Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has revealed previously unrecognized…
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The Science Tokamak devices use strong magnetic fields to confine and shape the plasmaPlasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, along with…
Polyacrylonitrile nanofiber mesh before (left), during (middle), and after (right) capturing water aerosols. The mesh becomes coarser as some nanofibers stick together after the captured…
Schematic of a superconducting circuit [thin black lines] on a silicon chip [yellow base], being imaged using terahertz scanning near-field microscopy [red beam focused into…
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy allows observing the motion of atoms at their natural time scales in the range of femtoseconds, the millionth of a billionth of…
A key challenge for scientists striving to produce on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is preventing what are called runaway…
University of Chicago and German physicists propose new realm of ‘unnuclear physics.’ Even though neutrons love to partner with protons to make the nucleus of…
Illustration of ghost polaritons propagating away from a point source over a calcite surface. Credit: Weiliang Ma/HUST An international team has reported in Nature the…
A time integrated photo taken during a diffraction experiment at Omega. The work at Omega provides researches a better understanding on the properties of tantalum.…
This ain’t your grandma’s fridge magnet. An exotic form of magnetism has been discovered and linked to an equally exotic type of electrons, according to…
A collection of atom pairs inside an optical cavity formed by a pair of mirrors facing each other. The light trapped between the mirrors turns…
Multiparticle scattering in plasmonic systems. Credit: LSU LSU Quantum researchers rearrange photon distribution to create different light sources. For decades, scholars have believed that the…
Ultrafast electron microscope in Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Ultrafast electron microscope opens up new avenues for the development of sensors…
Complementarity relation of wave-particle duality is analyzed quantitatively with entangled photons as path detectors. The twenty-first century has undoubtedly been the era of quantum science.…
The researchers made use of the exceptional facilities of Micronova Nanofabrication Cleanroom. Credit: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University New study published in Nature Communications is the first…
Graphic showing how a time lens can distinguish between two photons arriving at a detector close together. Credit: Optica Researchers at CU Boulder have designed…
This Exotic Particle Had an Out-of-Body Experience – These Surprised Scientists Took a Picture of It
Artist’s illustration of ghost particles moving through a quantum spin liquid. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab An unexpected finding by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC…
The quantum motion of a nanoparticle can be extended beyond the size of the particle using the new technique developed by. physicists in Austria. Credit:…
Researchers have made the first direct observation of atomic motion in liquid water molecules that have been excited with laser light. Their results reveal effects…
Layout of the spectrometer, which will provide high-resolution measurements of a challenging feature of high energy density matter produced by National Ignition Facility experiments. Credit:…