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Environment Mar 14, 2024

Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics

Anthropogenic plastic pollution is often experienced through evocative images of marine animals caught in floating debris, yet its reach is far more expansive. The polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctica are increasingly ...

Quantum Physics Mar 7, 2024

Scientists propose new scheme for the quantum battery using waveguides

A new study by researchers at Lanzhou University and Hubei University proposes a quantum battery (QB) charging scheme based on a rectangular hollow metal waveguide. This approach allows them to overcome environment-induced ...

Earth Sciences Feb 26, 2024

Earthquakes impact forest resilience for decades post-event, research suggests

Earthquake effects are often thought of in terms of the human impact, be that fatalities or destruction to homes and infrastructure. However, the environmental toll can also be damaging, and new research, published in Nature ...

General Physics Oct 13, 2021

Study demonstrates the potential of a quantum computer comprised of a small processor and a storage unit

Quantum computing systems, computer systems that are based on the key principles of quantum theory, could significantly outperform conventional computing systems, both in terms of speed and performance. Over the past decade ...

General Physics Sep 27, 2021

Study demonstrates the robust storage of qubits in ultracold polar molecules

Molecules have a very intricate and rich structure, which allows them to rotate and vibrate freely. As a result, they have an almost limitless space in which computer scientists could encode quantum information. In addition ...

Materials Science Oct 14, 2020

Designing hierarchical nanoporous membranes for highly efficient adsorption and storage applications

In the field of volatile organic compounds, graphene oxides have attracted attention as two-dimensional (2-D) materials with nanoporous membranes due to their molecular-sieve-like architectural properties and functional simplicity ...

Materials Science Jul 13, 2020

Long-term heat-storage ceramics absorbing thermal energy from hot water

Approximately seventy percent of the thermal energy generated in thermal and nuclear power plants is lost as waste heat, with a temperature below the boiling point of water. In a recent report on Science Advances, Yoshitaka ...

Nanophysics Apr 7, 2020

DNA Lego bricks enable fast rewritable data storage

DNA data storage may become easier to read and write than before, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory in the U.K. They report on a technique that can also store encrypted data, as ...

Nanophysics Jun 19, 2019

Graphene-based ink may lead to printable energy storage devices

Researchers have created an ink made of graphene nanosheets, and demonstrated that the ink can be used to print 3-D structures. As the graphene-based ink can be mass-produced in an inexpensive and environmentally friendly ...

General Physics Nov 17, 2016

Superlattice of single-atom magnets aims for ultimate limit of high-density data storage

(Phys.org)—Scientists have fabricated a superlattice of single-atom magnets on graphene with a density of 115 terabits per square inch, suggesting that the configuration could lead to next-generation storage media.

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