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To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
Here’s a new chapter in the story of the miniaturisation of machines: researchers in a laboratory in Singapore have shown that a single atom can function as either an engine or a fridge. Such a device could be engineered into future computers…
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Gravitational waves could prove the existence of the quark-gluon plasma
Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the universe. If our Sun, with its radius of 700,000 kilometres were a neutron star, its mass would be condensed into an almost perfect sphere with a radius of around 12 kilometres.
When two neutron…
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New findings suggest laws of nature not as constant as previously thought
Those looking forward to a day when science’s Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue to find hints that one of the cosmological constants is not so constant…
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New high-energy-density physics research provides insights about the universe
Atoms and molecules behave very differently at extreme temperatures and pressures. Although such extreme matter doesn’t exist naturally on the earth, it exists in abundance in the universe, especially in the deep interiors of planets and…
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New discovery helps close the gap towards optically-controlled quantum computation
Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal.
The mechanism establishes a new way to control the topological…
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A cheap organic steam generator to purify water
It has been estimated that in 2040 a quarter of the world’s children will live in regions where clean and drinkable water is lacking.
The desalination of seawater and the purification of wastewater are two possible methods to alleviate this, and…
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In search of the Z boson
At the Japanese High-energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK, in Tsukuba, about 50 kilometers north of Tokyo, the Belle II experiment has been in operation for about one year now.
An international team of researchers also from Karlsruhe…
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an astronaut’s kit for future space exploration?
One of the major challenges related to space exploration is the development of production technologies capable of exploiting the few resources available in extra-terrestrial environment.
Laser 3D printing of lunar dust may be the answer to such…
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Where did the antimatter go? Neutrinos shed promising new light
We live in a world of matter – because matter overtook antimatter, though they were both created in equal amounts by the Big Bang when our universe began.
As featured on the cover of Nature on 16 April 2020, neutrinos and the associated…
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