Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
In 1907, an Indian govt accountant challenged Newton’s ideas. Years later, he changed physics forever and won the Nobel Prize
There’s a particular kind of Indian story that never gets old: a government job by day, a scientific…
Magnetic field helps switch electronic states in quantum material
In the quantum realm, getting electrons to march to the same beat is famously difficult. But forcing them…
Versatile electronic phases enabled by intertwined multiple frustrations in an antiferromagnetic two-dimensional semimetal
We first identify magnetically driven charge orders from STM measurements performed across the AF transition at TN ≈ 1.5 K under…
Phonon focusing at room temperature
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Scientists Broke a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat
There are certain laws of physics that heat must follow. Take Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, for example,…
Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could transform particle physics – Physics World
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What Is Quantum Computing? | The Motley Fool Canada
Investors are understandably excited about the emerging field of quantum computing because it could be one of the…
Gas vapors trigger reversible phase, color change in advanced fluids
Researchers have developed a reversible, vapor-controlled system capable of toggling the physical and optical traits of advanced fluids…
New superconducting magnets reach full power for HiLumi LHC upgrade
CERN has just upgraded the world’s largest particle accelerator after successfully powering a new generation of superconducting magnets…
Imaging of nanoscale polar textures in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3
Cochran, W. Crystal stability and the theory of ferroelectricity. Adv. Phys. 9, 387–423 (1960). Article ADS CAS Google…
Quantum Gravity May Be Far Less Quantum Than Physicists Expected
Physicists have long assumed that uniting quantum mechanics with gravity would require spacetime itself to behave quantum mechanically.…