Even back in the 1990s, scientists were comparing materials processing with nanosecond, picosecond and femtosesecond pulses. The result was surprising:…
Have you ever wondered how you see the world? Vision is about photons of light, which are packets of energy, interacting with the atoms or molecules in what…
Machine learning is a powerful tool used for a variety of tasks in modern life, from fraud detection and sorting spam in Google, to making movie…
Scientists have long debated how deep canyons and extensive valley networks — like the kinds carved by running water over millions of years on Earth — could…
Around 75 years ago, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana hypothesized the existence of exotic particles that are their own antiparticles. Since then, interest in…
The research shows that weak magnetic fields — far weaker than those that normally interrupt superconductivity — can interact with defects in a material to…
Molecules move randomly, colliding with each other in continual motion. You can even smell this process at times; it's how perfume spreads across a room when…
A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the Astrobiology Center among others has…
“Our Quantum droplets are in the gas phase but they still drop like a rock,” explains experimental physicist Francesca Ferlaino when talking about the…
As we generate more and more data, we need storage systems, e.g. hard drives, with higher density and efficiency. But this also requires materials whose…
Conventional memories used in today’s computers only differentiate between the bit values 0 and 1. In quantum physics, however, arbitrary superpositions of…
In a new paper in the journal Nature Physics, researchers at Caltech have at last solved one piece of this enduring puzzle. They have confirmed that a…
Safely decommissioning the legacy of radioactively contaminated facilities from nuclear energy and weapons production is one of the greatest challenges of the…
Modern electronics and digital technologies rely on the control of electric current in semiconductor devices, from computers to smartphones and amplifiers. An…
A newly discovered giant valley on the planet Mercury makes the Grand Canyon look tiny by comparison. Located by scientists at the University of Maryland, the…
Instruments on board a space probe must be able to withstand large temperature variations, intense vibrations during the launch of the rocket or voltage…
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