Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Single Nuclear Spins in Biomolecules: New Proof

In «Nature Nanotechnology», the researchers describe a novel experimental setup with which the tiny magnetic fields of the nuclear spins of single biomolecules…

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Harnessing Noise: A New Source of Sustainable Electricity

The smaller and more powerful that computer chips are the more heat they produce. This causes financial problems, because cooling costs money.

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Control Robot Swarms with Light and a Single Finger

A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination, constantly communicating…

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Magic Wavelengths: Rydberg Atoms in Quantum Information Processing

Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processing quantum information.

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High-Performance 3D Microbattery for On-Chip Integration

“This 3D microbattery has exceptional performance and scalability, and we think it will be of importance for many applications,” explained Paul Braun, a…

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New Chip Architecture Sets Stage for Quantum Computing Advances

Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest…

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Astronomers Measure Record Distance to Ancient Galaxy

The team discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy more than 13 billion years in the past and determined its exact distance from Earth using the combined…

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Satellite Explosion Increases Space Debris Collision Risks

On 3 February 2015, the DMSP F13 satellite exploded in orbit producing over an estimated 100 pieces of space debris that were detected using radar. In…

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Advancing Atomic Friction: Penn and UC Merced’s New Breakthrough

By speeding up a real atomic force microscope and slowing down a simulation of one, the team has conducted the first atomic-scale experiments on friction at…

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New Evidence of Water’s Journey to Earth From Asteroid Debris

Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth, new research strongly suggests.

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U of T Astrophysicists Confirm Image of Forming Planets

The team, led by Daniel Tamayo from the Centre for Planetary Science at U of T Scarborough and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, found…

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Explore the Microcosmos: Advances in Laser Light Technology

With the aid of extremely short and highly intense pulses of laser light, scientists have made great strides in their efforts to observe and control particle…

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Random Raman Laser: A Breakthrough Light Source for Microscopy

In modern microscope imaging techniques, lasers are used as light sources because they can deliver fast pulsed and extremely high-intensity radiation to a…

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New Insights: Volcano Loki on Jupiter’s Moon Io Observed

Io, the innermost of the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo in January 1610, is only slightly bigger than our own Moon but is the most geologically…

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New Matter-Antimatter Plasma Breakthrough at Queen’s University

Now, an experimental group from the Queen's University of Belfast in strong collaboration with the Quantum Dynamics Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute…

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Students Discover Widest Orbit Pulsar in Groundbreaking Study

A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation's…

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