Quantcast

Latest News

Rooftop Solar Cells Can Be a Boon for Water Conservation Too

Fossil-fueled electrical grid’s enormous water use is often overlooked

Rooftop Solar Cells Can Be a Boon for Water Conservation Too

Electricity-generating rooftop solar cells not only save on planet-warming carbon emissions, they also save a significant amount of water, say a pair of Duke University researchers who have done the math.

Physicists Confront the Neutron Lifetime Puzzle

To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can “live” outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of our left-handed universe.

Through the Quantum Looking Glass

A thin device triggers one of quantum mechanics’ strangest and most useful phenomena

Scientists See Spins in a 2D Magnet

Research shows that spinning quasiparticles, or magnons, light up when paired with a light-emitting quasiparticle, or exciton, with potential quantum information applications.

Physicists Demo Method for Designing Topological Metals

Design principle could guide search for metals with immutable quantum states

‘Naturally Insulating’ Material Emits Pulses of Superfluorescent Light at Room Temperature

Researchers looking to synthesize a brighter and more stable nanoparticle for optical applications found that their creation instead exhibited a more surprising property

Bound By Light

Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

Signs of Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions at RHIC

Suppression of a telltale sign of quark-gluon interactions presented as evidence of multiple scatterings and gluon recombination in dense walls of gluons

Researchers Demonstrate Error Correction in a Silicon Qubit System

Researchers from RIKEN in Japan have achieved a major step toward large-scale quantum computing by demonstrating error correction in a three-qubit silicon-based quantum computing system.

Curtin Researchers Make Battery-Free Breakthrough

New Curtin University-led research has found a more effective way to improve the output of autonomous power sources, such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), commonly used to power vital mining equipment in remote or underground locations where power points and batteries are not practical.

MIT Chemists Develop a Wireless Electronic Lateral Flow Assay Test for Biosensing

Design from the Swager Lab uses electronic polymers, rather than colored lines, to indicate a positive response, enabling quantitative monitoring of biomarkers.

Electron Powers a Weak but Significant Bond for Building Complex Structures

How do you bring together two molecules that positively repel each other?

Quantum Cryptography: Hacking Is Futile

An international team led by LMU physicist Harald Weinfurter has successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography for the first time. Encryption is more secure against hacking attempts.

Next Generation Atomic Clocks Are a Step Closer to Real World Applications

Quantum clocks are shrinking, thanks to new technologies developed at the University of Birmingham-led UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing.

Quan­tum Com­puter Works with More Than Zero and One

For decades computers have been synonymous with binary information – zeros and ones.

A New Concept for Low-Cost Batteries

Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources.

Surprise, Surprise: Subsurface Water on Mars Defies Expectations

Physics connects seismic data to properties of rocks and sediments

Living LEGOs

Mathematical modeling speeds up the process of programming bacterial systems to self-assemble into desired 2D shapes.