Physics and Astronomy
This area deals with the fundamental laws and building blocks of nature and how they interact, the properties and the behavior of matter, and research into space and time and their structures.
innovations-report provides in-depth reports and articles on subjects such as astrophysics, laser technologies, nuclear, quantum, particle and solid-state physics, nanotechnologies, planetary research and findings (Mars, Venus) and developments related to the Hubble Telescope.
Schrödinger cats snatch many-particle quantum states
Quantum mechanics describes the complete information of any given system. Even though nanotechnology has developed tremendously during the last decades, one…
Ultra high sensitivity magnetic field sensors: The attraction of magnonic crystals
Here, Mitsuteru Inoue and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology demonstrate that magnonic crystals—artificial magnetic crystal structures for…
Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes
“It's kind of a chicken or egg problem: Which came first, the supermassive black hole or the massive galaxy? This study shows that even low-mass galaxies have…
Iowa State astronomer: ‘Beware of the wildlife, even in apparently quiet galaxies’
Curtis Struck, an Iowa State professor of physics and astronomy, uses a News & Views commentary in the Sept. 15 issue of Nature to add context and color to a…
Opportunity on verge of new discovery
Shortly after Labor Day 2011, the Mars rover Opportunity was poised on the rim of the 22,000 meter-wide Endeavour Crater, preparing to sample a novel rock…
Shake, rattle and … power up? A new MEMS device generates energy from small vibrations
While uses for wireless sensors are seemingly endless, there is one limiting factor to the technology — power. Even though improvements have brought their…