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- 06/05/2020 Magnetic Field Gets Up To Speed Simulations suggest that a relatively simple laser technique could produce femtosecond magnetic-field pulses, which currently are only available at a few major lab facilities.
- 04/05/2020 Featured Paper: Nanomembrane Microtubes And Hybrid Materials For Advanced Electronic Devices Some of the challenges of the next generation of smartphones, sensors and other electronic devices can be solved with the help of nanomembrane microtubes (sheets made from various materials with nanometric thicknesses and micrometric lateral dimensions, which can be self-rolled and form microtubes).
- 01/05/2020 Terahertz Imaging Using Atomic Vapor By converting low-energy photons to optical frequencies, researchers can capture images at ultrahigh speeds.
- 29/04/2020 Drops Of Liquid Crystal Molecules Branch Out Into Strange Structures Shaped by surface tension and elasticity, spherical drops of chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform upon cooling into complex shapes with long-reaching tendrils.
- 27/04/2020 High-level Nuclear Waste Storage Vessels Could Degrade Much Faster Than Previously Thought Warning signs: a recent study suggests that we need to rethink plans for the long-term storage of nuclear waste.
- 24/04/2020 How Do You Make The World’s Most Powerful Neutrino Beam? DUNE will need lots of neutrinos—and to make them, scientists and engineers will use extreme versions of some common sounding ingredients: magnets and pencil lead.
- 22/04/2020 Supercapacitor Model Captures Complex Physics Of Charging A new model that predicts the charging timescales of supercapacitors much more accurately than had been previously possible has been unveiled by researchers in the Netherlands and China.
- 20/04/2020 Terahertz Microscope Produces Highly Accurate ‘Ghost’ Images A new type of microscope that can detect terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves with unprecedented accuracy could be used to reconstruct detailed images that are inaccessible through standard methods.
- 17/04/2020 Quantum Effects Seen In Collisions Of Ultracold Ions And Atoms A new technique that allows researchers to cool ions to ultracold temperatures by placing the ions in contact with an ultracold atomic “buffer gas” has been developed by researchers in the Netherlands.
- 15/04/2020 Physicists Place Stringent Limits On The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment For more than 60 years, physicists have been searching for a miniscule separation of charge within the neutron known as an electric dipole moment.