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New research integrates borophene and graphene into 2-D heterostructures
Nanomaterials could provide the basis of many emerging technologies, including extremely tiny, flexible, and transparent electronics.
While many nanomaterials exhibit promising electronic properties, scientists and engineers...
Liquid metals the secret ingredients to clean up environment
Forget the laboratory, substances that can solve environmental problems by capturing carbon dioxide, decontaminating water and cleaning up pollutants can be easily created in...
Radiation detector with the lowest noise in the world boosts quantum work
Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have built a super-sensitive bolometer, a type of thermal radiation detector. The new...
New compiler makes quantum computers two times faster
A new paper from researchers at the University of Chicago introduces a technique for compiling highly optimized quantum instructions that can be executed on...
Violent flaring revealed at the heart of a black hole system
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing...
An ultrafast glimpse of the photochemistry of the atmosphere
Our lives are governed by submicroscopic processes in the nanocosmos. Indeed many natural phenomena begin with a minuscule shift in the states of atoms...
Unlocking a 140-year-old secret in physics
Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of today's digital, electronic age, providing us a multitude of devices that benefit our modern life, including computer,...
Honeybees are math stars
Start thinking about numbers and they can become large very quickly. The diameter of the universe is about 8.8×1023 km and the largest known number—googolplex,...
Researchers discover material that could someday power quantum computer
Quantum computers with the ability to perform complex calculations, encrypt data more securely and more quickly predict the spread of viruses, may be within...
CO2 emissions cause lost labor productivity, research shows
The planet's warming climate has led to countless changes that are affecting all of us. Droughts, hurricanes, rising sea levels and forest fires—all are...
The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor
Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the predictions of cosmology.
For example,...
