Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Develop “Time Machine” for Materials Science

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Freie Universität Berlin, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) hope to create a machine…

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Mapping the energetic landscape of solar cells

A new spectroscopic method now makes it possible to measure and visualise the energetic landscape inside solar cells based on organic materials. It was…

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Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

Observing real galaxies in space can only provide snapshots in time, so researchers who want to study how galaxies evolve over billions of years have to revert…

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Schrödinger's Cat with 20 Qubits

In 1935, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger put forward the thought experiment with the quantum cat, in which the cat is enclosed in a box together with a…

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Ultracold Quantum Particles Challenge Classical Symmetry

Many phenomena of the natural world evidence symmetries in their dynamic evolution which help researchers to better understand a system’s inner mechanism. In…

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Unique Quantum State of Matter Discovered in New Study

Most states of matter are characterized by the concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking, e.g., the periodic arrangement of atoms in a solid breaks the…

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Video of a phenomenon: Standing waves that won’t stand still

A wave consists of antinodes and nodes. If you imagine this on a rope, the antinodes are the areas which swing up and down, whereas nodes are the points in…

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Advancing Laser and Sensor Tech with Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals

A group of researchers led by Professor Myakzyum Salakhov has been working on the problem of optical states in plasmonic-photonic crystals (PPCs). The group…

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Measuring Star Collision Temperatures: 800 Billion Degrees Celsius

The HADES detector system on the GSI and FAIR campus in Darmstadt, as tall as a house, provides researchers with exciting insights into the events of the…

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Lasers Illuminate Molecular Interactions in Our Atmosphere

Invisible to the human eye, molecular interactions between gases and liquids underpin much of our lives, including the absorption of oxygen molecules into our…

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New Insights into Electron Dynamics in Transition Metals

The researchers from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), the MPSD (Germany), the Center for Computational Sciences of University of Tsukuba (Japan) and the Center for…

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Turning Water to Ice: New Quantum Materials Study Insights

In a study that will appear August 2 in the journal Science Advances, the team discovered that it could nudge these quantum materials to undergo transitions…

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Hubble uncovers a 'heavy metal' exoplanet shaped like a football

Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal magnesium and iron gas streaming from the strange world outside our solar system known as WASP-121b.

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Newly Confirmed TESS Planet Reveals Promising Discovery

The new worlds orbit a star named GJ 357, an M-type dwarf about one-third the Sun's mass and size and about 40% cooler that our star. The system is located 31…

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Quantum Light Sources Transform Optical Circuits in Nanoworld

Previous circuits on chips rely on electrons as the information carriers. In the future, photons which transmit information at the speed of light will be able…

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NASA's TESS mission scores 'hat trick' with 3 new worlds

TESS Object of Interest (TOI) 270 is a faint, cool star more commonly identified by its catalog name: UCAC4 191-004642. The M-type dwarf star is about 40%…

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