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New Spin Wave Type Could Enable Long-Distance, Multiplex Twist-Based Signal Encoding and Transmission

The ever-growing demand for energy and the fundamental limits on miniaturization have hindered further progresses in IT technologies. Another challenge is energy dissipation, which mostly goes into warming up the environment.

14 May 2019

Researchers Develop Flexible Electric-Double-Layer Transistor to Control Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Materials

Cuprate high-temperature superconductors are examples of strongly correlated materials, in which superconductivity can be regulated either by altering the kinetic energy, or transfer energy, of electrons or by altering the number of electrons in the system.

13 May 2019

International Collaboration Achieves Strong Interactions in Isolated Quantum Liquids of Excitons

For the first time, direction-dependent and strong interactions in quantum liquids of excitons have been realized by an international collaboration including European, Israeli, and US researchers. These interactions are in contrast with the spatial isotropy of the link between charged particles.

13 May 2019

Mapping Aluminum Monoxide Around Distant Star Offers Important Details About Evolution of Solar System

Aluminum monoxide (AlO) has been mapped by astronomers in a cloud surrounding a faraway young star—Origin Source I. The discovery elucidates certain vital details about the evolution of the solar system, and ultimately the humankind.

13 May 2019

Explosions of Universe’s First Stars Spewed Powerful Jets

Several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the very first stars flared into the universe as massively bright accumulations of hydrogen and helium gas. Within the cores of these first stars, extreme, thermonuclear reactions forged the first heavier elements, including carbon, iron, and zinc.

13 May 2019

New Study Improves Insights into the Formation of Large Super-Earth Planets with Small Orbits

Planetary systems considerably different from our solar system are distributed throughout the galaxy. The planet closest to the Sun in the solar system—Mercury, with an orbit of 88 days—is also the smallest.

10 May 2019

Gravitational Waves Leave Behind Memories that Could Help Detect Waves that Pass Through the Universe

Observed first in 2016, gravitational waves provide new insights about the universe, with the ability to describe everything from the time soon after the Big Bang to latest events in galaxy centers.

10 May 2019

Study Finds First Generation of the Universe’s Stars Burst and Ejected Heavy Elements into Neighboring Galaxies

The very first stars evolved into the universe as enormously bright aggregations of helium and hydrogen gas several hundred million years following the Big Bang. Inside the cores of these first stars, extreme thermonuclear reactions produced the first heavier elements, such as iron, carbon, and zinc.

9 May 2019

Analysis of Gaia Satellite Data Reveals Severe Star Formation Burst in Milky Way in the Past

A group headed by scientists from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB, UB-IEEC) and the Besançon Astronomical Observatory analyzed data from the Gaia satellite and has discovered that an intense star formation burst took place in the Milky Way nearly two and three thousand million years ago.

9 May 2019

Magnetic Circuits Regulated by Energy-Efficient Switch that Does Not Require Electric Currents

Logic and memory devices, such as the hard drives in computers, currently apply nanomagnetic mechanisms to store and control information.

9 May 2019

Researchers Report Important Breakthrough in Understanding the Behavior of Magnetic Skyrmions

Magnetic skyrmions are minute entities found in magnetic materials. These entities include localized twists in the direction of magnetization of the medium.

8 May 2019

Event Horizon Imager for Taking Sharper Images of Black Holes

More recently, astronomers managed to capture the first-ever image of a black hole, and the next challenge that they now face is to capture even sharper images to enable Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity to be tested.

7 May 2019

Study Shows Tailored Graphene Structures Enable Single Photons to Interact with Each Other

A new material made up of a single sheet of carbon atoms could pave the way for innovative designs for optical quantum computers.

7 May 2019

Discrete Energy Levels Without Confinement – A New Quantum Trick

Nanostructures can be designed such a way that the quantum confinement allows only certain electron energy levels. Researchers from IMDEA Nanociencia, UAM and ICMM-CSIC have for the first time observed a discrete pattern of electron energies in an unconfined system, which could lead to new ways of modifying the surface properties of materials.

6 May 2019

LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-ups

On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered gravitational waves from what appears likely to be a crash between two neutron stars—the dense remnants of massive stars that previously exploded.

6 May 2019

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New Spin Wave Type Could Enable Long-Distance, Multiplex Twist-Based Signal Encoding and Transmission

Researchers Develop Flexible Electric-Double-Layer Transistor to Control Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Materials

International Collaboration Achieves Strong Interactions in Isolated Quantum Liquids of Excitons

Mapping Aluminum Monoxide Around Distant Star Offers Important Details About Evolution of Solar System

Explosions of Universe’s First Stars Spewed Powerful Jets

New Study Improves Insights into the Formation of Large Super-Earth Planets with Small Orbits

Gravitational Waves Leave Behind Memories that Could Help Detect Waves that Pass Through the Universe

Study Finds First Generation of the Universe’s Stars Burst and Ejected Heavy Elements into Neighboring Galaxies

Analysis of Gaia Satellite Data Reveals Severe Star Formation Burst in Milky Way in the Past

Magnetic Circuits Regulated by Energy-Efficient Switch that Does Not Require Electric Currents

Researchers Report Important Breakthrough in Understanding the Behavior of Magnetic Skyrmions

Event Horizon Imager for Taking Sharper Images of Black Holes

Study Shows Tailored Graphene Structures Enable Single Photons to Interact with Each Other

Discrete Energy Levels Without Confinement – A New Quantum Trick

LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-ups

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