Soon, air pollution could be measured on every street corner
Credit: Insplorion/Johan Bodell Air pollution is responsible for 550,000 premature deaths a year in Europe - and 7 million worldwide, ...
Tag: Atomic/Molecular/Particle Physics
A microscopic topographic map of cellular function
A decade of research leads MU scientists to a better understanding of how materials move out of cellsCredit: University of ...
Physics at the edge
UCSB condensed matter physicists take a step closer to building a graphene-based topological insulator In 2005, condensed matter physicists Charles ...
An innovative electron microscope overturning common knowledge of 88 years history
Direct atom-resolved imaging of magnetic materialsCredit: JST Under the JST-SENTAN program (Development of System and Technology for Advanced Measurement and ...
Plot twist: Straightening single-molecule conductors improves their performance
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - A team at Osaka University has created single-molecule nanowires, complete with an insulation layer, ...
Tiny light box opens new doors into the nanoworld
Credit: Denis Baranov/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a completely new way ...
A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark matter, and a possible way ...
Settling the debate: Solving the electronic surface states of samarium hexaboride
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - A team led by Osaka University used angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy to probe the unusual ...
What if dark matter is lighter? Report calls for small experiments to broaden the hunt
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists are already pursuing new experiments to probe for low-mass dark matter particlesCredit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley ...
How acids behave in ultracold interstellar space
Solvated acids tend to release a proton; however, they display more complex behavior under space conditions Bochum-based researchers from the ...
Understanding the (ultra-small) structure of silicon nanocrystals
University of Alberta chemists discover new information about structure of silicon nanocrystalsCredit: Haoyang (Emmett) Yu New research provides insight into ...
Discovery sheds light on synthesis, processing of high-performance solar cells
Halide perovskite solar cells hold promise as the next generation of solar cell technologies, but while researchers have developed techniques ...
Jam-packed: A novel microscopic approach to amorphous solids
Tokyo, Japan - A team led by The University of Tokyo developed a new method for understanding the structure organization ...
3D microchannels promote self-assembly of ordered emulsions at low droplet concentrations
Credit: SUTD Self-assembly is the process by which simple building blocks interact and organize themselves into ordered structures. Nature abounds ...
UV light may illuminate improvements for next generation electronic devices
Credit: Golap Kalita, Ph.D., Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan By adding one more layer of atoms to already infinitesimal semiconductors, ...
Researchers develop superconducting quantum refrigerator
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Imagine a refrigerator so cold it could turn atoms into their quantum ...
Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrodinger’s cat (and finally save it)
Credit: Kat Stockton New Haven, Conn. - Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger's famous cat, ...
Physicists create stable, strongly magnetized plasma jet in laboratory
Credit: Elle Starkman When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a soupy amalgam ...
Breaking the symmetry in the quantum realm
Credit: images created by Guoyan Wang & Lei Chen For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a ...
Successful research on the propagation of waves
DFG approves further funding of the 'wave phenomena: analysis and numerics' and the transregional 'waves to weather' collaborative research centersCredit: ...
