The key to establishing ever more powerful quantum computers, such as Google’s Sycamore, lies in understanding entanglement. New research shows that this phenomenon, once described as ‘spooky action at a distance’ by Einstein, is not a factor of contact, but of identity.
By Robert Lea
15 Jun 2020
Researchers from Brazil’s Nuclear Engineering Institute recently became the first to attempt to apply graphene quantum dots (GQDs) to the treatment of low-level liquid radioactive waste.
By Andrew Messios
3 Jun 2020
Sterile neutrinos are currently the leading candidate for dark matter. However, tell-tale signatures of their decay have so far failed to be detected.
By Robert Lea
26 May 2020
There is a growing interest in the use of amorphous materials in a range of advanced industrial and scientific applications. This article discusses their short range order using electron diffraction.
By Cvetelin Vasilev
19 May 2020
Quantum physics and transmission electron microscopy allow investigation of materials much smaller than optical microscopes.
Atomic absorption is the process by which particles of matter (atoms) absorb energy. With 20th century advances in the field of physics, this process can be understood according to the peculiar laws of quantum mechanics.
By Ben Pilkington, MSt.
6 May 2020
The use of nanoparticles represents a significant breakthrough in medicine due to their ability to deliver drugs, light, and heat to specifically targeted cells. For this medical revolution to proceed, researchers need an efficient way to introduce nanoparticles?—particles ?smaller than 100 nanometers in diameter?—?into a patient’s system.
By Robert Lea
30 Apr 2020
Astronomers have discovered that WASP-76b, an exoplanet 390 light years from our own solar system, is a world dominated by an extreme dichotomy.
By Robert Lea
27 Mar 2020
The discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2–18b made it an ideal object of study for scientists seeking to understand the planets that lie within the ‘habitable zone’ of other star systems.
By Robert Lea
27 Mar 2020
The universe is expanding, and it is doing so at an accelerating rate. However, lingering questions about universal expansion do remain. Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva, Lucas Lombriser, has put forward an extraordinary suggestion.
By Robert Lea
26 Mar 2020