/ 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 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 A study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in Italy has synthesized fullerenes and hollow spherical graphene particles using only natural graphite, ethanol, water, and sodium hydroxide under ambient conditions. Published in the journal Diamond and Related Materials, the research showed the feasibility of producing structures that previously required extremely high temperatures using an electrochemical route. /news/2025-07-electrochemical-route-synthesis-giant-fullerenes.html Materials Science Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:08:37 EDT news671976512 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 Oregon State University pigment researchers are using a rare mineral discovered in Norway more than a century ago as a road map for creating new yellows, oranges and reds that are vibrant, durable, non-toxic and inexpensive. /news/2025-07-pigment-vivid-yellows-oranges-reds.html Materials Science Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:40:05 EDT news671960181 At the forefront of discovery, where cutting-edge scientific questions are tackled, we often don't have much data. Conversely, successful machine learning (ML) tends to rely on large, high-quality data sets for training. So how can researchers harness AI effectively to support their investigations? /news/2025-07-human-ai-teamwork-uncovers-hidden.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:10:24 EDT news671947355 A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals in common metals like copper, gold, and aluminum—using nothing more than light and a clever technique. Their research, recently published in Nature Communications, could pave the way for advances in everything from smartphones to quantum computing. /news/2025-07-invisible-hidden-magnetic-clues-everyday.html Condensed Matter Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:00:01 EDT news671897093 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 Is it wizardry? Â鶹ÒùÔºicists at the University of Konstanz have succeeded in changing the properties of a material in a non-thermal way with the help of light and magnons. The new process is not only promising for information technology, but possibly for quantum research, too—at room temperature. /news/2025-07-magic-magnons-material-properties-thermally.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:38:00 EDT news671881074 Rabi-like splitting is one of the key concepts in modern quantum technology. Fully understanding it can help us advance our knowledge in quantum information processing. Assistant Professor Aakanksha Sud (Tohoku University), Dr. Kei Yamamoto (JAEA), Professor Shigemi Mizukami (Tohoku University), and collaborators discovered that Rabi-like splitting could be achieved using nonlinear coupling, which remarkably preserves the symmetries of the system. This result opens up various possibilities to deepen our understanding of nonlinear dynamics and coupling phenomena in artificial control. /news/2025-07-rabi-electrical-artificial-magnets.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:59:36 EDT news671878771 By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered an optical metasurface that controls light to yield a simple and versatile technique for secure encryption, sensing, and computing. /news/2025-07-chiral-metasurfaces-encode-images-visible.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:50:10 EDT news671877679 Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails the ability to conduct electricity without resistance below specific critical temperatures. One particularly fascinating phenomenon observed in some unconventional superconductors is so-called spin-triplet pairing. /news/2025-07-greatly-nonreciprocal-ktao-based-interface.html Condensed Matter Superconductivity Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:30:02 EDT news671711101 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 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 Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth would be just another dead world. If Earth life is a reliable indicator, then water is necessary for life, full stop. /news/2025-07-earth-born-delivery.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:59:47 EDT news671792380 Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) School of Engineering have cracked a major challenge in display technology by inventing the world's brightest and most energy efficient quantum rod LEDs (QRLEDs). These next-generation QRLEDs feature optimized deep green emission at the top of the color triangle, enabling displays with unprecedented color purity and a maximized color gamut. /news/2025-07-gen-rod-smartphones-tvs-ultra.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:25:56 EDT news671786743 Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in unpredictable paths shaped by invisible forces and random environmental fluctuations. /news/2025-07-ai-tool-deciphers-mysteries-nanoparticle.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:23:31 EDT news671786606 Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and arrangement in space. And this difference can change everything. Understanding and controlling this phenomenon is crucial to drug design. /news/2025-07-stable-chiral-molecules-stereogenic-centers.html Biochemistry Materials Science Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:15:25 EDT news671782519 Scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University have discovered an unexpected "quantum echo" in a superconducting material. This discovery provides insight into quantum behaviors that could be used for next-generation quantum sensing and computing technologies. /news/2025-07-scientists-quantum-echo-superconducting-materials.html Condensed Matter Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:08:57 EDT news671782131 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 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 A few years ago, physicists were surprised to learn that stacking and subtly twisting two atomically thin layers of an electronic material like graphene creates a pattern that changes the material's properties and can even turn it into a superconductor. This superimposed grid, like what would emerge if two window screens were laid slightly askew, is called a moiré pattern. /news/2025-07-patterns-exploring-supermoir.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:26:00 EDT news671714754 For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make up about 80% of the universe's mass and needed to explain a variety of physical phenomena. Numerous methods have been used in attempts to detect dark matter, from trying to produce it in particle accelerators to searching for cosmic radiation that it might emit in space. /news/2025-07-dark-side-scientists-nuclear-clock.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:40:06 EDT news671711308 A powerful new method to control magnetic behavior in ultra-thin materials could lead to faster, smaller and more energy-efficient technologies, a study suggests. /news/2025-07-scientists-unveil-magnetism-super-thin.html Condensed Matter Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:13:57 EDT news671703232 Spintronics are promising devices that work utilizing not only the charge of electrons, like conventional electronics, but also their spin (i.e., their intrinsic angular momentum). The development of fast and energy-efficient spintronic devices greatly depends on the identification of materials with a tunable spin-selective conductivity, which essentially means that engineers can control how electrons with different spin orientations move through these materials, ideally using external magnetic or electric fields. /news/2025-07-mechanism-tungsten-diselenide.html Condensed Matter Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:50:01 EDT news671449167 In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known fundamental particles and three forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. Meanwhile, Einstein's general relativity describes gravity and the fabric of spacetime. /news/2025-07-large-hadron-collider-snap-theory.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:25:28 EDT news671426717 For decades, ferromagnetic materials have driven technologies like magnetic hard drives, magnetic random access memories and oscillators. But antiferromagnetic materials, if only they could be harnessed, hold out even greater promise: ultra-fast information transfer and communications at much higher frequencies—a "holy grail" for physicists. /news/2025-07-physicists-holy-grail-electron.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:39:57 EDT news671384392