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Nanomaterials Feb 25, 2026

LED-powered e-nose detects multiple hazardous gases at room temperature

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed a next-generation gas sensor technology that uses low-cost and safe LED light to precisely distinguish multiple hazardous gases. Compared with conventional ...

Quantum Physics Feb 25, 2026

A protocol to realize near-perfect atom-photon entanglement

Quantum technologies, devices and systems that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could tackle some tasks more reliably and efficiently than any classical technology could. In recent years, some researchers have ...

Condensed Matter Feb 24, 2026

Quantum effect could power the next generation of battery-free devices

A new study has revealed how tiny imperfections and vibrations inside a promising quantum material could be used to control an unusual quantum effect, opening new possibilities for smaller, faster, and more efficient energy-harvesting ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 24, 2026

Physicists watch light drift in quantized steps for the first time

In physics, the classical "Hall effect," discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated when an electric current is exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. Simply put, the magnetic ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 24, 2026

Color-changing nanopigment sensor tracks pH one to ten with stable, repeatable readings

Chemists in South Korea have created a stable color-changing sensor that displays an easily quantifiable response to the pH of its surroundings. Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Dong-Hwan Kim and colleagues at ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 24, 2026

With the flip of a switch, scientists harness light to program how particles interact and assemble

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming crystals that can be used to ...

Astronomy Feb 24, 2026

CINEMA mission will explore auroras and Earth's mysterious magnetotail

Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D. student in space physics ...

Nanophysics Feb 24, 2026

Diamond surfaces are covered in thin, ice-like water layers

Using atomic-scale defects in diamond, researchers in China have gained unprecedented insights into the complex chemical processes that unfold at the interfaces between solid surfaces and their surroundings. Published in ...

Condensed Matter Feb 24, 2026

Electrical control of magnetism in 2D materials promises to advance spintronics

Conventional electronics process information leveraging the electrical charge of electrons. Over the past few decades, some electronics engineers have been exploring the potential of a different type of device that instead ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 24, 2026

How bacteria can reclaim lost energy, nutrients and clean water from wastewater

Wastewater contains untapped resources that, if reclaimed, could power agriculture, global sanitation, and its own treatment to help us meet UN SDG goals, according to a review published in Frontiers in Science.

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