New research could help solve a major challenge in the deployment of certain COVID-19 vaccines worldwide -- the need for the vaccines to be kept at below-freezing temperatures during transport and storage. Researchers demonstrate a new, inexpensiv...
Apr 14, 2021
Tesla sales in China more than doubled in 2020, to nearly $6.6 billion, accounting for 21 percent of the company’s booming worldwide total. But Tesla no longer makes China’s most popular electric car: Meet the tiny Wuling Hong Guang Mini EV, whos...
Apr 14, 2021
A powerful new idea about how the laws of physics work could bring breakthroughs on everything from quantum gravity to consciousness, says researcher Chiara Marletto
Apr 14, 2021
Thin films of iron-based superconductors offer a simpler setting for elusive quasiparticles The post Majorana-based quantum computation gets a handy new platform appeared first on Physics World.
Apr 14, 2021
Graphene excels at removing contaminants from water, but it's not yet a commercially viable use of the wonder material.
Apr 14, 2021
Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these 'phase transitions' aren't smooth, but their discontinuous nature is smoothed out at high pressure. An international team of physicists has now disco...
Apr 14, 2021
A new dual bug killer is one of the thinnest antimicrobial coatings to date. The coating works by tearing bacteria and fungal cells apart, offering a smart solution to the twin global health threats of drug-resistant bacterial and fungal infections.
Apr 14, 2021
Light can be used to operate quantum information processing systems, e.g. quantum computers, quickly and efficiently. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Chimie ParisTech/CNRS have now significantly advanced the development...
Apr 14, 2021
Dark matter may make up the vast majority of the matter in the universe, but it’s strangely shy about making its presence known. Now, physicists have designed a new test to search for signs of two candidate particles, using the quirky world of qua...
Apr 14, 2021
Nanothin antimicrobial coating could prevent and treat potentially deadly infections. Researchers have developed a new superbug-destroying coating that could be used on wound dressings and... The post Superbug Killer: New Nanotech Destroys Bacter...
Apr 14, 2021
