Search results for low-temperature

Plasma Physics 13 hours ago

Plasma fusion: Adding just enough fuel to the fire

How much fuel can we add to the fire while still maintaining control? Metaphorically speaking, that's the question one team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has been asking themselves ...

Quantum Physics 16 hours ago

Quantum computing just got hotter: One degree above absolute zero

For decades, the pursuit of quantum computing has struggled with the need for extremely low temperatures, mere fractions of a degree above absolute zero (0 Kelvin or –273.15°C). That's because the quantum phenomena that ...

Condensed Matter 19 hours ago

Researchers find first experimental evidence for a graviton-like particle in a quantum material

A team of scientists from Columbia, Nanjing University, Princeton, and the University of Munster, writing in the journal Nature, have presented the first experimental evidence of collective excitations with spin called chiral ...

Analytical Chemistry 18 hours ago

Team discovers fundamentally new way to detect radiation involving cheap ceramics

The radiation detectors used today for applications like inspecting cargo ships for smuggled nuclear materials are expensive and cannot operate in harsh environments, among other disadvantages. Now, MIT engineers have demonstrated ...

Optics & Photonics 18 hours ago

Advancing quantum networks: Study achieves largest photon emission enhancement for single T center to date

Rice University engineers have demonstrated a way to control the optical properties of atomic imperfections in silicon material known as T centers, paving the way toward leveraging these point defects for building quantum ...

Nanomaterials 18 hours ago

Scientists propose theoretical design strategy for room-temperature metal-organic multiferroics

A research group led by Prof. Li Xiangyang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has theoretically predicted a series of multiferroic materials that can be applied in room-temperature ...

Nanomaterials 20 hours ago

Electronic device thermal management made simpler and slightly better

Dr. Cheol-Woo Ahn, leading a research team at the Department of Functional Ceramics within the Ceramic Materials Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed the world's first heat dissipation ...

Plants & Animals 16 hours ago

Venomous snakes could start migrating in large numbers if we hit 5ºC warming, predict scientists

A global group of scientists has predicted that climate change may cause dramatic movements in venomous snake populations across many countries in Africa. The scientists took into account climate change predictions about ...

Environment 16 hours ago

UK's summer 2022 drought provides warning for future years, say scientists

The UK will be increasingly tested by more droughts like 2022, emphasizing the importance of being prepared for similar extreme weather in future, say scientists who have analyzed that summer's events.

Planetary Sciences Mar 27, 2024

Astronomers conduct first search for forming planets with James Webb Space Telescope

Planets form in disks of dust and gas called protoplanetary disks that whirl around a central protostar during its final assembly. Although several dozens of such disks have been imaged, just two planets have been caught ...

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