Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter

In a paper published in the March 29 issue of the journal Nature, the scientists describe the emergence of “spontaneous coherence,” “spin textures” and “phase…

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Fermions Unveiled: Understanding Particle Collective Motion

Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to…

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Stars and Planets Escape Milky Way’s Gravitational Pull

When stars and their orbiting plants wander too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, their encounter with the black hole's…

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UC San Diego Physicists Discover Patterns in New Matter State

In a paper published in the March 29 issue of the journal Nature, the scientists describe the emergence of “spontaneous coherence,” “spin textures” and “phase…

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Ultrafast Laser Pulses Reveal Superconducting Mechanism Insights

An international team that includes University of British Columbia physicists has used ultra-fast laser pulses to identify the microscopic interactions that…

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Max Planck and Princeton Unite for Fusion Research Innovation

Shirley M. Tilghman, the President of Princeton University, and Peter Gruss, President of the Max Planck Society, signed the agreement for the establishment of…

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UCSB Physicists Create Multi-Frequency Light with Laser Fusion

By aiming high- and low-frequency laser beams at a semiconductor, the researchers caused electrons to be ripped from their cores, accelerated, and then smashed…

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Photonics: Integrated laser on silicon is looking good

Active optical fibers with silicon photonic chips can carry a lot more information for data interconnect than copper cables. Silicon photonics can also be the…

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New Milky Way Image Unveils Details of a Billion Stars

Scientists created the colour picture by combining infrared light images from telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres. Large structures of the…

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Neutrons Reveal New Density Waves in Fermion Liquids

Scientists working at the Institut Laue-Langevin, one of the world's leading centres for neutron science, have carried out the first investigation of…

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Photoacoustics Technique Detects Minimal Cancer Cells Effectively

But one of the major limitations of these technologies is their inability to detect the presence of only a few cancer cells. Now, a research collaboration…

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Game Theory Sheds Light on Cancer Cell Dynamics

In the context of cancer, cooperator cells obey the general rules of communal survival, while cheater cells do not. The ultimate goal of this research was to…

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Billions of Rocky Planets Found in Milky Way’s Habitable Zones

A recent announcement (eso1204 – http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1204/), showing that planets are ubiquitous in our galaxy used a different method that was…

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New Cellular Automation Model Reveals Tumor-Host Interactions

To better understand the role complex tumor-host interactions play in tumor growth, Princeton University researchers developed a cellular automation model for…

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Writing graphene circuitry with ion 'pens'

The team has developed a promising new technique for creating graphene patterns on top of silicon carbide (SiC). SiC comprises both silicon and carbon, but at…

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Quantum Tunneling Boosts Energy Efficiency in Transistors

Transistors are the building blocks of the electronic devices that power the digital world, and much of the growth in computing power over the past 40 years…

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