways to direct high frequency gamma radiation by means of acoustics.
New material can generate hydrogen from salt and polluted water
Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with teams from the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague and Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem have developed a new 2-D...