Researchers have found quantitative evidence for a mechanism long predicted to be responsible for high-temperature...

Customer-centric product innovation is helping US manufacturer RHK Technology to prosper at the cutting edge of surface science ...

Materials that conduct electricity on their outsides, but not their insides, were once thought to be unusual. In fact, they’re ubiquitous,...

A century ago, the German physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach carried out an experiment that gave an important credibility boost...

Overlooking the city of Granada in southern Spain, the Alhambra palace and fortress is an...

Nuclear scientists have confirmed that the present description of the proton structure isn’t perfect. There has been an uptick in the data in probes...

The method called density functional theory or DFT. It is used in physics, chemistry, and materials science to study the electronic structure of many-body...

Physicists at MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science have visualized whirlpools in an electron fluid. This is the first time they observed electrons...

Large increase in light output could lead to better medical imaging

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New theory suggests that a quantum version of friction plays an important role in nanoscale fluid dynamics

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Theoretical work sheds light on the origins of unconventional superconductivity in 2D carbon

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There’s been no greater act of magic in technology than the sleight of hand performed by Moore’s Law. Electronic components that once fit in your palm have long gone atomic, vanishing from our world to take up residence in the quantum realm. But we’re now brushing the bitter limits of this trend. In a paper […]