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New Spin Waves Created in Nanometer Scale

For the first time, physicists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have successfully managed to use powerful alternating magnetic fields to produce a new kind of spin wave that was formerly only theoretically projected.

16 Sep 2022

New Quantum Algorithm Improves Ability to Calculate the Potential Energy Surface in Reacting Molecules

A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have devised a new quantum algorithm to compute the lowest energies of molecules at specific configurations during chemical reactions, including when their chemical bonds are broken.

16 Sep 2022

Scientists Use Purified Liquid Xenon to Detect Dark Matter

Sitting a mile below ground in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota is a gigantic cylinder holding 10 tons of purified liquid xenon closely watched by more than 250 scientists around the world.

16 Sep 2022

Rensselaer Researcher Receives $285,000 Grant to Prove Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

It is believed to be exceedingly rare and slow, but if it actually exists, it would redefine the laws of physics: it's called neutrinoless double beta decay (NDBD).

15 Sep 2022

An Analysis on How High-Energy Particles are Raised in Complex Situations

Astronauts’ lives are at risk and satellite electronics are destroyed when high-energy particles bombard the earth and objects outside the earth’s atmosphere at unpredictable periods.

14 Sep 2022

A Unique Computer Program with the Ability to Simulate Cosmic Rays

A computer program that was created by a global research team can simulate the movement of cosmic rays through space. The goal is to help the researchers unravel the riddle surrounding the origins of cosmic rays.

14 Sep 2022

The “Odd” Nature of Dark Matter Halos of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies

Physicists at UC Riverside (UCR) and UC Irvine (UCI) co-led a study in which they discovered that dark matter halos of ultra-diffuse galaxies are very strange, raising queries concerning the researchers’ comprehension of the formation of the galaxy and the universe’s structure.

13 Sep 2022

The Unique Behavior of Sound via Solids Discovered

Everything need not be seen to be believed; some things are more easily heard, for instance, a train nearing a station.

13 Sep 2022

Ultrathin Device Helps Control a Strange but Useful Phenomenon of Quantum Mechanics

An ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing and encryption technologies remarkably smaller and more powerful by helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, according to new research recently published in the journal Science.

13 Sep 2022