Acoustic Levitation Made Simple
WASHINGTON D.C., January 5, 2015 — A team of researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil has developed a new levitation device that can hover […]
Gift-Wrapped Gas Molecules
WASHINGTON D.C., December 30, 2014 – A group of scientists led by researchers at the Université de Versailles’ Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to […]
A Qubit Candidate Shines Brighter
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 29, 2014 – In the race to design the world’s first universal quantum computer, a special kind of diamond defect called a nitrogen vacancy […]
How the Physics of Champagne and Soda Bubbles May Help Address the World’s Future Energy Needs
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 18, 2014 — Uncork a bottle of champagne, and as the pressure of the liquid is abruptly removed, bubbles immediately form and then rapidly […]
Future Batteries: Lithium-Sulfur with a Graphene Wrapper
WASHINGTON D.C., December 16, 2014 — What do you get when you wrap a thin sheet of the “wonder material” graphene around a novel multifunctional sulfur electrode […]
Microwave Imaging of the Breast
WASHINGTON D.C., December 16, 2014 — Although currently available diagnostic screening systems for breast cancer like X-ray computed tomography (CT) and mammography are effective at detecting early […]
Nanoscale Resistors for Quantum Devices
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 2014 – Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology have made new compact, high-value resistors for nanoscale quantum circuits. The resistors could speed […]
Field-emission plug-and-play solution for microwave electron guns
WASHINGTON D.C., November 18, 2014 – On a quest to design an alternative to the two complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, […]
New model clarifies photoexcited thin-film lattice dynamics
WASHINGTON D.C., November 18, 2014 — A research team from Germany developed an analytical model to describe the structural dynamics of photoexcited thin films and verified it […]