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Flow units: Dynamic defects in metallic glasses

Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)

Recent studies found that amorphous materials are intrinsically spatially and temporally heterogeneous, which implies the possibility to identify the dynamic de...

Doing the wave: how stretchy fluids react to wavy surfaces

Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have brought us one step closer by demonstrating how viscoelastic flui...

Making steps toward improved data storage

Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)

Compact discs might be falling out of fashion, but they may have inspired the next generation of computer nanotechnology. A glass layer in CDs consists of a pha...

Laser blasting antimatter into existence

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

How do scientists make antimatter? When electrons, negatively charged subatomic particles, move back and forth they give off light. If they move very fast, they...

Physicists name and codify new field in nanotechnology: 'electron quantum metamaterials'

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

"It's a bit like driving past a vineyard and looking out the window at the vineyard rows. Every now and then, you see no rows because you're looking directly al...

Flying focus: Controlling lasers through time and space

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

A "flying focus" combines a lens that focuses specific colors of light at different locations with the recent Nobel Prize winning chirped-pulse amplification te...

Russian physicists upgrade cheap diode laser for use in precise measurements

Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)

The study came out Oct. 26 in Nature Photonics and was co-authored by researchers fr om the Russian Quantum Center (RQC), the Moscow Institute of Physics and Te...

Disorder plays a key role in phase transitions of materials

Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)

While these arrangements can be easily studied in each phase individually, it is significantly harder to study how they change their arrangements from one state...

NUS researchers turn plastic bottle waste into ultralight supermaterial

Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)

Plastic bottles are commonly made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is the most recycled plastic in the world. The PET aerogels developed by the NUS-...

Spaced-out nanotwins make for stronger metals

Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)

In a paper in the journal Science, the researchers show that varying the spacing between twin boundaries, as opposed to maintaining consistent spacing throughou...

Video game action heads for the cloud

Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)

Computing power in data centers and devices from televisions to smartphones has surged and streaming technology has advanced, providing tools to break blockbust...

NASA team investigates ultrafast laser machining for multiple spaceflight applications

Nov 02, 2018 (SPX)

A team of optical physicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is experimenting with a femtosecond laser and has already shown that ...

Atomic path from insulator to metal messier than thought

Nov 02, 2018 (SPX)

The study, which appears Nov. 2 in the journal Science, is a collaboration between researchers at Duke University, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at S...

Astroscale secures new funding for LEO debris clean up concept

Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)

Founded in 2013 by a single individual, Astroscale has grown into an organization of nearly 60 people spread across four countries, with most of the team locate...

Bose-Einstein condensate generated in space for the first time

Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)

After a detailed analysis, the results have been published recently in the journal Nature. The Bose-Einstein condensate, an ultracold gas, can be used as a star...

Flexy, flat and functional magnets

Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)

An international research team led by PARK Je-Geun at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has just publish...

Super-computer brings 'cloud' to astronauts in space

Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)

A SpaceX cargo capsule delivered the equipment, known as The Spaceborne Computer, to the space station in August 2017. After more than a year of tests, HPE says...

The materials engineers are developing environmentally friendly materials

Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)

The article introduces nanofibers, a material produced by the electrospinning device at the Laboratory of Polymers and Textile Technology in Tallinn University ...

Researchers discover weak chemical interactions hold together box of infinite possibilities

Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)

"I want to understand self-assembly systems, which are essential for life. Building artificial self-assembling cubes helps us understand how biological systems ...

Eye-tracking glasses provide a new vision for the future of augmented reality

Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)

High power consumption and cost have kept eye trackers out of current augmented reality systems. By using near-infrared lights and photodiodes, Dartmouth's Dart...