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Researchers develop smaller, lighter radiation shielding
Researchers have developed a new technique for shielding electronics in military and space exploration technology from ionizing radiation. The new approach is more cost effective than existing techniques, and the...
Scientists entangled quantum memories linked over long distances
Physicists’ fantasies of a future quantum internet are a bit closer to reality. Scientists entangled two quantum “hard drives” that were linked by fibers tens of kilometers long. Entanglement, a type of ethereal...
Channeling Electrons for Ultrafast Spin Conductivity
Scientists used unique scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to control how electrons moved on the surface of a bismuth-based material (Bi2Te2Se).
X-ray microscopy at BESSY II: Nanoparticles can change cells
Nanoparticles easily enter into cells. New insights about how they are distributed and what they do there are shown for the first time by high-resolution 3D microscopy images from BESSY...
Discovery brings nanoscale thermal switches needed for next-gen computing
Researchers working on an Army project developed nanoscale thermal switches that are key to thermal management of nanoscale devices, refrigeration, data storage, thermal computing and heat management of buildings.
New quasiparticle unveiled in room temperature semiconductors
Physicists from Switzerland and Germany have unveiled fingerprints of the long-sought particle known as the Mahan exciton in the room temperature optical response of the popular methylammonium lead halide perovskites.
X-ray microscopy at BESSY II: Nanoparticles can change cells
Nanoparticles easily enter into cells. New insights about how they are distributed and what they do there are shown for the first time by high-resolution 3D microscopy images from BESSY...
Samsung’s 100x zooming smartphone camera requires a fancy lens and impossibly steady hands
Samsung uses clever tech to cram a big zoom lens into its skinny Galaxy S20 phone. (Samsung/)Yesterday, Samsung threw a big party on the west coast to debut its new smartphones. The...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw joins Marvel's 'Loki' series
Gugu Mbatha-Raw has singed on to star in Marvel's upcoming Dinsey+ series "Loki," which will feature Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as the god of mischief.
Atom or noise? New method helps cryo-EM researchers tell the difference
Cryogenic electron microscopy can in principle make out individual atoms in a molecule, but distinguishing the crisp from the blurry parts of an image can be a challenge. A new...
Dancing Matter: New form of movement of cyclic macromolecules discovered
Physicists show unique polymer behavior using computer simulationsEmploying a computer simulation, physicists Maximilian Liebetreu and Christos Likos have shown a unique dynamic behavior of cyclic polymers. Their motion can be...
Moving Precision Communication, Metrology, Quantum Applications from Lab to Chip
Photonic integration has focused on communications applications traditionally fabricated on silicon chips, because these are less expensive and more easily manufactured, and researchers are exploring promising new waveguide platforms that...
A New Class of Materials Shows Strange Electron Properties
A method to observe a new class of topological materials, called Weyl semimetals, has been developed by researchers at Penn State, MIT, Tohoku University, Japan and the Indonesian Institute of...
No Strain, No Gain! Breakthrough in 2D Material that Produces Single Photons
Recent research has shown that 2D materials may have potential as light sources that emit light as single photons.
DUNE collaboration finalizes the blueprint for the ultimate neutrino detector
The publication of the Technical Design Report is a major milestone for the construction of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, an international mega-science project hosted by Fermilab. It lays out...
NSF CAREER Award research aims to transform metal casting for the 21st century
Guha Manogharan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, is embarking on a new research project that has the potential to transform the fundamentals of casting science by studying...
Antiferromagnetic bimeron shows chaotic behaviors
Magnetic bimeron is a topological spin texture with particle-like characteristics, which can exist in chiral magnets with in-plane magnetic anisotropy. The magnetic bimeron with topological charge of one can be...
Researchers develop smaller, lighter radiation shielding
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for shielding electronics in military and space exploration technology from ionizing radiation. The new approach is more cost effective...
Bubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
Bubbly buildup can hinder many industrial processes, but a new method can reduce or even eliminate it. In many industrial processes, such as in bioreactors that produce fuels or pharmaceuticals,...
Researchers Develop Smaller, Lighter Radiation Shielding
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for shielding electronics in military and space exploration technology from ionizing radiation. The new approach is more cost effective...
Small altitude changes could cut the climate impact of aircraft
Contrails — the white, fluffy streaks in the sky that form behind planes — can harm the environment. Now, scientists report in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology that small flight path adjustments...
Something from nothing: Using waste heat to power electronics
-Collecting energy from environmental waste heat such as that lost from the human body is an attractive prospect to power small electronics sustainably. A thermocell is a type of energy-harvesting...
Time crystals and topological superconductors merge
"Powering a topological superconductor using a time crystal gives you more than the sum of its parts," says Jason Alicea, a researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the...
Artificial atoms create stable qubits for quantum computing
Quantum computing researchers have made improved qubits by exploiting concepts from high school chemistry.
Gold's wobbly nucleus: What the short-lived Au187 isotope teaches us about fundamental science research
As Earth rotates along its axis, it wobbles a little bit. This wobbling comes, in part, from how mass is distributed across the planet. Nuclear physics researchers have now observed...
Electric solid propellant: Can it take the heat?
Electric solid propellants are being explored as a safer option for pyrotechnics, mining, and in-space propulsion because they only ignite with an electric current. But because all of these applications...
Moving precision communication, metrology, quantum applications from lab to chip
The field of photonic integration—the area of photonics in which waveguides and devices are fabricated as an integrated system onto a flat wafer—is relatively young compared to electronics. Photonic integration...
Bubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
In many industrial processes, such as in bioreactors that produce fuels or pharmaceuticals, foam can get in the way. Frothy bubbles can take up a lot of space, limiting the...