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Nanophysics Jul 21, 2025

Laser-generated nanoparticles promise cleaner, smarter artificial sensory systems

A new review highlights a powerful, cleaner route to produce ultra-clean, customizable nanoparticles—key building blocks for artificial sensory systems that mimic human perception and power emerging technologies like extended ...

Astronomy Jul 17, 2025

Galaxy cluster Abell 3558 has a peculiar mini-halo, observations suggest

An international team of astronomers has performed multi-band radio observations of diffuse radio emission in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 3558. As a result, the observational campaign detected that the cluster hosts a ...

General Physics Jul 16, 2025

Universal method unlocks entropy calculation for liquids

A groundbreaking new method developed at the University of Osaka calculates the entropy of liquids using a non-empirical approach, requiring only the atomic species as input. The paper is published in the Journal of Physics: ...

Materials Science Jul 16, 2025

Researchers develop high-entropy ceramic for high-temperature sensors

As aeroengine thrust-to-weight ratios continue to improve, the operating temperature of their hot-end components has risen steadily, placing stricter demands on the performance of temperature sensors. Among potential solutions, ...

Plants & Animals Jul 8, 2025

How plants manage light: New insights into nature's oxygen-making machinery

A set of breakthroughs from scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is offering a new understanding of how energy flows through one of nature's most important molecular ...

Economics & Business Jul 7, 2025

Smarter, faster, stronger: AI fuels the rise of new productive forces

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful catalyst for transforming enterprise productivity. A new study analyzing data from more than 27,000 Chinese listed firms finds that AI significantly enhances what are ...

Analytical Chemistry Jul 3, 2025

AI helps discover optimal new material for removing radioactive iodine contamination

Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 million years in the case ...

General Physics Jul 3, 2025

Quantum equivalent of thermodynamics' second law discovered for entanglement manipulation

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum world. This second law of ...

Quantum Physics Jul 2, 2025

Quantum computer simulates spontaneous symmetry breaking at zero temperature

For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement, which was accomplished ...

Condensed Matter Jun 30, 2025

Entropy engineering opens new avenue for robust quantum anomalous Hall effect in 2D magnets

A research team from the University of Wollongong's (UOW) Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) has addressed a 40-year-old quantum puzzle, unlocking a new pathway to creating next-generation electronic ...

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