Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Get in synch — or be enslaved by it

Understanding conditions that cause oscillators — which are common electronic components that produce a repetitive electronic signal — to get in synch or…

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10-Minute Plasma Treatment Boosts Organic Memory Performance

While organic electronics are immediately attractive for their potential for extremely low cost and flexible substrates, many design aspects that are now taken…

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Mind-Reading Hair Brush: Innovations in fNIRS Technology

One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often be impaired because a…

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One-Way Martian Colonization Missions: A Call to Action

For the chance to watch the sun rise over Olympus Mons, or maybe take a stroll across the vast plains of the Vastitas Borealis, would you sign on for a one-way…

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New Insights on Nanocrystal Growth Boost Nanotechnology Potential

Nanoparticles are the foundation of nanotechnology and their performance depends on their structure, composition, and size. Researchers will now be able to…

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ORNL theorist part of team that discovers unexpected magnetism

The results, published in Nature Communications, have special significance for the design of future electronic devices for computations and telecommunications,…

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Graphene Breakthrough Enhances Bluetooth Headset Performance

Researchers at the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have built and successfully tested an amplifier made from graphene that could lead to more…

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New Sensor Detects Shoe Bombs With Advanced Chemical Analysis

SuslickTriacetone triperoxide (TATP) is a high-powered explosive that in recent years has been used in several bombing attempts. TATP is easy to prepare from…

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‘Quantum Hanky-Panky’ at Perimeter Institute Lecture

On Wednesday, November 3, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, Seth Lloyd, a principal investigator in the…

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Weighing Stars: Astrophysicist Kipping’s New Method Explained

New work by astrophysicist David Kipping says that in special cases, we can weigh a star directly. If the star has a planet, and that planet has a moon, and…

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NRL Scientists Explore Quantum Dot-Dopamine Interactions

According to NRL's Dr. Michael Stewart, a member of the research team “The nature of the QD-dopamine interaction has been the subject of more than 25 recent…

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New Ion Beam Source Powers Brookhaven Research Facilities

A new source of ions will soon be the starting point for the beams entering two major research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven…

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Correlated Tunneling: Insights Into Quantum Behavior

Quantum systems do often behave differently from what we would expect intuitively and from our daily experience.One example is provided by the so-called…

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New Optics Tech Reveals Hidden Planets in Stunning Detail

Using new optics technology developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, an international team of astronomers has obtained images of a planet…

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HPC Insights: Exploring Galaxy Formation and Black Holes

An Ohio State University astronomer is working to unlock some of the mysteries surrounding the formation of vast galaxies and the evolution of massive black…

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UCSB Physicists Control Quantum States in Diamond with Light

This is an important step toward using quantum physics to expand computing power and to communicate over long distances without the possibility of…

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