A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a way to manipulate water waves, allowing them to trap and precisely move floating objects — almost as if an invisible force…
Category: 4. Physics
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Elementary-particle detectors, 3D printed | ScienceDaily
In 2024, the T2K Collaboration started to collect new neutrino data following several upgrades to the experiment that included new types of detectors. One of these, called SuperFGD, has a mass of about 2 tons of sensitive volume and is made of…
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Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium.
Organometallic…
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Cosmic-Ray Showers Play Pivotal Role in Triggering Lightning Flashes
How lightning is started in thunderstorms is poorly known. With a newly-developed 3D mapping and polarization system, physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory observed that some lightning flashes were not only started with the positive…
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Water Droplets Are Generating Electricity in a Way We Never Knew
Scientists have discovered that water moving over surfaces generates significantly more electrical charge than previously believed, particularly when it sticks and then slips past tiny obstacles. This newfound knowledge could revolutionize…
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Synchrotron Radiation Could Explain Black Hole’s Flaring
• Physics 18, 55
JWST observations reveal two distinct types of flares from the Milky Way’s black hole, suggesting that they originate from two different electron-acceleration mechanisms within the supermassive black…
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The Effectiveness of Carbon-Ion Cancer Therapy
• Physics 18, s32
Experiments have shown that heavy-ion irradiation of biomolecules in aqueous environments efficiently triggers DNA-destroying cascades.
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Physicists Create Quantum Tornadoes in Momentum Space
Physicists have long known that electrons can form vortices in quantum materials. What’s new is the proof that these tiny particles create tornado-like structures in momentum space.
In a quantum material called tantalum arsenide (TaAs),…
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Evidence of a new phenomenon: Quantum tornadoes in momentum space
A team of researchers from Würzburg has for the first time experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado. Electrons form vortices in the momentum space of the quantum semi-metal tantalum arsenide.
Scientists have long known that electrons can…
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X-ray snapshot: How light bends an active substance
Many biologically important molecules change shape when stimulated by UV radiation. Although this property can also be found in some drugs, it is not yet well understood. Using an innovative technique, an international team involving researchers…
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