Untangling the Physics of High-Temperature Superconductors
When certain materials are cooled to a certain temperature, their electric resistance decreases and they become superconductors. In this state, an electric charge can travel…
Physics
Using Laser Light to Explore Quantum Electron Highways
Researchers used circularly polarized laser light to probe the phase transition where a topological insulator (TI) loses its quantum properties and becomes an ordinary insulator.…
NASA Remixes Black Hole Sound Effects, And It’s Freaky As Hell
People online have been captivated and, to be honest, frightened by an audio sample that NASA just posted. Exactly what did NASA share? Oh, there…
Future Photovoltaic Building Blocks
Using photovoltaic technology to directly harvest energy from sunlight has become an essential component of future global energy production. Although silicon-based inorganic materials continue to…
Free Electrons and Photons are combined in a New Quantum Technology
A collaboration of Swiss and German researchers demonstrated for the first time the controlled generation of electron-photon pair states using integrated photonic circuits on a…
Researchers Improve the Sensitivity and Speed of Raman Microscopy
Researchers created a label-free, non-invasive Raman spectroscopy method that can acquire microscopic images of biological samples and identify a wide range of biomolecules with unprecedented…
Considering the Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing on Microearthquakes
The majority of earthquakes happen along plate boundary zones, where one tectonic plate collides with another. Because the large amount of relative motion between the…
Scientists Use the First One-Dimensional Helium Model System to Try to Shrink Microchips
The secret to shrinking microchips has been discovered by physicists at Indiana University and the University of Tennessee, and it involves helium. Microchips are used…
Research Team Speeds Up Imaging Methods for Recording Structures of Small Molecules
Pinshane Huang’s research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is advancing imaging techniques to visualize small molecule structures clearly a task that was…
Increase in Consecutive Hurricanes is Predicted along the Gulf Coast
According to new model projections, Louisiana and Florida could be twice as likely by the end of the century to experience two tropical storms that…
The Effects of Temperature on Life from Quantum to Classical Scales are Predicted by a New Model
Temperature is a crucial factor in every biological function. It holds true at all scales, from molecules to ecosystems, and in all environments, regardless of…
Scientists Study and Understand the Exotic State of Matter Using Quantum Simulation Tools
Scientists have shown that simulations employing quantum computing can make it possible to observe a unique state of matter that has been removed from its…
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