A tool that uses light to manipulate matter inside living cells has begun to explain how proteins assemble into different liquid and gel-like solid states, a key to understanding many critical cellular operations.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 29, 2016
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In its search for extrasolar planets, the Kepler space telescope looks for stars whose light flux periodically dims, signaling the passing of an orbiting planet in front of the star. But the timing and duration of diminished ...
Astronomy
Dec 20, 2016
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Whether water freezes to ice, iron is demagnetized or a material becomes superconducting – for physicists there is always a phase transition behind it. They endeavour to understand these different phenomena by searching ...
Superconductivity
Dec 16, 2016
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Researchers from Brown University have demonstrated an unusual method of putting the brakes on superconductivity, the ability of a material to conduct an electrical current with zero resistance.
Superconductivity
Nov 30, 2016
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New research conducted at the University of Chicago has confirmed a decades-old theory describing the dynamics of continuous phase transitions.
Quantum Physics
Nov 4, 2016
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A major technological advance in the field of high-speed beam-scanning devices has increased the speed of 2-D and 3-D printing by up to 1000 times, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Engineering.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 1, 2016
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A team of scientists, led by the University of Southampton, have produced a fast nanoscale optical transistor using gold nanoantenna assisted phase transition.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 21, 2016
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Some materials hold surprising – and possibly useful – properties: neodymium nickel oxide is either a metal or an insulator, depending on its temperature. This characteristic makes the material a potential candidate for ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 11, 2016
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Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 10, 2016
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Physicists have for the first time succeeded in directly visualising on small scales how a material abruptly changes its state from conducting to insulating at low temperatures. Researchers Erik van Heumen of the University ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 13, 2016
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