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Environment Jan 20, 2020

How bitter cold winter blasts and a warming planet will chew up the Lake Michigan shoreline

On a tucked-away South Shore beach, there once were cool shallows to swim and buried shells to dig up. For those living feet away, there was the sound of the water, the constant, gentle splash on sand.

Nanophysics Mar 16, 2022

'Self-driving' lab speeds up research, synthesis of energy materials

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University at Buffalo have developed and demonstrated a "self-driving lab" that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and fluidic systems to advance our understanding of ...

Nanomaterials Nov 29, 2016

Hybrid approach predicts and confirms structure of complex metal nanoparticles

A combined theoretical and experimental approach has allowed researchers to predict and verify the full structure of a monolayer-coated molecular metal nanoparticle. The methodology was tested on silver-thiolate nanoparticles, ...

General Physics Dec 20, 2013

It's a negative on negative absolute temperatures

The concept of a perpetual motion machine is an enticing one: Imagine a machine that runs continuously without requiring any external energy—a feat that could make refueling vehicles a thing of the past.

Optics & Photonics Aug 10, 2022

'Eternal engine' inspires the next generation of ultraprecise atomic clocks

UK scientists have created an "eternal engine" to keep the next generation of atomic clock ticking.

Quantum Physics Aug 2, 2023

Calculations reveal high-resolution view of quarks inside protons

A collaboration of nuclear theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Temple University, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poland, and the University of Bonn, ...

Evolution Jul 20, 2009

Team shows how evolution can allow for large developmental leaps

How evolution acts to bridge the chasm between two discrete physiological states is a question that's long puzzled scientists. Most evolutionary changes, after all, happen in tiny increments: an elephant grows a little larger, ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 5, 2024

Scientists harness chemical dynamics for complex problem solving

At the intersection of chemistry and computation, researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a hybrid digital-chemical probabilistic computational system based on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction which ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 30, 2016

New optical material offers unprecedented control of light and thermal radiation

A team led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered a new phase-transition optical material and demonstrated novel devices that dynamically control light over a much broader ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 23, 2022

Insights into optical resonances determined by the topology of the Möbius strip

In the current issue of Nature Photonics, Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt, Dr. Libo Ma and partners present a strategy for observing and manipulating the optical Berry phase in Möbius ring microcavities. In their research paper, ...

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