Astronomers have discovered a massive white dwarf, 1.14 times the mass of our Sun, which they propose is the result of a star merger between two smaller white dwarfs.
By Robert Lea
26 Mar 2020
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques are a class of imaging techniques that rely on the interaction between an atomically sharp tip and a surface to identify and characterize the topology of the sample.
By Liam Critchley
13 Mar 2020
An international team of physicists from the Universities of Illinois in the United States, Pavia, Italy, and Toronto, Canada has recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters that demonstrates a new method for generating quantum entanglement in an optical fiber.
By Ben Pilkington
12 Mar 2020
As renewable energy continues to be a priority, the ability to provide more supercapacitors to meet these demands will subsequently rise. To this end, there has been an increased interest in exploiting quantum mechanical effects to improve the performance of energy storage systems.
By John Allen
12 Mar 2020
A massive cavity found in a distant galactic cluster was punched out by the most powerful explosion ever recorded, reveals new research by astronomers.
By Robert Lea
10 Mar 2020
Without the counter-intuitive nature of quantum tunneling and the randomness at its heart, the stars themselves could not shine and life would not exist.
By Robert Lea
28 Feb 2020
Infrared (IR) microscopy, or IR microspectroscopy, combines techniques of microscopy with processes derived from spectroscopy. Microscopy is the magnification of specimens for observation, and spectroscopy is the study of interactions between matter and radiated energy, usually in the form of light.
By Ben Pilkington
24 Feb 2020
Viscosity provides information on how thick a liquid is and how easily it flows; it is a measure of the fluid’s internal flow resistance. It is often defined as a measure of a fluid’s resistance to deforming at a given rate and is based on the concept of thickness. So, for example, syrup has a highe
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
24 Feb 2020
Particles that are so small they are invisible to the naked eye behave very differently to those that we can see.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
5 Feb 2020
Light can act as both a wave and a particle, and this fact is put to good use in solar power technologies.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
5 Feb 2020