BrainCan - general physics

materials by design: a radical shift in...

(Phys.org)—Statistical physics – the branch of physics that solves physical problem by using...

death by design spatial models show that natural...

(Phys.org)—Standard evolutionary theories of aging and mortality,being based on mean-field...

clever cloaks unique metamaterials preserve phase...

(Phys.org)Today's photonic and plasmonic devices – the latter based on surface plasmons (a...

a swimming microrobot is driven by a light induced...

Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny,the water in which they live is like thick honey to...

supercomputers on the trail of dark matter

Almost all mass on soil,humans included, derives from the atomic nuclei. These nuclei consist mainly...

loop quantum gravity theory offers glimpse beyond...

In principle,nothing that enters a black gap can leave the black gap. This has considerably...

the role of electron diffusivity when turning...

Many phenomena in physics,though famous, are not necessarily widely understood. That's the case...

prototype gravitational wave spacecraft sets new...

A key component of a future gravitational wave observatory passed a series of tests with flying...

cooling chips with the flip of a switch

Turn on an electric field,and a standard electrocaloric material will eject heat to its environment...

scanning for skyrmions: scientists directly image...

Magnetic skyrmions,or noncoplanar swirling spin textures, are particle-like spin configurations with...

achieving zero resistance in energy flow

Laptop computer users operating their devices on their laps will be familiar with the heat they...

diphoton bump at lhc leads to generation of...

(Phys.org)—Last year,two teams working at the LHC reported that they had found proton-to-proton...

biophysicists measure for the first time what...

For the first time,and using physical methods, scientists possess demonstrated how red blood cells...

1400 km of optical fiber connect optical clocks in...

In the past few years,optical atomic clocks have made spectacular progress, becoming 100 times more...

scientists unveil fundamental properties of spin...

Thermoelectric effects are a fundamental building block for the conception and development of modern...

scientists find surprising magnetic excitations in...

Some three-dimensional materials can exhibit exotic properties that only exist in "lower"...

new approach to nuclear structure, freely...

The atomic nucleus is highly complex. This complexity partly stems from the nuclear interactions in...

nuclear physics interdisciplinary progress

The theoretical view of the structure of the atom nucleus is not carved in stone....

geometric heat engine simultaneously maximizes...

(Phys.org)—As its name suggests,a heat engine converts heat into mechanical energy that can be...

mysterious x ray signal does not originate from...

A mysterious X-ray sign from clusters of galaxies recently caused some excitement among astronomers:...

using terahertz laser, scientists change the...

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have,for the first time, successfully...

us army camera captures explosives in fine detail

When the script of Lawrence of Arabia called for wrecking a train,director David Lean found it...

decoding the brain scientists redefine and measure...

(Phys.org)—The sign-to-noise ratio,or SNR, is a famous metric typically expressed in decibels and...

shape programmable miniscule robots

One day,microrobots may be able to swim through the human body like sperm or paramecia to carry out...

physicist claims to have observed quantum effects...

(Phys.org)—Jeff Steinhauer,a physicist at the Israel Institute of Technology, has published a...

mixing topology and spin

In the pursuit of material platforms for the next generation of electronics,scientists are studying...

skyrmions—magnetic vortices for it of the future

Magnetic vortices - so-called skyrmions - were predicted theoretically more than 25 years ago,but it...

a new spintronics material promises huge leaps in...

An international team of researchers possess been using Diamond Light Source to examine what could...

electronic counterpart to ecological models...

Predicting the future from the present - that's what logistic maps can do. For example,they can...

death by gamma ray bursts may place first lower...

(Phys.org)—Sometimes when a star collapses into a supernova,it releases an intense, narrow beam of...

superconductors could detect superlight dark...

(Phys.org)—Many experiments are currently searching for dark matter—the invisible substance that...

neutral result charges up antimatter research

Scientists of the international ALPHA Collaboration have once again pushed the boundaries of...

new method for selectively controlling the motion...

As our technology downsizes,scientists often operate in microscopic-scale jungles, where modern-day...

researchers generate proton beams using a...

Light,when strongly concentrated, is enormously powerful. Now, or a team of physicists led by...

research team reproduces major functional...

How does the human brain collect,process and store the flow of data which it constantly encounters?...

$worlds fastest electron diffraction snapshots of...$

worlds fastest electron diffraction snapshots of...

Scientists have made a meaningful advance toward making movies of extremely lickety-split atomic...

researchers prove huygens was right about pendulum...

In 1665 Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks,hung from the same wooden structure,...

mysterious radio signals from space discovered to...

A novel way to test one of the basic principles underlying Einstein's theory of General...

physicists propose new definition of time...

(Phys.org)—For the past few years,physicists have been intrigued by a hypothetical system called a...

researcher creates a controlled rogue wave in...

Potentially extremely risky realistic rogue waves - also called as freak waves - can now be...

scientists develop a simulation model to take the...

The scientific community uses spheres for all sorts of things—artificial limbs,cars, molecular...

eupraxia to design world first plasma accelerator...

Accelerator scientists from across Europe are collaborating to design the world's first high...

storage density beyond 10 tb in2 possible for heat...

(Phys.org)—Global demand for data storage is constantly increasing,driven by unusual technologies...

determining the structures of nanocrystalline...

dependable information approximately the structure of pharmaceutical compounds is important for...

fast moving invisibility cloaks become visible

(Phys.org)—Physicists enjoy found that invisibility cloaks that can achieve perfect invisibility...

first all antiferromagnetic memory device could...

If you haven't already heard of antiferromagnetic spintronics it won't be long before you...

scientists harvest energy from beam039s self...

(Phys.org)—In an attempt to harvest the kinetic energy of airflow,researchers own demonstrated the...

researchers chip away at smales 7th unsolved...

(Phys.org)—How do you arrange a group of points on the surface of a sphere so that all the points...

team analyzed network heterogeneity of...

If you've ever felt groggy the morning after traversing time zones,you can thank the temporary...

direct detection of nuclear transition in thorium...

(Phys.org)—A group of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Germany has developed a...

bending current opens up the way for a new type of...

exercise your computer without the need to start it up: a new type of magnetic memory makes it...

how many ways can you arrange 128 tennis balls?...

Researchers fill solved an apparently overwhelming physics problem involving some truly huge...

anti hydrogen origin revealed by collision...

Antihydrogen is a particular kind of atom,made up of the antiparticle of an electron—a...

what happens when newton039s third law is broken

Even whether you don't know it by name,everyone is familiar with Newton's third law, which...

scientists use neutrons to understand the secrets...

Microorganisms represent the most numerous life on soil and the understanding of how they behave is...

physicists measured something new in the...

A physics experiment performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has...

slac researchers recreate the extreme universe in...

Conditions in the huge universe can be quite extreme: Violent collisions scar the surfaces of...

ligo researchers suggest background noise due to...

(Phys.org)—The research team working with the LIGO project has proposed that the data gleaned from...

physics pair show that ising model can be used as...

(Phys.org)—A pair of physicists has shown that it is possible to convert disparate spin models...

physicists zoom in on gluons contribution to...

By analyzing the highest-energy proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC),a...

solar cell sets world record with a stabilized...

(Phys.org)—In a new study,scientists have reported a world record stabilized efficiency of 13.6%...

time crystals might exist after all

(Phys.org)—Are time crystals just a mathematical curiosity,or could they actually physically...

high speed electron camera films atomic nuclei in...

An ultrafast "electron camera" at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator...

a nonlinear effect that seemingly turns materials...

Imagine getting a medical X-ray that comes out empty – as if your bones had vanished. That's...

electron injector for european xfel x ray laser...

DESY has successfully concluded tests of the first section of the particle accelerator for the...

possible evidence of human ability to detect...

(Phys.org)—A scientist who has dedicated a significant portion of his life to proving or...

converting waste heat into electricity works...

(Phys.org)—The large amount of waste heat produced by power plants and automobile engines can be...

possible case for fifth force of nature

A team of physicists at the University of California has uploaded a paper to the arXiv preprint...

the contrarian dance of dna

hold a close-up sight at DNA; you'll see it wiggles in the oddest way. Put more...

first high energy neutrino traced to an origin...

(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has spotted the first instance of a high-energy...

probing the transforming world of neutrinos

Every moment,trillions of neutrinos travel through your body unnoticed. Neutrinos are among the most...

computer simulation reveals new effect of...

Researchers maintain discovered a so far unknown formation mechanism of cavitation bubbles by means...

simplifying supersonic nozzle pressure monitoring

A bit of serendipity ((n.) luck, finding good things without looking for them) while carrying out a...

simple math, antimatter, and the birth of the...

If x2 = 4,then what is x? Did you just contemplate "2"? Is that correct? Well, yes and no. The fact...

scientists seek new physics using ornls intense...

Soon to be deployed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is an...

calorimeter components put to the test

Tracking particles created in subatomic smashups takes precision. So before the components that get...

tabletop laser achieves energies needed for...

Bridging the gap between conventional and large-scale,x-ray synchrotron tools to capture the...

are there antimatter galaxies?

One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy is the question,where did all the antimatter move? Shortly...

new tabletop instrument tests electron mobility...

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,with facilities in Florida and original Mexico, offers...

multi satellite mission directly observes electron...

(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers working on a project that involves monitoring and...

internally coupled ears enable directional hearing...

Humans expend the time delay between the arrival of a sound wave at each ear to discern the...

new clues in the hunt for the sources of cosmic...

The sources of the tall-energy cosmic neutrinos that are detected by the IceCube Neutrino...

most precise measurement of reactor antineutrino...

Members of the International Daya Bay Collaboration,who track the production and flavor-shifting...

optical rogue waves reveal insight into real ones

(Phys.org)—Rogue waves in the middle of the ocean often appear out of nowhere and vanish just as...

how particles pack in a confined space

(Phys.org)Many biological systems involve dense packing of a large amount of fabric or particles in...

electrons and liquid helium advance understanding...

The finish of Moore's Law,the prediction that transistor density would double every two years,...

physicists split on ideas expressed in hawkings...

(Phys.org)—It has been nearly a month since,Stephen Hawking, Malcolm Perry and Andrew Strominger...

physicists posit quantum gravitys rainbow

When white light is passed through a prism,the rainbow on the other side reveals a wealthy palette...

most precise test of lorentz symmetry for the...

(Phys.org)—The laws of physics are the same no matter which direction you're facing or how...

new limit to the church turing thesis accounts for...

(Phys.org)—The question of what a computer is capable of,and what it is not, has intrigued...

fastest ever flexible diode provides 039last...

(Phys.org)—While there are hints that Samsung and LG are developing flexible phones that can...

artificial intelligence helps in the discovery of...

With the benefit of artificial intelligence, chemists from the University of Basel in Switzerland...

new measurement with deuterium nucleus confirms...

A large team made up of researchers from across the globe has repeated experiments conducted several...

researchers show how human movement through...

The alert is out and South Floridians are taking heed. With the Centers for Disease Control and...

optical magnetic field sensor can detect signals...

The human body is controlled by electrical impulses in,for example, the brain, or the heart and...

supercomputers fire lasers to shoot gamma ray beam

Ever play with a magnifying lens as a kid? Imagine a lens as astronomical as the Earth. Now focus...

milestone on the path to laser driven plasma...

An innovative accelerator project at DESY has produced its first electron beam. The experimental...

theoretical modeling of energy loss in solar cells...

When sunlight is absorbed in a solar cell,some of the energy that could be used is lost as heat....

measurement system for the performance of...

A highly sensitive measurement system for the performance of nanoscale magnetic devices,invented and...

revealing the nature of magnetic interactions in...

For nearly 60 years,scientists own been trying to determine how manganese oxide (MnO) achieves its...

calcium isotope holds the secret to the mass of...

Scientists around the world are being kept in suspense by the negligible mass of neutrinos,subatomic...

dancing on ice: experiments show how protons...

While drinking your favourite cold drink,you probably do not imagine what is going on inside each...

the quest for spin liquids

Post-doctoral researchers,Karim Essafi, Owen Benton and Ludovic Jaubert in the Theory of Quantum...

hunting for big bang neutrinos that could shed new...

gargantuan Bang neutrinos are believed to be everywhere in the universe but have never been seen....

new research introduces pause button for boiling

Gather your patience and establish the extinct "a watched pot never boils" saying to the test. The...

optical strontium atomic clock sets new stability...

Researchers from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have thoroughly analyzed the noise...

physicists offer theories to explain mysterious...

Physicists around the world were puzzled recently when an strange bump appeared in the signal of the...

proposed diamond maser could operate at room...

(Phys.org)—Before there were lasers,there were masers—devices that operate in the microwave...

new law implies thermodynamic time runs backwards...

(Phys.org)—Black holes are known to have many unique properties,such as that they allow...

physicists observe magnetic 039devil039s...

(Phys.org)—Many hiking trails feature a "satan's staircase"—a set of steps that are often...

microswimmers capped with carbon on one side can...

Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables...

hypothetical new particle could solve two major...

(Phys.org)—Although the Large Hadron Collider's enormous 13 TeV energy is more than...

new material discovery allows study of elusive...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory enjoy discovered a new type of...

new method for generating superstrong magnetic...

Researchers of MEPhI (Russia),the University of Rostock (Germany) and the University of Pisa (Italy)...

newly discovered blue whirl fire tornado burns...

Fire tornados,or 'fire whirls,' pose a powerful and essentially uncontrollable threat to...

a way to get electrons to attract each other using...

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel,with assistance...

tiny racetracks show how bacteria get organized

As the world prepares to watch the Summer Olympics' track and field events in Rio,it will come...

how heavier elements are formed in star interiors

When the renowned cosmologist Carl Sagan declared that "we are made of starstuff," he wasn't...

negative feedback loops help maintain the function...

Negative feedback is a universal control mechanism that lets a system's output throttle its...

researchers propose new method for creating...

In our computer chips,information is transported in form of electrical charge. Electrons or other...

researchers design six state magnetic memory

(Phys.org)—Computers are often described with "ones and zeros," referring to their binary nature:...

why is space three dimensional?

(Phys.org)—The question of why space is three-dimensional (3D) and not some other number of...

topology explains queer electrical current boost...

Insights from pure mathematics are lending new insights to fabric physics,which could aid in...

why celestial bodies come in different sizes

Our solar system contains one massive thing—the sun—and many smaller planets and asteroids. Now...

earthquake power laws emerge in bamboo chopsticks...

(Phys.org)—Whereas a dry twig can be broken with a single snap,breaking a bamboo chopstick...

scientists propose high efficiency wireless power...

(Phys.org)—Currently,commercial wireless power transfer is limited mainly to charging pads for...

one way sound tunnel offers novel way to control...

(Phys.org)—Scientists have designed and built an acoustic one-way tunnel that allows sound to pass...

breakthrough in moving small objects using...

Researchers of Aalto University believe made a breakthrough in controlling the motion of multiple...

cp violation or new physics?

(Phys.org)—Over the past few years,multiple neutrino experiments own detected hints for leptonic...

new x ray method allows scientists to probe...

Summer blockbuster season is upon us,which means plenty of quick-paced films with lots of action....

researchers develop formula describing ghostly...

The sun's warmth crosses millions of miles of empty space to create a summer day; a campfire...

research team discovers novel way of transferring...

A team led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has achieved a major...

light helps develop programmable materials

Light of a certain wavelength can be used to save so-called active materials into motion and control...

metamaterial separation proposed for chemical,...

The unique properties of metamaterials beget been used to cloak objects from light,and to hide them...

topological insulators: magnetism is not causing...

If topological insulators are doped with impurities that possess magnetic properties,they lose their...

scientists record first video of the 100 nm space...

(Phys.org)—There are many wintry videos showing the Leidenfrost effect,which occurs when water...

gravitational waves detected 100 years after...

For the first time,scientists enjoy observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational...

whats the best way to charge millions of electric...

(Phys.org)—approximately 350000 plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) absorb been sold in the US from...

the physics of badminton

(Phys.org)—When it comes to flying projectiles,the badminton shuttlecock or "birdie" is unusual in...

proposed synchrotron could store supersonic beams...

(Phys.org)—With a circumference of 27 km (17 miles),the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) holds the...

physicists make first observation of the pushing...

(Phys.org)—For more than 100 years,scientists beget debated the question: when light travels...

substitute teachers and replacement nurses may...

Imagine a nurse who gets the flu while working at a hospital. He goes domestic to recover—and an...

physicists prepare to detect gravitational waves...

(Phys.org)—final February,scientists made the groundbreaking discovery of gravitational waves...

study suggests humans can detect even the smallest...

Just how dark does it hold to be before our eyes stop working? Research by a team from Rockefeller...

hawking team updates soft hair theory to help...

(Phys.org)—Stephen Hawking,along with Malcolm Perry and Andrew Strominger has updated his ideas...

new technique doubles resolution of near field...

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from the University of Exeter,the University of...

researchers prepare to build an ultrasensitive eye...

Prototyping of a new,ultrasensitive "eye" for gloomy matter is making rapid progress at the...

data from x ray free electron laser experiments...

Researchers from the University of Washington are using supercomputers at Department of...

isotope program provides target material for the...

Two isotopes of a modern element with atomic number Z=117 were created by an international...

deep space experiment could measure the...

(Phys.org)—Scientists maintain proposed the first experiment that could measure the value of...

computer simulations show it might be possible to...

(Phys.org)A trio of researchers with The University of Texas has found a possible way to create...

researchers investigate chladni patterns in a...

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Universit Grenoble Alpes in France has discovered that there...

model simulates chemotaxis with clusters of...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with the University of California and Rice University has...

when liquids get up close and personal with...

Every cook knows that dissolving powder into a liquid,such as semolina in milk or polenta in water,...

could 80 year old ether experiments have detected...

(Phys.org)—In a modern study,scientists have proposed that tiny residual effects measured by...

new theory of secondary inflation expands options...

Standard cosmology—that is,the colossal Bang Theory with its early period of exponential growth...

pure quantum mechanical mixture of electrons and...

In 2013,MIT physicists showed for the first time that shining powerful mid-infrared laser light on...

millennium physicist ready to take helm at nuclear...

Fabiola Gianotti,who this week takes the helm at CERN, domestic to world's largest particle...

magnetic polaron imaged for the first time

Researchers at Aalto University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory contain demonstrated that...

new instrument improves studies of explosions,...

Testing explosions is epic science. The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been...

the science of diffusion and the spread of public...

Most of us think of diffusion in the context of its scientific definition as the process whereby...

researchers demonstrate acoustic levitation of a...

When placed in an acoustic field,small objects experience a net force that can be used to levitate...

redefining the kilogram at npl

Researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) are working with scientists across the globe...

x ray studies could help make ligo gravitational...

Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator...

virus particles in a doughnut shaped chamber form...

Large biomolecules in a small space spontaneously form symmetrical patterns. Researchers from FOM...

study on a novel fault diagnosis method of rolling...

It is important to diagnose the faults of rolling bearings,because they may lead to the failure of...

possibility of new particle discovery at lhc...

The physics community is apparently starting to lose its buzz over the possibility of the discovery...

doubled sensitivity could allow gravitational wave...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Australian National University...

a plasma tube to bring particles up to speed at...

A team led by scientists from the University of California,Los Angeles and the Department of...

spinning electrons yield positrons for research

Researchers expend accelerators to coax the electron into performing a wide range of tricks to...

numerical simulations shed new light on early...

Innovative multidisciplinary research in nuclear and particle physics and cosmology has led to the...

scientists divide magnetic vortices into...

In manganese monosilicide (MnSi),microscopic magnetic vortices— skyrmions— may behave as...

important step in understanding of light...

A team of researchers from the University of Twente and from Philips in the Netherlands has...

researchers find the tipping point between...

Honeybees gain been dying in record numbers,threatening the continued production of nutritious foods...

uk science leads the way in nuclear research

The UK's synchrotron science facility,Diamond Light Source, is a hub for renewable energy and...

x ray laser turns crystal imperfections into...

Often the most difficult step in taking atomic-resolution images of biological molecules is getting...

3 d printing confirms physical model of brain...

The distinctive troughs and crests of the human brain are not present in most animals; highly folded...

researchers outline physics of metal 3 d printing

While the most common method of metal 3D printing is growing exponentially,moving forward from...

dark matter might cause fundamental constants to...

(Phys.org)—The fundamental constants of nature—such as the speed of light,Planck's fixed,...

dark matter hiding in stars may cause observable...

(Phys.org)—Dark matter has never been seen directly, but scientists know that something massive is...

cosmic dust demystified

The solar system is a dusty environment,with trillions of cosmic dust particles left behind by...

method to entangle thousands of atoms could lead...

Physicists possess proposed a method for entangling hundreds of atoms,and then entangling a dozen or...

hexagonal boron nitride semiconductors enable cost...

One of the most critical issues the United States faces nowadays is preventing terrorists from...

fabrication method for swimming microrobots with...

When scaling down robots to the micrometer scale for tiny tasks such as incising tissue and...

history minute that proved baseballs really do...

(Phys.org)—The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a "History Minute"...

making astrophysical simulations more accurate

Research work at UiS (Universitetet i Stavanger - The University of Stavanger) and NTNU (Norges...

generating unclonable patterns to fight...

In a multinational collaboration,researchers from the Universities of Luxembourg, Ljubljana and...

new mathematics accurately captures liquids and...

Gas bubbles in a glass of champagne,lean films rupturing into tiny liquid droplets, blood flowing...

building compact particle accelerators: bunching...

In the world of particle accelerators,laser wakefield devices are the small, but mighty upstarts....

getting a better measure of spin with diamond

Diamonds are one of the most coveted gemstones. But while some may want the perfect diamond for its...

new technique could improve detection of concealed...

Researchers have demonstrated proof of concept for a novel low-energy nuclear reaction imaging...

how to build a time machine

Every now and again,we all indulge in dreams approximately travelling in time. Wouldn't it be...

improved nuclear magnetic resonance technique...

(Phys.org)—An effort by a combined team of researchers from Harvard and Ulm Universities has led...

musical melodies obey same laws as foraging...

(Phys.org)—Most people mediate of music as more of an art than a science. Although sound is a...

physicists find ways to increase antihydrogen...

(Phys.org)—There are many experiments that physicists would like to perform on antimatter,from...

new combination of materials could speeds up...

Researchers at Uppsala University beget discovered a new combination of materials that paves the way...

a more in depth way to predict gunshot wound blood...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers from the University of Illinois and Iowa State University...

hitomi mission charts hot winds of a galaxy...

Measurements of unprecedented detail returned by Japan's Hitomi satellite have allowed...

spacecraft juno nears planet orbit, but harvard...

In less than a week,the spacecraft Juno will arrive at Jupiter, the culmination of a five-year, and...

superconducting magnet powers up after cross...

A team of physicists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National...

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