Aug. 25, 2017 — Scientists have achieved precise and fully reversible switching of the polarity of voltage produced by the thermoelectric effect across a gold junction with an atomic-scale contact. The control of ...
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Aug. 14, 2017 — Physicists have come up with a method that could significantly improve the quality of X-ray images in comparison to conventional methods. Incoherent diffractive imaging (IDI) could help to image ...
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Aug. 8, 2017 — For more than 20 years, researchers have been working on sources of terahertz radiation that can be etched onto microchips. In a new article, they now describe a novel design that boosts the power ...
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Aug. 4, 2017 — In general, solid state physicists are not able to separate the two processes, so they cannot answer the question, whether the magnetic order is indeed reduced, or whether it is just ...
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Aug. 3, 2017 — Scientists are one step closer to answering the question of why matter exists and illuminating the mysteries of the Big Bang and the birth of the ...
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Aug. 2, 2017 — Science and the IT industry have high hopes for quantum computing, but descriptions of possible applications tend to be vague. Researchers have now come up with a concrete example that demonstrates ...
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Aug. 2, 2017 — A new study that provides a new approach for the rational design of carbon quantum dots (CQD) modified catalysts with potential applications in energy and environmental areas. The study discusses the ...
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Aug. 1, 2017 — The peculiar characteristics demonstrated by 'quantum critical points' at absolute zero remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of ...
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Aug. 1, 2017 — Researchers have harnessed the weirdness of quantum entanglement to detect ultra-faint radio signals, explains a new ...
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July 31, 2017 — Scientists have produced the first known material capable of single-photon emission at room temperature and at telecommunications ...
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July 31, 2017 — Some of the world's tiniest crystals are known as 'artificial atoms' because they can organize themselves into structures that look like molecules, including 'superlattices' ...
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July 31, 2017 — Predicting the properties of subatomic particles before their experimental discovery has been a big challenge for ...
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July 28, 2017 — Advances in modern electronics has demanded the requisite hardware, transistors, to be smaller in each new iteration. Recent progress in nanotechnology has reduced the size of silicon transistors ...
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July 27, 2017 — A study by MIT researchers shows that collections of ultracold molecules can retain the information stored in them for hundreds of times longer than previously achieved in these materials. These ...
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July 27, 2017 — Researchers have come up with a method that allows measuring the strength of the coherence of superposition in any given quantum state, similar to the famous Schrödinger's cat, which described ...
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July 27, 2017 — Physicists have devised a new simple scheme to theoretically generate arbitrarily short and focused electromagnetic fields. This new tool could be used for precise sensing and in ...
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July 25, 2017 — While the charge and spin properties of electrons are widely utilized in modern day technologies such as transistors and memories, another aspect of the subatomic particle has long remained ...
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July 25, 2017 — Imagine a sensor sensitive enough to detect changes in the proton concentration of a single protein, within a single cell. This level of insight would reveal quantum-scale dynamics of that ...
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July 25, 2017 — A deep understanding of the irreversibility of the arrow of time cannot ignore the quantum nature of the world that surrounds ...
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July 25, 2017 — Magnetic quantum objects in superconductors, so-called 'fluxons,' are particularly suitable for the storage and processing of data bits. Physicists have now succeeded in producing a ...
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