Former MIT postdoc Jonathan Pelliciari, now an assistant physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, holds onto part of the resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) instrument at…
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In 1911, Ernest Rutherford discovered that at the core of every atom is a nucleus. Atomic nuclei consist of electrically positive protons and electrically neutral…
Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth…
Conceptual image of the method of using spectrally varying polarization states for high-speed spectroscopic measurements. Credit: Frederic Bouchard / National Research Council of Canada Researchers…
Foam structure for various temperatures and pressures. The bulkiest foams have the largest air pockets and are good for flotation devices. Credit: Heon Park Researchers…
A Wigner crystal of electrons (red) inside a semiconductor material (blue/grey). Credit: ETH Zurich Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded in observing a crystal that…
MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to a near standstill, using LIGO’s precise measurements of its 40-kilogram mirrors. Shown here are LIGO optics technicians…
Researchers designed a cold atom source that uses four mirrors arranged like a pyramid and placed in a way that allows them to slide past…
A schematic of a quantum phase transition from an electron liquid to a bilayer Wigner crystal. Each ball represents a single electron. Credit: Ella Maru…
A team of physicists led by the University of Minnesota has discovered that the unique superconducting metal Niobium diselenide (NbSe2) is more resilient when used…
The new method reconstructs the quantum state of the quantum simulator on a classical computer from a few measurements. It also lets the user compare…
The excitation of the gas atoms makes the intersecting infrared laser beams (in red) in the resonator visible to the human. Credit: © Thorsten Naeser…
Research led by Kent and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has resulted in the discovery of a new rare topological superconductor, LaPt3P. This discovery may be of…
Experiments in the lab at TU Wien. Credit: TU Wien How reproducible are measurements in solid-state physics? New measurements show: An allegedly sensational effect does…
Illustration of the absorption of an individual electron captured on film. Credit: Javier Marmolejo Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have observed the absorption of…
An artist’s depiction with cutaway section of the two giant donuts of radiation, called the Van Allen Belts, that surround Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight…
When a proton collides with a proton, the gluon emitted by one of the valence quarks can interact with a virtual quark from the the…
Glass is one of the most common subjects we see every day, but the detailed structure of this non-metallic and non-liquid material has always been…
Schematic of the optical microcavity with 2D semiconductor. The nonlinear optical response arises from the larger Bohr radii Rydberg excitons allowing to push the limit…
Combustion chamber during combustion oscillations in a model rocket engine. Credit: Hiroshi Gotoda Power source clusters near rocket engine fuel injectors could create combustion oscillations.…