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- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Resolves Atomic Scale Detail 25/07/2019 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most common techniques used to image internal body parts of animals and humans, in particular for cancer diagnosis.
- Has Metallic Hydrogen Been Made At Long Last? 17/07/2019 Has metallic hydrogen been spotted at SOLEIL?
- ‘Colossal Elastocaloric Effect’ Could Lead To Better Refrigerators 15/07/2019 Squash and squeeze: changing the crystal structure of an elastocaloric material involves the exchange of heat.
- Machine Learning Collaborations Accelerate Materials Discovery 13/07/2019 Data driven science.
- Liquefied Gas Electrolyte Improves Lithium-Ion Anodes 11/07/2019 Improvements to liquefied gas electrolytes could pave the way to a high-impact and long-sought advance for rechargeable batteries
- The Promise Of Silicon Photonics 09/07/2019 Photonics-based computing uses less energy and can transmit data faster than conventional approaches, but the costs of manufacturing silicon integrated circuits with embedded photonic elements have held back progress. Scott Jordan outlines how improved optical positioning technologies could help
- ‘Little Big Coil’ Creates Record-Breaking Continuous Magnetic Field 07/07/2019 The highest continuous magnetic field ever created in the lab has been achieved by physicists in the US.
- Magnets That Double Efficiency Of Water Splitting Could Help Usher In A Hydrogen Economy 05/07/2019 Simply bringing an ordinary permanent magnet within touching distance of a water splitting reactor can double the process’ efficiency. Slashing the amount of energy required to split water opens the way to industrial production of hydrogen and an economy that runs on the gas, all powered by renewable energy.
- 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.