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Magnetization reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

In the era of information technology revolution, electronics demand rapid evolution facilitated by greater efforts from materials researchers to pave the way fo...

Step right up for bigger 2D sheets

Mar 08, 2019 (SPX)

Atom-sized steps in a substrate provide the means for 2D crystals growing in a chemical vapor furnace to come together in perfect rank. Scientists have recently...

French armed forces tap Thales for coastal surveillance radars

Mar 08, 2019 (UPI)

The French-headquartered company announced in a news release Thursday it will manufacture two Coast Watcher 100 radars, which it says offer optimal protection f...

It's all in the twist: Physicists stack 2D materials at angles to trap particles

Mar 08, 2019 (SPX)

In a paper published Feb. 25 in the journal Nature, a team of physicists from the University of Washington, the University of Hong Kong, the Oak Ridge National ...

Matrix could ensure vital copper supplies

Mar 07, 2019 (SPX)

University of Queensland geologist Professor Rick Valenta said copper would be crucial in a renewable-powered future, but global supplies were far from guarante...

Transforming magnetic storage might stem from the vision of quantum

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers report a tabletop method to characterize such a faster magnetic storage using high-harmonic generation of laser light in iron thin films, which...

Finding keyholes in metals 3D printing

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

New research published in Science, led by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Argonne National Laboratory, has identified how and when these gas poc...

Electrically-heated silicate glass appears to defy Joule's first law

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery that under certain conditions electrically-heated silicate glass defies a long-accepted law of physics known as Joule's first law should be of int...

Unique Weyl semimetal delivers largest intrinsic conversion of light to electricity

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery is based on a unique aspect of the material where electrons can be separated by their chirality, or handedness - similar to DNA. The findings may ...

Nanotechnology and sunlight clear the way for better visibility

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a new transparent material coating that greatly reduces this effect. Just a few nanometres thick, their durable coa...

New shapes of laser beam 'sneak' through opaque media

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery from scientists at Yale University and the Missouri University of Science and Technology has potential applications for deep-tissue imaging and op...

The random anti-laser

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

At TU Wien (Vienna), a method has now been developed to make use of this effect, even in very complicated systems in which light waves are randomly scattered in...

Good news for future tech: Exotic 'topological' materials are surprisingly common

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

These materials have unexpected and strange properties that have shifted scientists' understanding of how electrons behave. Researchers hope these substances co...

Scientists produce colorless reservoir of platinum metal-like single atoms in liquid

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Delaware have reported a way to produce ...

Physicists build random anti-laser

Mar 04, 2019 (UPI)

Lasers turns energy into a specific light frequency. The device developed by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology does the opposite, absorbing a s...

New research opens door to more efficient chemical processes across spectrum of industries

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

The findings, by a collaboration that included scientists from the University of Delaware, were published in Nature Catalysis. A catalyst increases the rate of ...

JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

As featured on the cover of the Feb. 22 issue of Science, the team produced a gas of potassium-rubidium (KRb) molecules at temperatures as low as 50 nanokelvin ...

A quantum magnet with a topological twist

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

Now, an international team led by researchers at Princeton University has observed that some of the electrons in these magnets behave collectively, like an almo...

UCF researchers develop first sypersymmetric laser array

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

Using the principle of supersymmetry, they have developed the first supersymmetric laser array. Their findings were published recently in the journal Science. S...

Laser drill leads to world record in plasma acceleration

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

The team led by Wim Leemans, then head of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center and now Accelerator Director at DESY, presents the novel concept in ...