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New Nanomaterial Resists Projectile Impact Better Than Kevlar

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Thinner than a human hair, new material can absorb impacts from microparticles traveling at supersonic speeds. Engineers at Caltech, MIT, and ETH Zürich have developed... The post New Nanomaterial Resists Projectile Impact Better Than Kevlar appe...

Aug 28, 2021

Nanoscale systems for generating various forms of light: Quantum researchers rearrange photon distribution to create different light sources

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In new findings published in Nature Communications, researchers from Louisiana State University and four collaborating universities have introduced a discovery that changes a paradigm in quantum plasmonics by demonstrating the potential of metalli...

Aug 27, 2021

Sony's head of AI research wants to build robots that can win a Nobel Prize

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AI and Machine Learning systems have proven a boon to scientific research in a variety of academic fields in recent years. They’ve assisted scientists in identifying genomic markers ripe for cutting-edge treatments, accelerating the discovery of p...

Aug 27, 2021

Nanoscale systems for generating various forms of light

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For decades, scholars have believed that the quantum statistical properties of bosons are preserved in plasmonic systems, and therefore will not create different form of light.

Aug 27, 2021

Scientists discover a new type of infrared polaritons at the surface of bulk crystals: The discovery could advance control of infrared nanolight used in a variety of technologies

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An international team has reported the observation of ghost polaritons, which are a new form of surface waves carrying nanoscale light strongly coupled with material oscillations and featuring highly collimated propagation properties.

Aug 27, 2021

A new type of infrared polaritons at the surface of bulk crystals

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An international team has reported in Nature the first observation of ghost polaritons, which are a new form of surface waves carrying nanoscale light strongly coupled with material oscillations and featuring highly collimated propagation properti...

Aug 27, 2021

This Exotic Particle Had an Out-of-Body Experience – These Surprised Scientists Took a Picture of It

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An unexpected finding by scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could advance quantum computers and high-temperature superconductors. Scientists have taken the clearest picture yet... The post This Exotic Particle Had an Out-of-Body Experienc...

Aug 27, 2021

Breakthrough in sizing nanoparticles using fluid-filled tubes: Simple mechanical tube key to measuring mass and size of nano-particles simultaneously

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Scientists have discovered that the mass and size of nano-particles can be simultaneously measured by passing the nanoparticles, in their native solution, through an inexpensive and simple mechanical tube.

Aug 27, 2021

It's Elementary: Visualizing Molecular Motion of Substituted 9-Phosphaanthracene

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Radical reactivity of aromatic molecules 9-phosphaanthracenes is difficult to analyze using conventional techniques due to their short lifetimes. To overcome this analytical hurdle, a team of scientists from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tok...

Aug 27, 2021

Simulations of polymers? A quantum puzzle

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Using computers to study polymers has always been a major challenge for scientific computation, especially for long and densely packed biomolecules, like DNA. New perspectives are now opening up through quantum computing. Scientists have now recas...

Aug 27, 2021

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