Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Self-Propelled Droplets: A New Era for Programmable Micro-Carriers

“Using droplets as micro carriers in biomedicine, for example, is a goal that has been pursued already for some time”, says Ralf Seemann, Professor of…

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Flexible Fibers Enhance Endoscope Imaging Quality

Endoscopes allow doctors to see into a patient’s body like through a keyhole. Typically, the images are transmitted via a bundle of several hundreds of optical…

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New Laser Technology Mimics Hound’s Sense of Smell

Applications for the new device lie not just in environmental monitoring and detecting industrial contamination, but may eventually be used to diagnose disease…

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New Data-Mining Technique Unveils Mars’ Mineralogy Secrets

A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison and including Bob Hazen have revealed the mineralogy of Mars at an unprecedented scale, which will help…

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Quantum Info Transfer: Sound-Based Innovations Explained

Quantum physics is on the brink of a technological breakthrough: new types of sensors, secure data transmission methods and maybe even computers could be made…

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Designer Materials: Unlocking Quantum Computing Potential

Topological randomness may be the answer for lossless electronics and making the nuts and bolts of quantum computers. Complete randomness in the structures of…

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Higgs Boson Directly Coupled to Top Quark: New Findings

On 4 July 2012, two of the experiments at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) and CMS (Compact-Muon-Solenoid), reported…

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Rutgers Researchers Unveil Method for Energy-Efficient Electronics

A Rutgers-led team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power…

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Exploring Novel Insulators With Conducting Edges

Topology examines the properties of objects and solids that are protected against perturbations and deformations. Materials known so far include topological…

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Solving the Graphene Puzzle: Advances in Light Detection

Light detection and control lies at the heart of many modern device applications, such as smartphone cameras. Using graphene as a light-sensitive material for…

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New Alloy Innovations: NASA Explores Sintering in Space

“In space the rules of sintering change,” said Rand German, principal investigator for the investigation titled NASA Sample Cartridge Assembly-Gravitational…

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XENON1T Sets New Limits on Dark Matter Particle Size

Experimental results from the XENON1T dark matter detector limit the effective size of dark matter particles to 4.1X10-47 square centimeters–one-trillionth of…

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Discover How New Power Meter Enhances Real-Time Laser Monitoring

High-power lasers are now widely used in additive manufacturing and laser welding systems to precisely cut and weld metal, making all kinds of metal parts for…

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Simulating Black Holes: Insights from Exacomputer Innovations

The challenge in simulating black holes lies in the necessity of solving the complex Einstein system of equations. This can only be done numerically and…

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Brighter, Durable Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Unveiled

Now, researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Technische Universität Dresden have demonstrated the possibility of using ultrastable film…

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APEX Explores Einstein’s Black Hole Shadow Discovery

Astronomers are hunting for the ultimate proof of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which is to obtain a direct image of the shadow of a black hole….

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