Physics

A Scientist Studying Crystal Structures has Developed a New Mathematical Formula that may Solve a Decades-Old Problem in Understanding Space-Time

A Scientist Studying Crystal Structures has Developed a New Mathematical Formula that may Solve a Decades-Old Problem in Understanding Space-Time

A Penn State crystal structure researcher has devised a new mathematical formula that might help answer a decades-old puzzle about space-time, the fabric of the…
Mysterious Radioactive Cubes Found around the US are Probably Nazi Experiments

Mysterious Radioactive Cubes Found around the US are Probably Nazi Experiments

Do you know how in Captain America: The First Avenger, a Nazi-like organization tries to harness the power of a mysterious glowing cube to create…
Physicists Probe the Nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Physicists Probe the Nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

An analysis conducted by Dark Energy Survey physicists yields more precise estimates of the average density of matter as well as its proclivity to clump…
A Faster Way to Enable Organic Solar Cells to Convert Sunlight into Electrical Power

A Faster Way to Enable Organic Solar Cells to Convert Sunlight into Electrical Power

Organic solar cells are less expensive to manufacture and more flexible than crystalline silicon counterparts, but they do not provide the same level of efficiency…
Modulated Quantum Metasurfaces can Control all Characteristics of Photonic Qubits, According to a Group of Researchers

Modulated Quantum Metasurfaces can Control all Characteristics of Photonic Qubits, According to a Group of Researchers

Modulated quantum metasurfaces, according to a team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, can control all characteristics of photonic qubits, a development that might…
A New Integrated Photonics Platform has been Developed

A New Integrated Photonics Platform has been Developed

Individual defects can be entangled using photon-photon interactions, providing a path toward large-scale quantum photonic networks. Optically-addressable solid-state spin defects are promising candidates for storing…
Laser Beams are Visible in Vacuum by Physicists

Laser Beams are Visible in Vacuum by Physicists

Laser beams are invisible in the vacuum unless they are shot directly into your eye. However, physicists are now making laser beams visible in a…
Identifying the Root of a Fatal Condition in Combustion Rocket Engines

Identifying the Root of a Fatal Condition in Combustion Rocket Engines

Combustors are critical components of gas engines and the chambers where the combustion that powers the engine takes place. However, combustors frequently fail as a…
New Techniques used by Cross-pollining Physicists for Harvest of Energy from Fusion

New Techniques used by Cross-pollining Physicists for Harvest of Energy from Fusion

Scientists have transferred a technique from one field of plasma physics to another to enable the more efficient design of powerful magnets for tokamaks, which…
Difference between Atom and Molecule

Difference between Atom and Molecule

Atom is defined as the smallest unit of an element that may or may not exists independently. Molecule implies the set of atoms held together…
A New Method for Imaging Vibrations and Atomic Movements in Catalysts

A New Method for Imaging Vibrations and Atomic Movements in Catalysts

A novel method for imaging atom vibrations and movements in catalysts has been developed by researchers. The new method identifies and locates individual atoms in…
Free Electron Lasers Generate Short-wavelength Radiation

Free Electron Lasers Generate Short-wavelength Radiation

Accelerator-based light sources, such as storage rings and free-electron lasers, generate intense radiation over a broad spectral range for fundamental research in physics, chemistry, materials…
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