Newly Discovered ‘Hybrid’ Phase of Matter Blurs the Line Between Solid and Liquid
High school science misses a lot of the science researchers actually work with. For example, you learn that…
“Amazing”: Scientists Reveal Clearest-Ever Image of the Universe’s Birth—But One Cosmic Mystery Remains
Imagine being able to peek at the universe mere moments after its birth—not through wild guesswork or theory,…
1,600 meters underground, scientists are trying to unlock the hidden side of the universe
It is an odd feeling to think that while most of us go about our day above ground,…
Scientists Generate Power At Night By Passively Beaming Heat into Outer Space. It’s “Like Solar Cells in Reverse”
UC Davis engineering professor Jeremy Munday has developed an experimental engine that can generate mechanical power from the…
Entanglement of a nuclear spin qubit register in silicon photonics
Awschalom, D. D., Hanson, R., Wrachtrup, J. & Zhou, B. B. Quantum technologies with optically interfaced solid-state spins.…
This 7-hour cosmic explosion is the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen: Could it be from an elusive class of black hole?
Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and…
Scientists May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter
The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for ages. One of the…
Supermassive Black Hole Blasts Out Ultrafast Wind At Record-Breaking 60,000 Kilometers Per Second
Galaxy NGC 3783 is gorgeous, with well-defined spiral arms that make it almost the platonic ideal of spiral…
One of Kazakhstan’s top nuclear physicists also leads his nation in retractions – Retraction Watch
The head of a nuclear physics institute in Kazakhstan now has 21 retractions to his name — most…
On-chip phased interdigital metamaterials enable versatile manipulation of surface acoustic waves, microfluids, and micro/nano-objects
On-chip phased interdigital metamaterials (PIMs) for manipulating surface acoustic waves (SAWs), fluids, and micro/nano-objects The PIM is inspired…
Release of IMAS infrastructure and physics models as open source
In addition to the infrastructure software, a wide range of physics models used extensively in the fusion modelling…
Hybrid matter that behaves like both liquid and solid discovered
Researchers have unveiled a startling discovery: not all atoms in a liquid are jostling around. Some, it turns…