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Soft Matter Mar 29, 2021

International team uncovers mystery behind 'coffee ring' formation

An international research team, led by Monash University, has discovered for the first time the mystery behind the formation of 'coffee rings' by examining the contact angle of droplets onto a surface, and how they dry.

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Mar 26, 2021

A bio-inspired mechano-photonic artificial synapse

Multifunctional and diverse artificial neural systems can incorporate multimodal plasticity, memory and supervised learning functions to assist neuromorphic computation. In a new report, Jinran Yu and a research team in nanoenergy, ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 22, 2021

Diamond color centers for nonlinear photonics

Researchers from the Department of Applied Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics at the University of Tsukuba demonstrated second-order nonlinear optical effects in diamonds by taking advantage of internal color center defects that break inversion symmetry ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 19, 2021

A single-molecule electrical approach for amino acid detection and chirality recognition

Analytical chemistry aims to efficiently discriminate between two amino acids. In a new report in Science Advances, Zihao Liu and a research team in Chemistry, Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics, and Materials Science in China and Japan, used a single-molecule ...

Nanophysics Mar 16, 2021

Acoustic graphene plasmons study paves way for optoelectronic applications

KAIST researchers and their collaborators at home and abroad have successfully demonstrated a new methodology for direct near-field optical imaging of acoustic graphene plasmon fields. This strategy will provide a breakthrough ...

Nanophysics Mar 8, 2021

Tiny diamonds prove an excellent material for accelerator components

When it comes to producing high-quality electron beams like those found in state-of-the-art scientific equipment like free-electron lasers, ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging and wakefield accelerators, scientists ...

Condensed Matter Mar 4, 2021

Thin explosive films provide snapshot of how detonations start

Using thin films—no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick—of a common explosive chemical, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories studied how small-scale explosions start and grow. Sandia is the only lab ...

Earth Sciences Feb 24, 2021

Asteroid dust found in crater closes case of dinosaur extinction

Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid ...

Space Exploration Feb 19, 2021

Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover overcame a tense landing phase with a series of perfectly executed maneuvers to gently float down to the Martian soil Thursday and embark on its mission to search for ...

Space Exploration Feb 18, 2021

Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find out

Seven months traveling through space, a mission that was decades in the making and cost billions of dollars, all to answer the question: was there ever life on Mars?

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