The findings, published in Materials Today, outline how a joint research team from the University of Birmingham, UK, Stockholm University, Sweden and Zhejiang…
Atoms and molecules can be made to emit light particles (photons). However, without external intervention this process is inefficient and undirected.
The startling similarity between the physical laws describing electric phenomena and those describing magnetic phenomena has been known since the 19th century….
“The previous flight of SuperTIGER lasted 55 days, setting a record for the longest flight of any heavy-lift scientific balloon,” said Robert Binns, the…
New scientific findings suggest neutrino detectors may play an important role in ensuring better monitoring and safer storage of radioactive material in…
Like a doctor recording vital signs, the team measured the levels of nine gases released from the icy nucleus into the comet's thin atmosphere, or coma….
New research using data collected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could well be a scaled-up…
A recent study provides new evidence that the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa may have plate tectonics similar to those on Earth. The presence of plate…
When a very massive star dies, its core contracts. In a supernova explosion, the star’s outer layers are expelled, leaving behind an ultra-compact neutron…
A fascinating property of topological insulators is that while remaining insulating in the bulk, they are very good conductors at the edge. At those edges,…
The image is crystal clear, and you feel as if you are really walking through the incredible worlds that your VR glasses are conjuring up around you. Until…
In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, in collaboration with High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EMFL), Netherlands; Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD-EMFL) and Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland show extremely large conductivity in a semimetal, WP2. The conductivity of ~ 3 x 108 W-1cm-1in WP2 at 2 K is comparable to highly conducting metals like potassium and copper of the similar purity. The authors identified two major reasons for diminished scattering…
The most basic of all physical interactions in nature is that between light and matter. This interaction takes place in attosecond times (i.e. billionths of a…
Nanoscale heat flow plays a crucial role in many modern electronic and optoelectronic applications, such as thermal management, photodetection, thermoelectrics…
The absorption of electromagnetic radiation — light, among other things — is one of the main effects of electromagnetism. This process takes place when…
An international team of researchers from Innsbruck, Harvard, Copenhagen and Waterloo put forward a new method to protect quantum information stored in trapped…
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