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Structure of phagraphene. Image credit: Zhenhai Wang et al.

Phagraphene: Scientists Discover New Structural Variant of Carbon

Sep 3, 2015 by News Staff

A new carbon allotrope, phagraphene (standing for penta-hexa-hepta-graphene), has been discovered by an international team of physicists. It consists of...

Artist’s impression of a black hole and a normal star. Image credit: L. Calcada / ESO.

Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Don’t Destroy Information, Store It in 2D Hologram

Aug 26, 2015 by News Staff

On Tuesday, famous theoretical physicist Prof Stephen Hawking presented his latest ideas on black holes – and the possible passage of information...

A graphic of one of the highest-energy neutrino events is superimposed on a view of the IceCube Neutrino Observatiory at NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Image credit: IceCube Collaboration.

IceCube Confirms Observation of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos

Aug 21, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory – a cubic-kilometer-sized detector sunk into the ice sheet at the South Pole – have announced...

CERN Physicists Compare Light Nuclei and Antinuclei

Aug 18, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists from the ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have measured the difference between mass-to-charge ratios for antideuterons and...

This image shows a water strider together with robotic insects that can jump on water. Image credit: Seoul National University.

Researchers Create Robotic Water Strider

Jul 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers and engineers, led by Dr Kyu-Jin Cho of Seoul National University in Korea, has created an insect-like robot that can jump on water...

Weyl Fermion: Long-Sought Massless Particle Finally Observed

Jul 20, 2015 by News Staff

The Weyl fermion – an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago – has been confirmed by direct observations for the first time. A detector...

Collisions at 13 TeV send particle tracks through the LHCb detector. Image credit: LHCb.

CERN Physicists Confirm Existence of Pentaquark Particles

Jul 14, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists from CERN’s LHCb experiment announced today the observation of a pentaquark, a hadron consisting of five quarks. Illustration of the possible...

Plutonium-238 sphere under its own light. With a half-life of 89 years, plutonium-238 is being used in space applications requiring a power source with a long service life. Plutonium-238 has a relatively high heat production rate which makes it useful as a power source. Image credit: DoE.

Plutonium’s Magnetism Confirmed in New Study

Jul 13, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists at the DoE’s Los Alamos and Oak Ridge national laboratories have made the first direct measurements of a unique characteristic of plutonium’s...

The black phosphorus crystal structure is composed of puckered honeycomb layers with an interlayer distance of 0.5 nm. Image credit: V. Tayari et al.

Black Phosphorus: Alternative to Silicon for Future Electronics

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Thomas Szkopek of McGill University suggests that black phosphorus could help researchers surmount one of the big challenges for...

In this artist’s illustration, the sodium-potassium molecule is represented with frozen spheres of ice merged together: the smaller sphere on the left represents a sodium atom, and the larger sphere on the right is a potassium atom. Image credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT.

Physicists Chill Sodium-Potassium Molecules to Near Zero

Jun 12, 2015 by News Staff

A team of physicists led by Prof Martin Zwierlein from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has cooled molecules of sodium-potassium (NaK), each consisting...

The best campfires are roughly as tall as they are wide. Image credit: Adrian Bejan, Duke University.

New Study Reveals How to Build Perfect Fire

Jun 10, 2015 by News Staff

The hottest pile of burning fuel occurs when the height of the pile is roughly the same as its base diameter, according to a new study authored by Prof...

Stanford University bioengineers have developed a computer that operates on water droplets. Image credit: Kurt Hickman.

Researchers Build Water Droplet-Based Computer

Jun 9, 2015 by News Staff

A group of bioengineers led by Dr Manu Prakash of Stanford University has developed a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving water...

Atomically thin two-dimensional liquid. Image credit: Pekka Koskinen.

Scientists Predict Existence of Flat Liquid

May 26, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists from Finland has conducted computer simulations that predict the existence of an atomically thin, free-standing 2D liquid phase. Atomically...

This image shows the liquid metal antenna. Image credit: Jacob Adams.

Scientists Create Liquid Metal Antenna

May 21, 2015 by News Staff

A group of researchers headed by Dr Jacob Adams of North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a...

CERN Physicists Confirm Existence of Bs0 Meson

May 14, 2015 by News Staff

The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) and LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland report the first...

Atoms of potassium-40 are cooled during imaging by laser light, allowing thousands of photons to be collected by the new microscope. Image credit: Lawrence Cheuk / MIT.

Physicists Create Microscope for Fermionic Atoms

May 13, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Prof Martin Zwierlein of MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics has built a microscope...

The image in the left is a schematic diagram of the onion epidermal cells plated with gold of different thickness acting as the top and bottom electrodes. The image in the right displays the completed onion actuator. Credit: Chien-Chun Chen et al., doi: 10.1063/1.4917498.

Scientists Create Artificial Muscles from Gold, Onion Epidermal Cells

May 7, 2015 by News Staff

Onion artificial muscles can either expand or contract to bend in different directions depending on the driving voltage applied, says a group of scientists...

Acoustic signature of thunder. Image credit: University of Florida / Florida Institute of Technology / Southwest Research Institute.

Researchers Capture Acoustic Signature of Thunder

May 6, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute say they have visually captured the sound waves created by lightning. Acoustic signature of thunder. Image...

Scientists demonstrated how a narrow-band strobe light source for speckle-free imaging has the potential to reveal microscopic forms of life. Image credit: Research Group Materials for Microelectronic Applications / TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

Scientists Develop New Microscopy Technique

May 4, 2015 by News Staff

A group of researchers headed by Brett Hokr of Texas A&M University has demonstrated that a newly emerging technique known as random Raman lasing emission...