Its abundance in our solar system–despite its rarity on Earth–makes metallic hydrogen an intriguing focus for researchers at the University of Rochester's…
As described in a new paper in the journal Fire Technology, the NIST blue-light imaging method can be a useful tool for obtaining visual data from large test…
Auroras flare up when energetic particles plunge into a planet's atmosphere, bombarding gases and making them glow. While electrons generally cause this…
Metallic glasses — alloys lacking the crystalline structure normally found in metals — are an exciting research target for tantalizing applications,…
When an insulating ferrimagnet is heated, the heat is first deposited in the atomic lattice which causes the atoms to move randomly around their cold…
Theoretical physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have just released the most precise…
Dr. LI Jiafang, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently formed an international team to apply kirigami techniques to…
On September 22, 2017 the IceCube experiment at Amundsen Scott station in Antarctica detected an ultra-high energy neutrino coming from outer space and was…
In fact, one of the most elusive phenomena in physics is the excitation of an atom's nucleus by absorption of an electron. The process, known as “nuclear…
To rule out other origins with certainty, the team led by neutrino physicist Elisa Resconi from the Technical University of Munich and multi-wavelength…
Whirlpools are an everyday experience in a bath tub: When the water is drained a circular vortex is formed. Typically, such whirls are rather stable. Similar…
Now a University of Rochester research team has devised a much simpler way to measure beams of light– even powerful, superfast pulsed laser beams that require…
The emerging field of spintronics leverages electron spin and magnetization. This could enhance the storage capacity of computer hard drives and potentially…
The record achieved by the W7-X, the world's largest and most advanced stellarator, was the highest “triple product” that a stellarator has ever created. The…
Science Fiction writers have a passion for lightsabers. But this idea will probably remain a dream forever, because light consists of photons – in physics they…
A frequently used reaction in organic chemistry is nucleophilic substitution. It plays, for example, an important role in in the synthesis of new chemical…
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