Bizarre Things: Matter & Energy
December 24, 2024
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Dec. 20, 2024 — Quantum teleportation could provide near-instant communication over long distances. But, inside Internet cables, photons needed for teleportation are lost within the millions of light particles required for classical communications. A new study ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Physicists have created a new and long-lasting magnetic state in a material, using only light. The results provide a new way to control and switch antiferromagnetic materials, which are of interest for their potential to advance information ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — A fragment of 'lost' music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago. Scholars have been investigating the origins of the musical score -- which contains only 55 ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size. The findings ...
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Dec. 16, 2024 — A research team has developed a highly efficient wearable energy harvester that can power electronic devices using only body ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — If the experience of watching a FIFA World Cup soccer final is intense, spare a thought for the players, who are competing at an ever increasing intensity, according to a new ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — A future where lightweight car parts can be made with a 3D printer is here, thanks to multi-material additive manufacturing ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — The holidays are in full swing and people are shopping, wrapping and packing to visit loved ones. Along with the extra fees for checked baggage and seat upgrades, some airlines are also considering ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Infertility affects an estimated 186 million people worldwide, with fallopian tube obstruction contributing to 11%-67% of female infertility cases. ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical method that ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — When analyzing artworks, understanding the visual clarity of compositions is crucial. Inspired by digital artists, researchers have created a metric to quantify clarity in digital images. As a ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases. Harnessing that prowess and immense storage ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for ...
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Dec. 12, 2024 — Theoretical physicists along with an experimental team have found evidence of a quantum spin liquid in a material known as pyrochlore cerium stannate. They achieved this by combining state-of-the-art ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — An interdisciplinary team has created tiny bubble-like microrobots that can deliver therapeutics right where they are needed and then be absorbed by the ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to the development of new magnetic memory devices with the potential to ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have observed a collection of particles, also known as a quasiparticle, that's massless when moving one direction but has mass in the other direction. The ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — Using microparticles consisting of extremely thin petals, medicines can be delivered via the bloodstream in a precisely targeted manner, for example to a tumour or blood clot. Ultrasound and other ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can watch and understand moving images with the subtlety of a human brain. Now, scientists have made this a reality by creating MovieNet: an ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Physicists have devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Photonic space-time crystals are materials that could increase the performance and efficiency of wireless communication or laser technologies. They feature a periodic arrangement of special materials ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, research ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel device that couples magnetic fields and kirigami design principles to remotely control the movement of a flexible dimpled surface, allowing it to manipulate objects ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — Researchers have built a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs, greatly expanding the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — A team of interdisciplinary scientists has developed flexible fibers with self-healing, light-emitting and magnetic properties. The Scalable Hydrogel-clad Ionotronic Nickel-core Electroluminescent ...
Dec. 5, 2024 — Physicists have outlined the next 10 years of global research into the behavior of neutrinos, particles so tiny that they pass through virtually everything by the trillions every second at nearly the ...
Dec. 5, 2024 — A research team has made exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period, 7,000 years ago. The well organic preservation of the remains of the Cave of Los Murcielagos ...
Dec. 4, 2024 — A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot's movement in the ...
Dec. 3, 2024 — The hydrogen atoms of [4Fe-4S] type ferredoxin, one of the electron carriers, have been visualized and both experiments and calculations have revealed the mechanisms that control the redox potential. ...
Dec. 3, 2024 — Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions -- could this shape the future of pharmaceutical ...
Dec. 2, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for self-assembling electronic devices. The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and paves the way for self-assembling more ...
Dec. 2, 2024 — A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels, and that we should start looking within rocks and old ...
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Minuscule Robots for Targeted Drug Delivery
- Researchers Discover New Third Class of Magnetism That Could Transform Digital Devices
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Particle That Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction Observed for First Time
- Delivering Medicines With Microscopic 'flowers'
Monday, December 9, 2024
- Scientists Create AI That 'watches' Videos by Mimicking the Brain
- Not So Simple Machines: Cracking the Code for Materials That Can Learn
- Space-Time Crystals, an Important Step Toward New Optical Materials
- Judging Knots Throws People for a Loop
- Battery-Like Computer Memory Keeps Working Above 1000°F
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Magnetically Controlled Kirigami Surfaces Move Objects: No Grasping Needed
- Bird-Inspired Drone Can Jump for Take-Off
- Researchers Innovate Scalable Robotic Fibers With Light-Emitting, Self-Healing and Magnetic Properties
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Particle Research Gets Closer to Answering Why We're Here
- Iberian Neolithic Societies Had a Deep Knowledge of Archery Techniques and Materials
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Uncovered a Mystery of 'electron Carrier' Existing in All Living Organisms: Discovery of a 'nano-Switch Mechanism' Controlled by a Single Hydrogen Atom
- Controlling Matter at the Atomic Level
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Researchers Demonstrate Self-Assembling Electronics
- Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth
- 'Spooky Action' At a Very Short Distance: Scientists Map out Quantum Entanglement in Protons
- Temporary Tattoo Printed Directly on the Scalp Offers Easy, Hair-Friendly Solution for Measuring Brainwaves
- Physics Experiment Proves Patterns in Chaos in Peculiar Quantum Realm
- Smallest Walking Robot Makes Microscale Measurements
- Innovative Robot Navigation Inspired by Brain Function Boosts Efficiency and Accuracy
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Monday, November 25, 2024
- To Design Better Water Filters, Engineers Look to Manta Rays
- Most Energetic Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons Ever Observed
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- The Parasaurolophus' Pipes: Modeling the Dinosaur's Crest to Study Its Sound
- Chemists Create World's Thinnest 'spaghetti'
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- Do Pipe Organs Create an Auto-Tune Effect?
- Researchers Develop Clinically Validated, Wearable Ultrasound Patch for Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Synchronized Movement Between Robots and Humans Builds Trust, Study Finds
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- New Theory Reveals the Shape of a Single Photon
- Sliding Seeds Can Provide Insight Into Devastating Landslides and Rock Avalanches
Monday, November 18, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- AI Headphones Create a 'sound Bubble,' Quieting All Sounds More Than a Few Feet Away
- Scientists Discover Laser Light Can Cast a Shadow
- Robotic Shorts Support People When Walking
- 'Cool' White Car Headlights More Likely to Dazzle Moths
- When Is a Hole Not a Hole? Researchers Investigate the Mystery of 'latent Pores'
- Sensitive Ceramics for Soft Robotics
- NeuroMechFly V2: Simulating How Fruit Flies See, Smell, and Navigate
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
- Anti-Fatberg Invention Could Help Unclog City Sewers
- Robot Identifies Plants by 'touching' Their Leaves
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Synthetic Cells Emulate Natural Cellular Communication
- Giving Robots Superhuman Vision Using Radio Signals
- Breakthrough in Photonic Time Crystals Could Change How We Use and Control Light
Monday, November 11, 2024
- Storm in a Laser Beam: Physicists Create 'light Hurricanes' That Could Transport Huge Amounts of Data
- Robot That Watched Surgery Videos Performs With Skill of Human Doctor, Researchers Report
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Robot Learns How to Clean a Washbasin
- Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes
- Off-the-Shelf Thermoelectric Generators Can Upgrade CO2 Into Chemicals: The Combination Could Help Us Colonize Mars
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Quantum Vortices Confirm Superfluidity in Supersolid
- AI-Driven Mobile Robots Team Up to Tackle Chemical Synthesis
- New Haptic Patch Transmits Complexity of Touch to the Skin
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
- New Methods for Whale Tracking and Rendezvous Using Autonomous Robots
- A Rudimentary Quantum Network Link Between Dutch Cities
- How Virtual Cows Could Help Us Improve Human-Robot Interactions
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Scientists Develop Grain-Sized Soft Robots Controlled by Magnetic Fields for Targeted Drug Delivery
- Successful Experiment Paves the Way for New Element
- Unnoticeable Electric Currents Could Reduce Skin Infections
- From Accessibility Upgrades to a Custom Cat-Food Bowl, This Mobile 3D Printer Can Autonomously Add Features to a Room
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- People Sympathize With Bullied AI Bots
- Quantum Research Breakthrough Uses Synthetic Dimensions to Efficiently Process Quantum Information
- Life-Saving Spongelike 'bandage' Rapidly Stops Hemorrhaging and Mitigates Risk of Infection
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Out-of-This-World Simulation Key to Collecting Moon Dust
- Researchers Develop Janus-Like Metasurface Technology That Acts According to the Direction of Light
- Are Nearby Planets Sending Radio Signals to Each Other?
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture With a Smartphone
- Researchers Develop System Cat's Eye-Inspired Vision for Autonomous Robotics
Friday, October 11, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- The New Fashion: Clothes That Help Combat Rising Temperatures
- Inspired by Spider-Man, a Lab Recreates Web-Slinging Technology
- Nature and Plastics Inspire Breakthrough in Soft Sustainable Materials
- A Matter of Taste: Electronic Tongue Reveals AI 'inner Thoughts'
- New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'think', Say Scientists
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Ice Cream-Inspired Physics: Team Uncovers a Quantum Mpemba Effect, With a Host of 'cool' Implications
- Holographic 3D Printing Has the Potential to Revolutionize Multiple Industries
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Stronger Together: Miniature Robots in Convoy for Endoscopic Surgery
- Squid-Inspired Fabric for Temperature-Controlled Clothing
Monday, September 30, 2024
Friday, September 27, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Mars' Missing Atmosphere Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight
- Shrinking AR Displays Into Eyeglasses to Expand Their Use