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.
Searching for Spin Liquids
The world economy is becoming ever more reliant on high tech electronics such as computers featuring fingernail-sized microprocessors crammed with billions of…
Bending light with better precision
A metamaterial is a structure engineered from a variety of substances that, when put together, yield optical properties that do not exist in nature. In this…
Strain and spin may enable ultra-low-energy computing
Their proposed design runs on so little energy that batteries are not even necessary; it could run merely by tapping the ambient energy from the environment.Rather than the traditional charge-based electronic switches that encode the basic 0s and 1s of computer lingo, spintronics harnesses the natural spin – either up or down – of electrons to store bits of data. Spin one way and you get a 0; switch the spin the other way – typically by applying a magnetic field or by a spin-polarized current pulse – and you get a 1. During switching, spintronics uses considerably less energy than charge-based electronics. …
Researcher Finds Largest Martian Channels Most Likely Formed by Volcanic Activity
But David Leverington, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University, said what we interpret as the largest ancient…
Hubble Offers a Dazzling View of the 'Necklace' Nebula
The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered planetary nebula, the glowing remains of an ordinary, Sun-like star. The nebula consists…
High-tech microscope measures electron oscillations
The new technology allows tracking extremely fast processes in miniature objects – with an unparalleled spatial and temporal resolution. “For the first time we…