Study shows optical fields can modify electrons in metal
Pittsburgh research coauthored by team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy reveals that optical fields have the ability to modify electronic properties of...
New spider species named after Greta
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg can add to her list of personal accolades, including TIME magazine's Person of the Year, a group of spiders...
Scientists close in on 12-billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe’s ‘dark age’
Today, stars fill the night sky. But when the universe was in its infancy, it contained no stars at all. And an international team...
Quantum effect observed in ‘large’ metal
In the world of materials science, sometimes main discoveries can be found in unexpected places. While working on the resistivity of a type of...
Newly observed phenomenon could lead to new quantum devices
An exotic physical phenomenon known as a Kohn anomaly has been found for the first time in an unexpected type of material by researchers...
Quantum cryptography keys for secure communication distributed 1,000 kilometers farther than previous attempts
The exchange of a secret key for encrypting and decrypting messages over a distance of 1,120 kilometers is reported in Nature this week. This achievement is...
Sugar coating locks and loads coronavirus for infection
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. But the human immune system does just that when it comes to finding and...
Black hole model reveals star collapse without bright explosion
A team of scientists, including Chief Investigator Ilya Mandel from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Monash University, recently...
Nature provides roadmap to potential breakthroughs in solar energy technology
As policymakers increasingly turn toward science in addressing global climate change, one Michigan State University scientist is looking to nature to develop the next...
Quantum ‘fifth state of matter’ observed in space for first time
Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter in space for the first time, offering unprecedented insight that could help solve some of the...
Scientists apply ‘twistronics’ to light propagation and make a breakthrough discovery
A research team led by scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY (CUNY ASRC), in collaboration with National University...
