Scientists Finally Crack Why Ice Is Really Slippery—Upending a 200-Year-Old Physics Explanation
For nearly two centuries, students have been taught that ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts a…
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Scientists challenge 200-year-old theory on why ice is slippery | To read more from the study | Inshorts InshortsWhy…
Non-magnetic material shows ‘Anomalous Hall Effect’ for the first time
Japanese physicists have observed an elusive form of the “Hall effect” in a nonmagnetic material for the first…
‘We want more people to know about our priceless Albert Einstein blackboard’
The university is looking into ideas on how best to display the blackboard, including placing it in the…
‘We want more people to know about our priceless Albert Einstein blackboard’
Malia CartyBBC News, Nottingham BBC The blackboard used by Albert Einstein is the only one believed to be…
Scientists Watch an Atom’s Nucleus Flip in Real Time for the First Time
Artist’s impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
Graphene Electrons Violate Fundamental Law of Physics
Scientists have detected a “Dirac fluid” in graphene, where electrons flow like a nearly perfect liquid and defy…
These Strange Stars Could Reveal the True Nature of Dark Matter
A newly proposed type of stellar object, called a dark dwarf, may be hiding in the heart of…
Scientists discover needle-shaped quantum clusters
When most people think of gold, they picture jewelry or treasure. However, at the atomic scale, gold behaves…
Pressure induced superconductivity in hybrid Ruddlesden‒Popper La5Ni3O11 single crystals
Bednorz, J. G. & Müller, K. A. Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba–La–Cu–O system. Z. Phys. B:…
Friedel oscillations and chiral superconductivity in monolayer NbSe2
We consider the low-energy Hamiltonian for the metallic bands of monolayer NbSe2 $$\hat{H}={\sum} _{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }{\xi }_{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }{\hat{c}}_{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }^{{\dagger}…
Transient domain boundary drives ultrafast magnetisation reversal
Time-resolved magnetic soft-X-ray spectroscopy We investigate a typical nanometre-scale heterostructure consisting of an amorphous ferrimagnetic Gd25Co75 alloy with…