Physicists have found a way to ‘hear’ dark matter
Credit: Illustration: Alexander Millar/Stockholm University Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas ...
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Creating a single phonon in ambient conditions
Credit: C. Galland/EPFL We call a crystal lattice. The structure of this lattice determines most mechanical and thermal properties of ...
Lyncean Technologies awarded 49M to provide world’s most advanced gamma-ray source
Credit: Photo by Adrian Sokolov Lyncean Technologies, a pioneer in compact accelerator-based light sources for use in science and industry, ...
Pressure may be key to fighting climate change with thermoelectric generators
New way to use compression techniques to improves thermoelectric performance, bringing researchers closer to practical applications that could help fight ...
Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science
Kwiat group achieves most efficient single-photon production everCredit: Siv Schwink/University of Illinois Department of Physics Over the last two decades, ...
Inventing the world’s strongest silver
Team creates metal that breaks decades-old theoretical limit, promising new class of super-strong and conducting materialsCredit: Joshua Brown A team ...
Beyond Einstein: Mystery surrounding photon momentum solved
Physicists at Goethe University measure miniscule effect with new super COLTRIMS apparatus / Publication in Nature PhysicsCredit: Alexander Hartung FRANKFURT. ...
A metronome for quantum particles
A new measurement protocol, developed at TU Wien (Vienna), makes it possible to measure the quantum phase of electrons - ...
Borophene on silver grows freely into an atomic ‘skin’
Rice scientists lead effort to improve manufacture of valuable 2D materialCredit: Zhuhua Zhang/Rice University/Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics HOUSTON ...
Physicists found weak spots in ceramic/graphene composites
Physicists found out the structures in nanomaterials made of ceramic and graphene plates, in which cracks appear most frequentlyCredit: Peter ...
Machine learning at the quantum lab
Credit: Department of Physics, University of Basel For several years, the electron spin of individual electrons in a quantum dot ...
Light work for superconductors
Laser light compels iron compound to conduct power without resistanceCredit: © 2019 Suzuki et al. For the first time researchers ...
Christian Smorra receives ERC starting grant for antimatter research
Funding for the development of a trap for the transport of antiprotons from CERN to Mainz; researchers expect to greatly ...
Researchers can now place single ions into solids
New technique enables implantation of individual ions into crystals with an accuracy of 35 nanometersCredit: Ill./©: QUANTUM, Institute of Physics, ...
Illinois researchers create first three-photon color-entangled W state
Credit: University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have constructed a quantum-mechanical ...
The first in Russia Nature conference: ‘Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics’
The AAPP 2019 conference brought together outstanding researchers in the field of plasma physicsCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University ...
Capturing extreme close-ups of cellular gene expression
Single-molecule approach to RNA transcription brings new details to lightCredit: Mengyu Wang, Jing Zhang, Heng Xu, and Ido Golding Scientists ...
NTU Singapore scientists develop technique to observe radiation damage over femtoseconds
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a technique to observe how radiation damages ...
New hunt for dark matter
Physicists theorize a novel way to explore the nature of dark matter with lasersCredit: © 2019 University of Tokyo Institute ...
KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half
Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the ...