The experimental setup for measuring specific heat includes a suspended Si membrane (the 'nano trampoline') a thin copper meander used as a heater, and a thin niobium nitride film acting as a thermometer. The two dimensional superconductors are prepared...
Coreless optical fibre: If a photonic crystal fibre is twisted, it does not require a core with a different refractive index to trap light at its centre. Credit: Science 2016/MPI for the Science of Light
Researchers at the Max Planck...
'Caged' non-fluorescent carbon dot enters the cancer cell, loses its caging and lights up. Credit: University of Illinois
Tiny carbon dots have, for the first time, been applied to intracellular imaging and tracking of drug delivery involving various optical and...
An artist's rendering of mechanical metamaterials. Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering
Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in the Netherlands have invented the first mechanical metamaterials that easily transfer motion effortlessly in...
Scientists at their sorting machine for Atoms (from left): Dr. Andrea Alberti, Carsten Robens, Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede, Dr. Wolfgang Alt and Stefan Brakhane.Credit: Copyright Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn
Physicists at the University of Bonn have cleared a further hurdle on...
Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally how a unique form of magnetism arises in an odd class of materials called Mott insulators. The findings are a step toward a better understanding the quantum states of these materials, which...
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
EPFL scientists have been able to measure the ultrashort time delay in electron photoemission without using a clock. The discovery has important implications for fundamental research and cutting-edge technology.
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When light shines on...
Niels Bohr and Paul Ehrenfest (with his son) at Leiden train station (Holland) in 1926. / Credit: Courtesy of the Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen
Bohr's atomic model was utterly revolutionary when it was presented in 1913 but, although it is...
Superconductivity, where electrical currents course unhindered through a material, is one of modern physics' most intriguing scientific discoveries. It has many practical uses. Governments, industries, and health care and science centers all make use of superconductivity in applications extending...
Physicists from MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere have presented a strong demonstration of quantum entanglement even when vulnerability to the freedom-of-choice loophole is significantly restricted. Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT
Quantum entanglement may appear to be closer to science...
For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have built and trained machine learning algorithms to predict defect behavior in certain intermetallic compounds with high accuracy. This method will accelerate research of new advanced...
