Figure 1. A schematic illustration of the demonstrated ultrafast and energy efficient switching of ferromagnet driven by a single femtosecond laser pulse. The laser pulse…
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Pioneering Experiment Turns IBM’s Largest Quantum Computer Into a Quantum Material
University of Chicago scientists programmed an IBM quantum computer to become a type of material called an exciton condensate. Credit: IBM Pioneering experiment could help…
View More Pioneering Experiment Turns IBM’s Largest Quantum Computer Into a Quantum MaterialNew Plutonium Breakthrough: Measuring the Previously “Unmeasurable” Helps Distinguish Nuclear Power Pollution From Global Fallout
Researchers looking at miniscule levels of plutonium pollution in our soils have made a breakthrough that could help inform future ‘clean up’ operations on land…
View More New Plutonium Breakthrough: Measuring the Previously “Unmeasurable” Helps Distinguish Nuclear Power Pollution From Global FalloutEngineers Creates New Ultralightweight, Crush-Resistant Tensegrity Metamaterials
Novel tensegrity metamaterials by UCI and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers employ isolated compressive loop elements that are exclusively connected through a continuous network of…
View More Engineers Creates New Ultralightweight, Crush-Resistant Tensegrity MetamaterialsResearchers Debunk Decade-Old Photonics Myth, Demonstrate Practical Metal Nanostructures
An artist’s view of a metasurface consisting of a rectangular array of rectangular gold nanostructures generating plasmonic surface lattice resonances. Credit: Yaryna Mamchur, co-author and…
View More Researchers Debunk Decade-Old Photonics Myth, Demonstrate Practical Metal NanostructuresColumbia Engineers Use DNA Nanotechnology to Build Tough 3D Nanomaterials
Mineralization of 3D lattice formed by DNA tetrahedra (about 30 nm) and gold nanoparticle into all-inorganic 3D silica-Au replicas with preserved architecture. Credit: Oleg Gang/Columbia…
View More Columbia Engineers Use DNA Nanotechnology to Build Tough 3D NanomaterialsUnusual Material Features Spontaneous Superconducting Currents – Why It Superconducts at All Is Completely Unknown
Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals,…
View More Unusual Material Features Spontaneous Superconducting Currents – Why It Superconducts at All Is Completely UnknownNASA Microphone Detects Turbulence Hundreds of Miles Away Using Infrasound
The HiDRON is a unique balloon-launched unmanned glider capable of high-altitude flight; autonomous and soaring flight modes; and operates well in the cold stratospheric environment…
View More NASA Microphone Detects Turbulence Hundreds of Miles Away Using InfrasoundSweden’s Quantum Computer Project Shifts up a Gear and Sets Higher Goals
The cryostat cooling Chalmers University’s quantum processor to close to abolute zero. Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is almost…
View More Sweden’s Quantum Computer Project Shifts up a Gear and Sets Higher GoalsSwiss Scientists Generate Electricity From Wood
Full of energy: Modified wood can generate electricity through deformation. Is a tango enough for dim light? Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have made…
View More Swiss Scientists Generate Electricity From Wood