Particle Physics

An international research team led by the University of Cologne has succeeded for the first time in connecting several atomically precise nanoribbons made of graphene, a modification of carbon, to form complex structures. The scientists…

Known as "two-dimensional electrolytes", these smart materials could potentially be used in many things from drug delivery to energy storageCredit: National University of Singapore Intelligent materials, the latest revolution in…

Sandia scientists publish studies of how spray droplets can spread diseaseCredit: Video by Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Two groups of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have published papers on the…

Credit: Lancaster University A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluids has been developed by Lancaster physicists. Andrew Guthrie, Sergey Kafanov, Theo Noble, Yuri Pashkin, George Pickett and Viktor Tsepelin, in…

New ultra-stable, high-power cavity solitons revealed. This new type of hybrid and universal pulse, discovered by researchers at the OPERA-Photonics laboratory of the Université libre de Bruxelles, could lead to major adva Unlike the…

Credit: Ali Elshaair The promise of a quantum internet depends on the complexities of harnessing light to transmit quantum information over fiber optic networks. A potential step forward was reported today by researchers in Sweden…

Using lasers to create the displays of science fiction, inspired by Star Wars and Star TrekCredit: BYU They may be tiny weapons, but Brigham Young University's holography research group has figured out how to create lightsabers --…

Using the smallest "construction set" in the world, a research team from the universities of Marburg, Giessen and Paderborn is designing new materials for computer chips, light-emitting diodes and solar cells.Credit: Elisa Monte,…

Credit: Penn State The National Academy of Sciences elected three members of Penn State's faculty to its membership, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University…

Scientists are analyzing the development and bursting of infectious aerosols in tissue cultivationsCredit: Dr. Patricia Pfeiffer, Dr. Fabian Reuter/ Uni Magdeburg Scientists from the Departments of Physics, Biomedical Sciences and…

Credit: Source: IFJ PAN When heavy ions, accelerated to the speed of light, collide with each other in the depths of European or American accelerators, quark-gluon plasma is formed for fractions of a second, or even its…

Credit: Image credit: Rezlind Bushati The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies. Realizing this in a chip-scale architecture is important…

Chinese scientists have made direct observations in face-centered cubic VCoNi (medium)-entropy alloys (MEA) and for the first time proposed a convincing identification of subnanoscale chemical short-range order (CSRO). This achievement…

Discovery could open new fields in quantum chemistry and technologyCredit: Chin Lab Researchers have big ideas for the potential of quantum technology, from unhackable networks to earthquake sensors. But all these things depend on a…

Nuclear physicists make new, high-precision measurement of the layer of neutrons that encompass the lead nucleus, revealing new information about neutron starsCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab NEWPORT NEWS - Nuclear physicists have made a…

Credit: Control room photo courtesy of KSTAR; collage and right-hand photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. The process designed to harvest on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars can sometimes be…

Quantum systems consisting of several particles can be used to measure magnetic or electric fields more precisely. A young physicist at the University of Basel has now proposed a new scheme for such measurements that uses a particular…

The findings allow manipulation of materials for the first time by stacking films at a twist angle, allowing a new way to control light emitting from materialsCredit: Nano Letters Cover, Volume 21, Issue 7 - Recent discoveries focused…

A revolutionary technique gives scientists an unparalleled close-up view inside fleeting particles called excitonsCredit: OIST In a world-first, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate…

Resonant-tunneling diodes are used in high-frequency oscillators, wave emitters and detectors, logic gates, photodetectors, and optoelectronic circuits. The study was a collaboration between Brazilian and German researchers.Credit: Edson…