Physics News
April 24, 2025
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Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers developed a machine-learning model that can predict the structures of transition states of chemical reactions in less than a second, with high accuracy. Their model could make it easier for chemists to design reactions that could ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — A research group has manipulated light through its interaction with a metal surface so that it exhibits entirely new ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a light-induced DNA detection method that enables rapid, PCR-free genetic analysis. Their technique offers ultra-sensitive mutation detection in just five minutes, reducing costs and simplifying testing. The method has ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Asymmetric interactions between molecules may serve as a stabilizing factor for biological systems. A new model reveals this regulatory role of non-reciprocity. The scientists aim to understand the physical principles based on which particles and ...
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Apr. 21, 2025 — Researchers observe over a dozen never-before-seen quantum states in a unique quantum ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — An international team of physicists has made a significant observation of the BKT phase transition in a 2D dipolar gas of ultracold atoms. This ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — An international team has succeeded in producing new, efficient thermoelectric materials that could compete with state-of-the-art materials, offering greater stability and lower ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — A study has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in a metallic compound, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Scientists have created the first neutron 'Airy beam,' which has unusual capabilities that ordinary neutron beams do not. The achievement could enhance neutron-based techniques for investigating the ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Physicists have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but difficult-to-achieve wavelength range, packing the performance of larger photonic devices ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these ...
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Apr. 14, 2025 — Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term neural describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — New data establish an upper limit of 0.45 eV/c2 (equivalent to 8 x 10-37 kilograms) for the neutrino mass. KATRIN measures neutrino mass in the laboratory using a model-independent ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Researchers have developed a pioneering, sustainable method for producing cadmium-based quantum dots (QDs) in water using a biocompatible chalcogen source. This fully aqueous, continuous flow process ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Physicists have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — A team of researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a century ago known as a superradiant phase transition, which occurs when two groups ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding question whether antiferromagnetism, while commonly found in regular crystals, is ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Researchers unlock the mystery of bound states in the continuum using compact mechanical ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Using artificial intelligence shortens the time to identify complex quantum phases in materials from months to minutes, finds a study. The breakthrough could significantly speed up research into ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health. ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Cancer diagnoses traditionally require invasive or labor-intensive procedures such as tissue biopsies. Now, research reveals a method that uses pulsed infrared light to identify molecular profiles in ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute complex quantum mechanical simulations through ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — A scientist gives an answer to a long-standing question in theoretical glass physics: what does it mean to be an order parameter for an inherently out-of-equilibrium system? Starting from first ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — A chemical reaction that's vital to a range of commercial and industrial goods may soon be initiated more effectively and less ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Quantum states can only be prepared and observed under highly controlled conditions. A research team has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrodinger cat states in a superconducting microwave ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student recently made the surprising discovery of what they call a 'shape-recovering liquid,' which defies some long-held expectations ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — Physicists have made a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — Researchers have found a way to dramatically reducing energy loss and boosting efficiency perovskite solar cells by incorporating rubidium using lattice strain -- a slight deformation in the atomic ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution. This new device can pinpoint ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum ...
Monday, April 14, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Astroparticle Physics: Neutrinos Weigh Less Than 0.45 Electronvolts
- Reshaping Quantum Dots Production Through Continuous Flow and Sustainable Technologies
- Maximal Entanglement Sheds New Light on Particle Creation
- Scientists Observe Exotic Quantum Phase Once Thought Impossible
- A New Era in Materials Science: Antiferromagnetic Quasicrystals Unveiled
- Breaking a Century-Old Physics Barrier: Perfect Wave Trapping With Simple Cylinders
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Chatbot Opens Computational Chemistry to Nonexperts
- Rare Crystal Shape Found to Increase the Strength of 3D-Printed Metal
- Making the Physics of Glass More Transparent
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Researchers Improve Chemical Reaction That Underpins Products from Foods to Fuels
- Hot Schrödinger Cat States Created
- Exception to Laws of Thermodynamics
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves
- Strain 'trick' Improves Perovskite Solar Cells' Efficiency
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera
- Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks
- Study Tracks Chromium Chemistry in Irradiated Molten Salts
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations
- Metasurfaces: Bilayer Device Can Control Many Forms of Polarized Light
- Diagnosing a Dud May Lead to a Better Battery
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Physics of Irregular Objects on Inclined Planes Probed
- Researchers Find a Way to Shield Quantum Information from 'noise'
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Unlocking the Potential of the Heavy Atom Effect in Metal Clusters
- Cleverly Designed Carbon Nanohoop Enables Controlled Release of Iron
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- A Multimodal Light Manipulator
- New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles
- Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics
- Gas Injection Setup in New Fusion System Is Guided by Public-Private Research
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Researchers Capture First Laser-Driven, High-Resolution CT Scans of Dense Objects
- Muonic Atoms Unlock New Possibilities in Nuclear Physics
- Producing Nuclear Fusion Fuel Is Banned in the US for Being Too Toxic, but These Researchers Found an Alternative
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Quantum Heat Dynamics Toggled by Magnetic Fields
- New Study Challenges Assumptions About Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries
- Breakthrough in Materials Science: AI Reveals Secrets of Dendritic Growth in Thin Films
- Good Vibrations: Scientists Discover a Groundbreaking Method for Exciting Phonon-Polaritons
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Nanomaterials Used to Measure Nuclear Reaction on Radioactive Nuclei Produced in Neutron Star Collisions
- Quantum Light Source for Eco-Friendly Production of Biogas
- Eco-Friendly Method to Efficiently Convert Methane to Ethanol
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Dialing in the Temperature Needed for Precise Nuclear Timekeeping
- Scientists Tune in to Rhombohedral Graphene's Potential
- Direct Evidence Revealed for Rare Pulsing Pear-Shapes in Gadolinium Nuclei
- Twisting Atomically Thin Materials Could Advance Quantum Computers
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- How Chemistry and Force Etch Mysterious Spiral Patterns on Solid Surfaces
- Spinning, Twisted Light Could Power Next-Generation Electronics
- Reading Magnetic States Faster -- In Far Infrared
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- New Computer Code Could Lead to Simpler, Less Costly Stellarators for Fusion Power
- Exciting Moments on the Edge
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Technique to Manipulate Water Waves to Precisely Control Floating Objects
- Elementary-Particle Detectors, 3D Printed
- Scientists Discover New Heavy-Metal Molecule 'berkelocene'
- Untangling Quantum Entanglement With New Calculation Formulas
Monday, March 10, 2025
- The Two Faces of Liquid Water
- Evidence of a New Phenomenon: Quantum Tornadoes in Momentum Space
- X-Ray Snapshot: How Light Bends an Active Substance
- Unlocking the Secrets of Phase Transitions in Quantum Hardware
- 'Nanodot' Control Could Fine-Tune Light for Sharper Displays, Quantum Computing
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein's Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground
- Quantum Dot Discovery for LEDs Brings Brighter, More Eco-Friendly Displays
- Single-Qubit Sensing Puts New Spin on Quantum Materials Discovery
- The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors
- Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second
- For Better Quantum Sensing, Go With the Flow
- Controlling Conformational Changes in Protein Aromatic Side Chains
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Cold Atoms on a Chip
- Scientists Unravel the Spiraling Secrets of Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Electronics
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Quantum Properties in Atom-Thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells
- Scientists Use AI to Better Understand Nanoparticles
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- New Ocelot Chip Makes Strides in Quantum Computing
- Quantum Interference in Molecule-Surface Collisions
- Unraveling How a 'magnetic Twist' Induces One-Way Electric Flow
- Turning Waste Organic Compound Into Useful Pharmaceuticals and Energy Using a Technique Inspired by Photosynthesis
- Unraveling the Origin of Extremely Bright Quantum Emitters
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine
- Time Interfaces: The Gateway to Four-Dimensional Quantum Optics
- Some Fuel Lodges in the Inner Walls of Fusion Vessels: Researchers Now Have a Better Idea of How Much
- Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network
- Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Toward High Electro-Optic Performance in III-V Semiconductors
- Mesoporous Silicon: Semiconductor With New Talents
- From Defect to High-Tech Material
- A Completely New Type of Microscopy Based on Quantum Sensors
- Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy
- Materials Incorporated Into Quantum Qubit Platform
- Mimicking Shark Skin to Create Clean Cutting Boards
Friday, February 21, 2025
- Highly Uniform Nanocrystals Synthesized by Liquid Crystalline Antisolvent
- Self-Imaging of Structured Light in New Dimensions
- Illuminating the Proton's Inner Workings
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Topological Quantum Processor Marks Breakthrough in Computing
- Breakthrough Study Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About the Shape of Atomic Nuclei