Scientists remain perplexed by the activity, with some 40 papers so far giving wildly different answers. A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech…
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During the explosion of an oxygen molecule: the X-ray laser XFEL knocks electrons out of the two atoms of the oxygen molecule and initiates its…
High-resolution picture of the surface: The oxygen adsorbates are clearly visible (orange). Credit: TU Wien Oxygen is highly reactive. It accumulates on many surfaces and…
Black nitrogen is formed when nitrogen is placed in a diamond stamp cell between opposite diamonds and pressed together under extremely high pressures. Credit: Christian…
A view of the underground ALICE detector used in the study of the antideuteron Credit: CERN The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the…
It’s hard to make out at first, but with practice, researchers can easily see molecules in motion. A team including researchers from the Department of…
Confirming the existence of quark cores inside neutron stars has been one of the most important goals of neutron star physics for the last 40…
Image showing spiraling magnetic field fluctuations at the edge of the NSTX tokamak. Credit: Physics of Plasmas. Composition by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications Blobs can…
NIST physicist James Chin-wen Chou adjusts one of the laser beams used to manipulate an atom and a molecule in experiments that could help build…
A triangular piece of graphene is predicted to be magnetic. Credit: CIC nanoGUNE Graphene is a diamagnetic material, this is, unable of becoming magnetic. However,…
An ultrashort x-ray laser pulse (in violet) removes an inner-shell electron from the iodine atom in ethyl iodide. The experiment times the propagation of the…
Schematic illustration of the two topological pathways in the H + HD to H2 + D reaction: direct abstraction reaction (counter-clockwise) path and the roaming…
Artistic illustration of a cloud of atoms with pairs of particles entangled between each other, represented by the yellow-blue lines. Credit: © ICFO Quantum entanglement…
Astronaut Christina Koch assists with a hardware upgrade for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station in January 2020. Credit: NASA-International Space Station…
An international team has proposed a novel method that allows to widely extend this range of working frequencies of phonon polaritons in van der Waals…
Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing. Once unimaginable, transistors consisting only of several-atom clusters or even single atoms…
This diagram shows researchers how electrical energy exists in a sample of Fe3Ga. Credit: © 2020 Sakai et al A thin, iron-based generator uses waste…
Ultracold atomic lab at Swinburne University of Technology. Credit: FLEET Sound waves reveal the unique properties of an ultracold quantum gas, a model system for…
Creating and controlling on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is a key goal of scientists around the world. Production of…
The T-shaped microchannel device consists of three reservoirs with a T-junction linking them. Credit: OIST If you see people walking down a street and coming…