The STAR collaboration's exploration of the "nuclear phase diagram" shows signs of a sharp border--a first-order phase transition--between the hadrons that make up ordinary atomic nuclei and the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) of the early universe when the QGP is...
The researchers at Aalto University have made an array of nanoparticles combined with dye molecules to act as a tiny laser. The lasing occurs in a dark mode and the laser light leaks out from the edges of array....
Levitating a 3cm diameter expanded polysterine sphere with a DIY portable tractor beam. Credit: Asier Marzo
Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single-sided acoustic tractor beam—that is, the...
Simplified representation of the 2D magnetic phase transition. Credit: Institute for Basic Science
PARK Je-Geun, Associate Director at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems and collaborators have demonstrated the magnetic behavior of a special class of 2-D materials. This is...
The discrepancy between the cosmological parameters in the modern Universe and the Universe shortly after the Big Bang can be explained by the fact that the proportion of dark matter has decreased. The authors of the study could calculate...
MIT researchers describe a way to make atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates even more precise by eliminating a source of error endemic to earlier designs. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Atom interferometry is the most sensitive known technique for measuring...
The magnetic structure of a skyrmion is symmetrical around its core; arrows indicate the direction of spin. Credit: ill./©: Benjamin Krüger, JGU
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made another important...
Laser light generates and probes sound waves in the core of a fiber optic waveguide. Credit: Yale University
Yale scientists have shown how to enhance the lifetime of sound waves traveling through glass—the material at the heart of fiber optic...
Credit: Caltech
Caltech biologist Markus Meister is disputing recent research claiming to have solved what he describes as "the last true mystery of sensory biology"—the ability of animals to detect magnetic fields. This "magnetic sense" provides a navigational aid to...
Tetraneutron. Credit: Andrey Shirokov
A research team at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, using new interaction between neutrons, has theoretically justified the low-energy tertaneutron resonance that was recently obtained experimentally. This proves the very brief existence of a particle consisting...
Study co-authors Pawel Majewski and Kevin Yager are preparing nanoscale films of self-assembling materials. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
New technique leverages controlled interactions across surfaces to create self-assembled materials with unprecedented complexity
Building nanomaterials with features spanning just billionths of a...
