News Categories
Latest News
A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight? - The Conversation
Comet MAPS has the potential to be one of the ‘Great Comets’ of this century.
Imaging the sub-moiré potential using an atomic single electron transistor - Nature
An atomic single electron transistor, which utilizes a single atomic defect in a van der Waals material as an ultrasensitive, high-resolution potential sensor, is used to image the electrostatic potential within a moiré unit cell.
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests - Phys.org
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new research.
Electron-phonon 'surfing' could help stabilize quantum hardware, nanowire tests suggest - Phys.org
That low-frequency fuzz that can bedevil cellphone calls has to do with how electrons move through and interact in materials at the smallest scale. The electronic flicker noise is often caused by interruptions in the flow of electrons by various scattering pr…
Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing' - Phys.org
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key feature of virtual particles that exist only fleetingly in…
When continents try, and fail, to break apart - Phys.org
Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and runs smack in the middle of the United States at the Great Lakes. The rift failed to completely rupture, and had it succeeded it would ha…