It takes a very, very clean room to build a detector sensitive enough to see the light from the beginning of the universe.
General Physics
Oct 18, 2016
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Researchers from the Graphene Flagship use layered materials to create an all-electrical quantum light emitting diodes (LED) with single-photon emission. These LEDs have potential as on-chip photon sources in quantum information ...
Nanophysics
Sep 26, 2016
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University of Guelph researchers studying the intimate structure of edible fats are getting help from the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 22, 2016
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Researchers from North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel approach to materials characterization, using Bayesian ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 23, 2016
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In a new study, researchers from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory have teamed up to capture neon within a porous crystalline framework. ...
Materials Science
Aug 15, 2016
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Extraordinary things happen to ordinary materials when they are subjected to very high pressure and temperature. Sodium, a conductive metal in normal conditions, becomes a transparent insulator; gaseous hydrogen becomes a ...
Nanophysics
Aug 1, 2016
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The true stripes of triple-layer metal oxides are charge stripes, physicists say.
Superconductivity
Jul 27, 2016
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Washington State University researchers have met the long-standing scientific challenge of watching a material change its crystal structure in real time.
Condensed Matter
Jul 25, 2016
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Just how dark does it have to be before our eyes stop working? Research by a team from Rockefeller University and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Austria has shown that humans can detect the presence of a ...
General Physics
Jul 21, 2016
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A team of physicists that visualized the internal nanostructure of an intact butterfly wing has discovered two physical attributes that make those structures so bright and colorful.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 10, 2016
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