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- Exotic Particles Called Pentaquarks May Be Less Weird Than Previously Thought 03/07/2019 The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has discovered three new pentaquarks.
- The Language Of Physics 01/07/2019 30 words that mean something different to scientists.
- Nanoscale Optical Imaging Gets Simpler And Cheaper 29/06/2019 The promise of optical imaging and its wealth of spectroscopic information at nanoscale resolution seems too good to be true, and for many labs it has been.
- X-Ray Diffraction Reveals Switching Mechanism In Phase-Change Materials 27/06/2019 Phase-change materials can be reversibly switched between their glassy and crystalline states by applying a voltage that heats up the material or by directly heating them up with a laser.
- Strain Switches 2D Phase-Change Transistor 25/06/2019 A new way to switch transistors could overcome the power consumption and undesirable current leakage problems encountered in conventional nanoscale field-effect devices.
- Single-Spin System Breaks Quantum Symmetry 23/06/2019 Researchers say they have observed parity-time symmetry breaking for the first time in an experiment.
- Metal Ion Separation Speeds Up 21/06/2019 A faster method to purify elements.
- Emerging Photovoltaic Technology Efficiencies Line Up 19/06/2019 As the first ever table of efficiencies for emerging photovoltaic technologies is published in Journal of Physics: Energy, Edgardo Saucedo, an investigator at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, talks to Anna Demming about the motivation and strategy behind it.
- Perovskites A Single Crystal Unit Thick Stand Free 17/06/2019 The crystalline lattice of free-standing perovskites would collapse in films less than five crystal lattice units thick.
- To Catch A Quantum Jump 15/06/2019 Is it possible to know if a quantum jump is about to occur? Researchers have been asking themselves this question for a long time, and the answer is a resounding “yes”, according to a new study by a team at Yale University in the US.
- Inexpensive Thermoelectric Material Works At Room Temperature 13/06/2019 Researchers have fabricated a room-temperature thermoelectric material that is as good as the best commercially available material in its class but is much cheaper.