Length-scale dependence of the anomalous atomic motion in metallic glasses
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Breakthrough In Nanophotonics: Infrared Light Trapped In A Layer 1000 Times Thinner Than Human Hair
Warsaw: Researchers have created a nanoscale structure that traps infrared light in a layer just 40 nanometres thick–over…
Double-edged role of interactions in superconducting twisted bilayer graphene
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They Discovered Something Faster Than Light, But It Doesn’t Break Physics
It sounds paradoxical at first. Light, after all, is the gold standard of speed in the universe. But…
New Breakthrough in Solar Cell Efficiency Hits 130% Quantum Yield : ScienceAlert
Scientists are always pushing the boundaries of solar cell efficiency – how much of the available sunshine gets…
Metamaterials that learn to change shape
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“One of the Most Titanic Blasts in the Cosmos”: Gravitational Waves Support a “Forbidden Range” of Stellar Obliteration
Gravitational waves reveal an explosive “forbidden range” of stellar destruction so powerful that not even a black hole…
Scientists Just Upended a 300-Year-Old Law of Physics
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Scientists find quantum computers forget most of their work
Imagine setting up an elaborate chain of dominoes, where each piece must strike the next in perfect sequence…
New electronically tunable quantum detector speeds up search for dark matter
For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for evidence of dark matter, an invisible substance they believe…
Lodha Physics Institute will be ‘paradise’ for theoretical physicists
New Delhi: The Mumbai-based Lodha Foundation is all set to inaugurate the Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute or LTPI…
Quantum ground state of rotation reached in a world-first in Europe
A collaborative effort between researchers at multiple institutes in Europe achieved a global first by trapping a silica…