Drying without dying: How resurrection plants survive without water
Aquaphotomics sheds light on how plants control their water structure to surviveCredit: Kobe University A small group of plants known ...
Tag: Molecular Physics
What causes that peak? Answering a long-standing question for covalent liquids
Credit: 2019 Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - Materials that have a disordered structure ...
Hybrid material may outperform graphene in several applications
A structure comprising a molybdenum disulfide monolayer on an azobenzene substrate could be used to build a highly compactable and ...
Hall effect becomes viscous in graphene
Researchers at the University of Manchester in the UK have discovered that electrons in graphene act like a very unique ...
Engineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
Optical effect could be harnessed for light displays, litmus tests, and makeup products Engineers at MIT and Penn State University ...
Directed evolution builds nanoparticles
Credit: Benjamin Lambert, EPFL The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists who developed the method that forever ...
Graphite offers up new quantum surprise
University of Manchester researchers have observed an unusual quantum Hall effect in the old three-dimensional material Researchers at The University ...
JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules
Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA JILA researchers have made a long-lived, record-cold gas of molecules that follow the wave patterns of quantum ...
‘Butterfly-shaped’ palladium subnano cluster built in 3-D
Credit: 2019 Yusuke Sunada, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - Miniaturization is the watchword of progress. ...
Physicists pinpoint a simple mechanism that makes bacteria resistant to antibiotics
Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Physicists at McMaster University have for the first time identified a simple mechanism used by ...
Winning Science's annual 'Dance Your Ph.D.' contest, physicist depicts electrons swinging on superconducting wires
Dance video shows 'unsociable' particles becoming 'joyful' pairs Scientific research can be a lonely pursuit. And for Pramodh Senarath Yapa, ...
The smallest skeletons in the marine world observed in 3D by synchrotron techniques
Credit: NASA Coccolithophores are microscopic marine algae that use carbon dioxide to grow and release carbon dioxide when they create ...
Lopez named to UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers
Teaching excellence at UTACredit: UTArlington Ramon Lopez, a professor of physics at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been ...
Periodic table still influencing today's research
Credit: Photo by MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table, and the ...