The importance of good neighbors in catalysis
Credit: David Albinsson/Chalmers University of Technology Are you affected by your neighbours? So are nanoparticles in catalysts. New research from ...
Tag: Atomic/Molecular/Particle Physics
Rotation of a molecule as an “internal clock”
Measuring ultrafast reactionsCredit: MPI for Nuclear Physics Using a new method, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear ...
Devil in the defect detail of quantum emissions unravelled
Study helps unlock chemical structure in defects that emit single photonsCredit: Trong Toan Tran Systems which can emit a stream ...
A new spin on atoms gives scientists a closer look at quantum weirdness
Credit: Rachel Davidowitz When atoms get extremely close, they develop intriguing interactions that could be harnessed to create new generations ...
A world record in detecting extremely low levels of gas impurities
Credit: Teemu Tomberg Photoacoustic spectroscopy applied to background-free analyses was used to measure unprecedentedly small trace gas concentrations. Teemu Tomberg ...
Order in the disorder:
density fluctuations in amorphous silicon discoveredCredit: Eike Gericke/HZB Silicon does not have to be crystalline, but can also be produced ...
Samara Polytech chemists synthesized new compounds
The synthesized substances have great preparative propertiesCredit: @SamaraPolytech Scientists of the Department of Organic Chemistry of Samara Polytech have developed ...
Direct observation of a single electron’s butterfly-shaped distribution in titanium oxide
A valence electron in titanium oxide has been imaged at a resolution of 0.2 Angstroms using synchrotron X-ray diffraction and ...
Neutrons chart atomic map of COVID-19’s viral replication mechanism
Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy To better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves and how it can be ...
Aerosol microdroplets inefficient carriers of COVID-19 virus
Modeling shows SARS-CoV2 isn't spread very well by the small droplets that linger longestCredit: University of Amsterdam WASHINGTON, October 27, ...
A major milestone for an underground dark matter search experiment
LUX-ZEPLIN crews overcome COVID-19 obstacles to reach major milestone en route to startupCredit: Matt Kapust/Sanford Lab Crews working on the ...
UT Arlington team collaborates with Princeton group on plasma flows
DOE grant to fund UTA-Princeton collaboration on laser diagnostics in plasma flowsCredit: UT Arlington University of Texas at Arlington doctoral ...
Timekeeping theory combines quantum clocks and Einstein’s relativity
Research reveals new time dilation phenomenonCredit: Petra Korlevic HANOVER, N.H. - October 23, 2020 - A phenomenon of quantum mechanics ...
Hidden states of the COVID-19 spike protein
Computational and experimental research by joint UC Berkeley-ITU team seeks unknown vulnerabilities of coronavirusCredit: Ahmet Yildiz, University of California, Berkeleky; ...
The new heavy isotope mendelevium-244 and a puzzling short-lived fission activity
Credit: Alexander Yakushev, GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung Gaining a better understanding of the limiting factors for the existence of stable, ...
COVID-19 cough clouds in closed spaces
How COVID-19 cough clouds travel in the presence and absence of face masksCredit: Amit Agrawal and Rajneesh Bhardwaj WASHINGTON, October ...
HKU physicist joins international effort to unveil the behavior of “strange metals”
Credit: The University of Hong Kong The Landau's theory of Fermi liquid (FL) (Note 1), established in the first half ...
Old methods prove true for studying proteins
Credit: © 2020 ?ukasz Jaremko and Vladlena Kharchenko A fresh new look at an old technique in protein biochemistry has ...
Creating perfect edges in 2D-materials
Credit: Alexander Ericson/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers ...
Zeptoseconds: new world record in short time measurement
Physicists from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin track the propagation of light in a moleculeCredit: Sven Grundmann, Goethe University Frankfurt FRANKFURT. ...
