Vortex structures are common in nature, reaching from swirls in our morning coffee to spiral galaxies in the universe. Vortices are been best known from fluid dynamics. Take the example of a tornado. Air circulates around ...
General Physics
Jun 12, 2018
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Mapping genetic influences on connections between neural networks could lead to a better understanding of brain organization and behavior.
Mathematics
May 15, 2018
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Researchers have discovered three distinct variants of magnetic domain walls in the helimagnet iron germanium (FeGe). Their results have been published in Nature Physics. Researcher Dennis Meier, an associate professor at ...
General Physics
May 3, 2018
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Nobody really knows what plant roots are doing when they're at home. Digging up a plant exposes the roots, but destroys the soil's natural fabric. Information is lost about the intact natural arrangement of the roots and ...
General Physics
May 1, 2018
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UZH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in which proteins interact with one another and cells organize themselves. This new mechanism involves two fully unstructured proteins forming an ultra-high-affinity ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 2018
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Iron-based superconductors contain layers of iron and a pnictogen – such as arsenic or phosphorus – or a chalcogen, like oxygen or selenium. Previously dismissed as weak candidates for superconductivity, iron-based superconductors ...
Superconductivity
Dec 13, 2017
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A feature of science fiction stories for decades, nanorobot potential ranges from cancer diagnosis and drug delivery to tissue repair and more. A major hurdle to these endeavors, however, is finding a way to cheaply make ...
Nanophysics
Nov 30, 2017
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For the first time, physicists have developed a technique that can peer deep beneath the surface of a material to identify the energies and momenta of electrons there.
General Physics
Nov 16, 2017
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Neutron diffraction at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering has clarified the absence of magnetic order and classified the superconductivity of a new next-generation of superconductors in a paper published in Europhysics ...
Superconductivity
Sep 13, 2017
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On an otherwise normal day in the lab, Eva Andrei didn't expect to make a major discovery. Andrei, a physics professor at Rutgers University, was using graphite – the material in pencils – to calibrate a scanning tunneling ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 31, 2017
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