Ultrafast intra-atom motion tracked using synchrotron radiation
Credit: NINS/IMS Scientists in Japan have observed, and interfered with, the ultrafast motion of electron movement inside of a Xenon ...
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Catching electrons in action in an antiferromagnetic nanowire
Credit: Ranjit Pati/Michigan Tech The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its ...
Discovery of ‘knock-on chemistry’ opens new frontier in reaction dynamics
New experimental findings cast in doubt 90-year-old theoretical model of the transition state in chemical reactionsCredit: Illustration: Lydie Leung TORONTO, ...
New study provides detailed view of how hepatitis B virus establishes chronic infection
The research offers potential strategies for development of new treatmentsCredit: Image by Stephanie Maya, Princeton University Researchers at Princeton have ...
Uncovering exotic molecules of potential astrochemical interest
Credit: © Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Looking at the night sky, one's thoughts might be drawn ...
New IceCube detection proves 60-year-old theory
Credit: IceCube Collaboration On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino was hurtling through space at nearly ...
IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory
The South Pole neutrino detector saw a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in ...
Finding quvigints in a quantum treasure map
Credit: Markus Rambach Researchers have struck quantum gold--and created a new word--by enlisting machine learning to efficiently navigate a 20-dimensional ...
A liquid crystal walks into an optical resonator: new Skoltech research helps model future optoelect
Credit: Timur Sabirov/Skoltech Researchers at Skoltech and their colleagues proposed a photonic device from two optical resonators with liquid crystals ...
Combined technique using diamond probes for nanoscale imaging of magnetic vortex structure
Magnetometry exploiting color center defects in diamond probes and magneto-optic imaging found to complement each other; progress towards the creation ...
Samara Polytech chemists have predicted more than 200 new carbon allotropes
One of the predicted substances turned out to be harder than a diamondCredit: @SamaraPolytech Employees of the Samara Center for ...
Food security: Irradiation and essential oil vapors for cereal treatment
A combined treatment of irradiation and essential oil vapors could effectively eliminate insects, bacteria and mold in stored grainsCredit: Christian ...
New quantum theory heats up thermodynamic research
Credit: Beth Morris, University of Nottingham Maths PhD Researchers have developed a new quantum version of a 150-year-old thermodynamical thought ...
Metallic state of Ag nanoclusters in oxidative dispersion identified in situ
Credit: DICP Oxidative dispersion has been widely used in the regeneration of sintered metal catalysts as well as the fabrication ...
Performance of methane conversion solid catalyst is predicted by theoretical calculation
Accelerating search for various materials to achieve a carbon-free societyCredit: Atsushi Ishikawa Japanese researchers have developed a simulation method to ...
Conquering the timing jitters
Credit: (Image by Daniel Haynes and Jörg Harms/Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.) Breakthrough greatly enhances ...
Cockcroft Institute awarded more than £11 million to boost accelerator research
Credit: STFC The Cockcroft Institute (CI), a partnership between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde, and the Science ...
Ultra-fast electron measurement provides important findings for the solar industry
Processes in a model system for organic solar cells analyzed at the femtosecond scale for the first timeCredit: DESY / ...
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion powerCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 1, 2021) ...
Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions
Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on origin of heaviest elements in our solar systemCredit: Bill Saxton / NSF / AUI ...
