/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Lasers that are fabricated directly onto silicon photonic chips offer several advantages over external laser sources, such as greater scalability. Furthermore, photonic chips with these "monolithically" integrated lasers can be commercially viable if they can be manufactured in standard semiconductor foundries. /news/2025-07-efficient-quantum-dot-lasers-silicon.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:20:04 EDT news672050613 Researchers have solved a mystery that has confounded scientists for 80 years: the crystal structure of the tetra-n-butylammonium bromide (TBAB) hydrate TBAB·26H2O. This substance belongs to a class of crystalline materials called semiclathrate hydrates, which form from the combination of ions and water. /news/2025-07-year-mystery-crystal-bromide-hydrate.html Analytical Chemistry Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:10:07 EDT news672051198 A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons, mesons are composed of quarks bound together by the strong nuclear force. But these short-lived particles have different characteristics that can reveal new information about the atomic nucleus and how the universe works. /news/2025-07-standard-candle-particle-enables-hybrid.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:50:58 EDT news672047444 A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned from a layer thinner than a human hair. /news/2025-07-asymmetric-metasurface-precise-photon-entanglement.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:46:38 EDT news672047194 In the race to develop faster and more flexible wireless communication technologies, researchers are turning to an unexpected source: the same organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) found in smartphone screens and TVs. /news/2025-07-oleds-faster-longer-distance-wireless.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:50:02 EDT news672043263 The sPHENIX particle detector, the newest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has released its first physics results: precision measurements of the number and energy density of thousands of particles streaming from collisions of near-light-speed gold ions. /news/2025-07-physics-results-sphenix-particle-detector.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:38:15 EDT news672043087 Researchers are creating new moiré materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology. DNA moiré superlattices form when two periodic DNA lattices are overlaid with a slight rotational twist or positional offset. This creates a new, larger interference pattern with completely different physical properties. /news/2025-07-programmable-dna-moir-superlattices-material.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:52:25 EDT news671971940 The Graduate School of Information Science (GSIS) at Tohoku University, together with the Â鶹ÒùÔºics and Informatics (PHI) Lab at NTT Research, Inc., have jointly published a paper in the journal Quantum Science and Technology. The study involved studying a combinatorial clustering problem, a representative task in unsupervised machine learning. /news/2025-07-quantum-coherent-ising-machines.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:41:18 EDT news671960369 A new method turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail at the atomic level. The results of this research are now published in Nature. /news/2025-07-nobel-prize-idea-super-resolution.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:30:12 EDT news671890832 A Rutgers-led team of scientists has developed an eco-friendly, very stable, ultra-bright material and used it to generate deep-blue light (emission at ~450 nm) in a light-emitting diode (LED), an energy-efficient device at the heart of all major lighting systems. /news/2025-07-ultra-bright-deep-blue-eco.html Materials Science Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:00:35 EDT news671865478 The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material design and selection. To address this, a research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has uncovered an innovative strategy: by simply twisting the layers of 2D materials, they can enhance toughness without compromising material's strength. /news/2025-07-2d-materials-material-strength-toughness.html Nanomaterials Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:00:01 EDT news671801132 You may not have realized it yet, but the United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. /news/2025-07-year-journey-quantum-science-technology.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:30:06 EDT news671800512 In October of 1957, the USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth. Today, we're combining Earth observation with image processing in the search for mineral resources. /news/2025-07-aeronet-quality-satellite-mineral-exploration.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:20:05 EDT news671800137 Researchers at the Jülich Research Center and the Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics (IHP) have developed a material that has never existed before: a stable alloy of carbon, silicon, germanium, and tin. The new compound, abbreviated as CSiGeSn, opens up exciting possibilities for applications at the interface of electronics, photonics, and quantum technology. /news/2025-07-element-semiconductor-alloy-advances-chip.html Materials Science Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:03:12 EDT news671799788 Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated a technique to dramatically narrow the linewidth of a laser beam by a factor of over ten thousand—a discovery that could revolutionize quantum computing, atomic clocks and gravitational wave detection. /news/2025-07-technique-raman-laser-linewidth-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:15:06 EDT news671728357 Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources away from the one you care about. In the scientific community, one of the most devastating ways you can do that is by making the other methods appear to be too expensive to be feasible, or, better yet, prove they wouldn't work at all due to some fundamental limitation. That is what a recent paper by Dr. Slava Turyshev, the world's most prominent proponent of a solar gravitational lens (SGL) telescope mission, does. /news/2025-07-solar-gravitational-lens-telescope-feasible.html Astronomy Planetary Sciences Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:20:49 EDT news671721644 Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed new technology for uranium enrichment measurement and trace element detection, vital for nuclear nonproliferation and supporting the development and operation of next-generation nuclear reactors. /news/2025-07-key-advances.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:36:37 EDT news671715393 The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and telecommunications—are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. /news/2025-07-spacecraft-equipped-solar-earlier-space.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:33:24 EDT news671711597 Photo-induced force microscopy began as a concept in the mind of Kumar Wickramasinghe when he was employed by IBM in the early years of the new millennium. After he came to the University of California, Irvine in 2006, the concept evolved into an invention that would revolutionize research by enabling scientists to study the fundamental characteristics of matter at nanoscale resolution. /news/2025-07-revolutionizing-photo-microscopy-globe-celebrated.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:10:01 EDT news671703676 Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass prevents galaxies from falling apart. But we don't know what it is. /news/2025-07-dark-dwarfs-center-milky.html Astronomy Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:50:01 EDT news671284163 In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a photopumped lasing from a buried dielectric photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser emitting at room temperature and an eye-safe wavelength. Their findings, published in IEEE Photonics Journal, improve upon current laser design and open new avenues for defense applications. /news/2025-07-room-temperature-lasing-photonic-crystal.html Optics & Photonics Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:21:58 EDT news671520111 The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometers away, using two optical ground stations developed for this purpose in Greece. /news/2025-07-europe-deep-space-optical-communication.html Space Exploration Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:03 EDT news671448769 The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon. /news/2025-07-higgs-boson-properties-decay-pattern.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:30:39 EDT news671448634 Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. 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As thin as a strand of hair, this technology offers unrivaled energy efficiency. /news/2025-07-significantly-optical-chip.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:30:03 EDT news671444755 A multinational research team, including engineers from the University of Cambridge and Zhejiang University, has developed a breakthrough in miniaturized spectrometer technology that could dramatically expand the accessibility and functionality of spectral imaging in everyday devices. /news/2025-07-plastic-based-spectrometers-compact-solution.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:15:51 EDT news671444135 Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre world in which an object can act like both waves and particles, and behave differently depending on whether it is being watched. /news/2025-07-quantum-dual-nature-formula-ness.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:20:05 EDT news671433149 Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings physicists use to represent particle interactions. The new method has already enabled the researchers to solve a longstanding problem in the materials science and physics worlds known as the polaron problem, giving scientists and engineers a way to predict how electrons will flow in certain materials, both conventional and quantum. /news/2025-07-adding-feynman-diagrams-real-materials.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:32:55 EDT news671373170 Quantum mechanics describes the unconventional properties of subatomic particles, like their ability to exist in a superposition of multiple states, as popularized by the Schrödinger's cat analogy, and ability to slip through barriers, a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling. /news/2025-07-tunneling-electrons-alternative-quantum-mechanics.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:10:04 EDT news671364400 Over the past few years, researchers have developed various quantum technologies, alternatives to classical devices that operate by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics. These technologies have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts in specific settings or scenarios. /news/2025-07-quantum-battery-theoretical-limit-genuine.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:50:01 EDT news671278269 With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports. /news/2025-07-room-temperature-maser-technology.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:10:04 EDT news671288763