Making a superconductor liquid–solid out of the vacuum with hundred-exatesla-strong magnetic fields
The discovery of superconductivity more than a century ago has significantly changed our world.
News tagged with vacuum
Study: Physicists create giant trilobite Rydberg molecules
Kaiserslautern physicists in the team of Professor Dr. Herwig Ott have succeeded for the first time in directly observing pure trilobite Rydberg molecules. Particularly interesting is that these molecules have a very peculiar ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 18, 2023
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Physicist explains X-rays that shouldn't exist in 'cold' plasma
For about 20 years, Caltech Professor of Applied Physics Paul Bellan and his group have been creating magnetically accelerated jets of plasma, an electrically conducting gas composed of ions and electrons, in a vacuum chamber ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 5, 2023
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Trailblazing new Earth satellite put to test in preparation for launch
NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed a major milestone on Nov. 13, emerging from a 21-day test aimed at evaluating its ability to function ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 14, 2023
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Single nanoscale hybrid system for studying the vacuum fluctuation field
When you think of empty space, you almost certainly imagine a vacuum in which nothing interesting can ever happen. However, if we zoom in to tiny length scales where quantum effects start to become important, it turns out ...
Nanophysics
Nov 6, 2023
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Image: High-power thruster qualification testing for Gateway
The blue hue of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) is seen inside a vacuum chamber at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland during recent thruster qualification testing. This 12-kilowatt Hall thruster is the ...
Space Exploration
Nov 2, 2023
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Recent advances in Raman spectroelectrochemistry on single-crystal surfaces
Benefiting from a principally contaminant-free and well-defined surface, single-crystal electrodes proffer new insights into interfacial processes and are important in electrochemistry. The surface atom density can be utilized ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 26, 2023
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Image: Readying a little rover
An engineer prepares a small rover for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber on Oct. 24, 2023, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Planetary Sciences
Oct 26, 2023
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Researchers decipher role of triglycerides in cellular barrier of tuberculosis pathogen
Tuberculosis is a severe infectious disease that claims about 1.3 million lives annually world-wide. This dismal toll is caused by the notorious pathogen Mycobacteria tuberculosis, whose bitter success depends on its formidable ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 25, 2023
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Illuminating errors creates a new paradigm for quantum computing
Researchers have developed a method that can reveal the location of errors in quantum computers, making them up to 10 times easier to correct. This will significantly accelerate progress towards large-scale quantum computers ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 11, 2023
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