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General Physics 16 hours ago

Scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration look for rule-violating electrons

In a new study published inNature Physics, scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration have tested the stringency of charge conservation and Pauli's exclusion principles using underground detectors. Alessio Porcelli has published ...

Astronomy 13 hours ago

International team detects eruption of mega-magnetic star in nearby galaxy

While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope searched for ...

Earth Sciences 11 hours ago

Scientists demonstrate high-resolution lidar sees birth zone of cloud droplets, a first-ever remote observation

A team led by atmospheric scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has demonstrated the first-ever remote observations of the fine-scale structure at the base of clouds. The results, just ...

Ecology 12 hours ago

New method makes finding bat roosts easier for conservationists

A new algorithm is making it easier for ecologists and conservationists to find bat roost locations—reducing search areas by nearly 375 times their previous size. The technology combines microphone detector data with a ...

Nanophysics 11 hours ago

Scientists reveal working mechanism of multilayer MoS₂ photodetector with broad spectral range and multiband response

As a typical two-dimensional material, MoS2 exhibits unique optical and electrical properties due to its atomic thickness in the vertical dimension, making it a research hotspot in the field of optoelectronic detection.