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Earthquake Lab Experiments Produce Aftershock-Like Behavior

Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and so too are the usually less-severe aftershocks that often follow a major seismic event.

Physicist Identifies How Electron Crystals Melt

The mysterious changes in phases of matter – from solid to liquid and back again – have fascinated Eun-Ah Kim since she was in lower elementary school in South Korea.

UC San Diego Researchers Show Molecules Change Their Behaviors Under a Polariton Leader

In recent years, manipulating chemistry using hybrid light-matter states called polaritons has generated much research as it combines the speed and efficiency of light with the reactivity and strong interactions of matter

Scientists Closer To Solving A Superconducting Puzzle With Applications In Medicine, Transport And Power Transmission

Researchers studying the magnetic behaviour of a cuprate superconductor may have explained some of the unusual properties of their conduction electrons.

Significant Gaps And Inequalities In The Provision Of Specialist Child Weight Management Services In England, Study Finds

Over three quarters of acute NHS trusts in England (77%) do not have a child weight management service, despite being responsible for providing specialist services for the most severely obese,

UCLA-Led Research Could Lead To More Durable Solar Cells

Using enhanced halide perovskite in place of silicon could produce less expensive devices that stand up better to light, heat

Rice Lab’s Catalyst Could Be Key For Hydrogen Economy

Inexpensive catalyst uses energy from light to turn ammonia into hydrogen fuel

University of Chicago Scientists Discover Material That Can Be Made Like a Plastic but Conducts Like Metal

‘Like conductive Play-Doh’: Breakthrough could point way to new class of materials for electronics, devices

Insects Affect Electric Fields in the Atmosphere, Researchers Find

The electric charge of insects can cause changes in the electricity of the atmosphere which are comparable with weather processes, researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Reading have found.

This Discovery Made ITER Possible

Forty years ago, physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics found a new plasma state that could be particularly suitable for energy production: the H-mode.

Researchers Devise Tunable Conducting Edge

Technology reported in UC Riverside-led study has nanoelectronic applications

Shining Light on a Fluid Completely Changes Its Dielectric Permittivity

Simply illuminating a fluid can cause its interaction with an electric field to greatly vary

Seeing Electron Movement at Fastest Speed Ever Could Help Unlock Next-Level Quantum Computing

New technique could enable processing speeds a million to a billion times faster than today's computers and spur progress in many-body physics

Bristol Researchers Make Important Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

Researchers from the University of Bristol, quantum start-up, Phasecraft and Google Quantum AI have revealed properties of electronic systems that could be used for the development of more efficient batteries and solar cells.

Calculations Reveal Three Helium Nuclei Lurking Inside Carbon Nuclei

Calculations provide a glimpse inside carbon nuclei, revealing the presence of three clusters resembling helium nuclei

Terahertz Waves Hit the Bull’s Eye at an Angle

Researchers explore how terahertz waves, which are finding use in an expanding range of practical applications, interact with lenses with bull’s-eye patterns

Far-Ultraviolet LED Designed to Kill Bacteria and Viruses Efficiently Without Harming Humans

A powerful LED can efficiently disinfect surfaces, while remaining safe for humans

Toward Manufacturing Semitransparent Solar Cells the Size of Windows

A peel-off patterning technique could enable more fragile organic semiconductors to be manufactured into semitransparent solar panels at scale

U-M researchers untangle the physics of high-temperature superconductors

When some materials are cooled to a certain temperature, they lose electric resistance, becoming superconductors.

Visualizing Nanoscale Structures in Real Time

Open-source software enables researchers to see materials in 3D while they're still on the electron microscope