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Condensed Matter 42 minutes ago

Harnessing GeSn semiconductors for tomorrow's quantum world

An international team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), Tohoku University (Japan), and École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) has made a significant discovery in semiconductor science by revealing ...

Plants & Animals 2 hours ago

Smart cutting system used by female sawflies could transform surgery and reduce patient harm

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have unlocked the secret behind how female sawflies make specific cuts to plants—a discovery that could revolutionize surgical instruments and dramatically reduce the cutting of healthy ...

Nanophysics Oct 3, 2025

Ultra-thin sodium films offer low-cost alternative to gold and silver in optical technologies

From solar panels to next-generation medical devices, many emerging technologies rely on materials that can manipulate light with extreme precision. These materials—called plasmonic materials—are typically made from expensive ...

Superconductivity Oct 3, 2025

Researchers demonstrate substrate design principles for scalable superconducting quantum materials

Silicides—alloys of silicon and metals long used in microelectronics—are now being explored again for quantum hardware. But their use faces a critical challenge: achieving phase purity, since some silicide phases are ...

Nanophysics Oct 1, 2025

Laser pulses in graphene control electrons with lightning speed and nanometer precision

A research team in Kiel has demonstrated a previously unknown effect in graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms whose discovery earned the 2010 Nobel Prize. For years, graphene has been seen as a promising material for ...

Environment Oct 1, 2025

How sustainable are reusable cups? New tool aims to find out

Imagine you have just finished a delicious to-go meal or morning coffee, or used the last drop of moisturizer. Without thinking too hard, you may be ready to toss another container into the trash, adding to the 82 million ...

Plants & Animals Oct 1, 2025

Palm trees in Africa are in decline: These botanists made a plan to do something about it

Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments as diverse as deserts and rainforests. Central Africa holds the richest variety, home to 52 species, while west Africa has 38 and east Africa 18. They ...

Analytical Chemistry Sep 30, 2025

Core electron bonding may not always require extreme pressure, study finds

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

Condensed Matter Sep 30, 2025

Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists solve mystery of loop current switching in kagome metals

Quantum metals are metals where quantum effects—behaviors that normally only matter at atomic scales—become powerful enough to control the metal's macroscopic electrical properties.

Condensed Matter Sep 30, 2025

Human intuition fuels AI-driven quantum materials discovery

Many properties of the world's most advanced materials are beyond the reach of quantitative modeling. Understanding them also requires a human expert's reasoning and intuition, which can't be replicated by even the most powerful ...

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