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October 22, 2024

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Novel 2D Electro-Polaritonic Platform for Future Miniaturized Spectrometers

Oct. 22, 2024 — Researchers present the integration of a detector system and a polaritonic platform in the same 2D material, enabling for the first time the detection of 2D polaritonic nanoresonators with spectral resolution. The device is suitable for ...

Neutron Stars May Be Shrouded in Axions

Oct. 18, 2024 — Physicists have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for -- and moreover, they might not be ...

Material Stimulated by Light Pulses Could Be Leap Toward More Energy-Efficient Supercomputing

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers used X-ray microscopy to discover a ferroelectric material that tailors its response to controlled ultrafast external stimuli, such as light pulses. The material might be applicable to ...

Nanoparticle Therapy Offers New Hope for Prostate Cancer Patients

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers developed an approach to treating prostate cancer, successfully eliminating cancerous cells in 73% of patients in the ...

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Quantum Research Breakthrough Uses Synthetic Dimensions to Efficiently Process Quantum Information

Oct. 17, 2024 — A new study opens the door to cutting-edge solutions that could contribute to the realization of a system capable of processing quantum information ...

Visible Light Energy Yields Two-for-One Deal When Added to CO2 Recycling Process

Oct. 17, 2024 — By combining visible light and electrochemistry, researchers have enhanced the conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable products and stumbled upon ...

The Expansion of Turbid Drops in Water

Oct. 17, 2024 — It is usually not possible to look inside cloudy liquids, but researchers have now managed to do ...

Breakthrough in Soft Robotics: First Toroidal Micro-Robot to Swim Autonomously in Viscous Liquids

Oct. 8, 2024 — Researchers introduces the first toroidal, light-driven micro-robot that can move autonomously in viscous liquids, such as mucus. This innovation ...

Engineers Set New Record on How Fast Data Can Be Sent Wirelessly

Oct. 16, 2024 — A new world record in wireless transmission, promising faster and more reliable wireless communications, has been set by researchers. The total bandwidth of 145GHz is more than five times higher than ...

Rewriting the Future: New Molecules Reversibly Change With Light and Heat

Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed photoswitching molecules that reversibly change properties not only with light, but also with heat. They showed that the molecules can be used as a rewritable recording ...

Researchers Develop Janus-Like Metasurface Technology That Acts According to the Direction of Light

Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have overcome the limitations of existing metasurface technologies and successfully designed a Janus metasurface capable of perfectly ...

Invention Quickly Detects Earliest Sign of Heart Attack

Oct. 16, 2024 — With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at ...

Researchers Develop System Cat's Eye-Inspired Vision for Autonomous Robotics

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled a vision system inspired by feline eyes to enhance object detection in various lighting conditions. Featuring a unique ...

Let There Be Light: Bright Future for Solar Panels, TV Screens and More

Oct. 14, 2024 — From brighter TV screens to better medical diagnostics and more efficient solar panels, new research has discovered how to make more molecules stick to the surface of tiny nanocrystals, in a ...

New Method for Measuring Luminescence Lifetime Offers Breakthrough in Scientific Imaging

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers introduce an innovative approach to image luminescence lifetimes. This simple approach uses readily-available cost-effective equipment, paving the way for advanced studies of chemical ...

Illuminating Quantum Magnets: Light Unveils Magnetic Domains

Oct. 11, 2024 — Scientists have used light to visualize magnetic domains, and manipulated these regions using an electric field, in a quantum antiferromagnet. This method allows real-time observation of magnetic ...

Engineering Perovskite Materials at the Atomic Level Paves Way for New Lasers, LEDs

Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed and demonstrated a technique that allows them to engineer a class of materials called layered hybrid perovskites (LHPs) down to the atomic level, which dictates precisely ...

Researchers Create the First Ever Visualization of Photoexcited Charges Traveling Across the Interface of Two Semiconductor Materials

Oct. 10, 2024 — Researchers have observed electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials. Using scanning ultrafast electron (SUEM) techniques, the research team has directly ...

Holographic 3D Printing Has the Potential to Revolutionize Multiple Industries

Oct. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel method of 3D printing that uses acoustic holograms. The process is called holographic direct sound printing (HDSP). It builds on a method introduced in 2022 that ...

AI Speeds Up the Discovery of Energy and Quantum Materials

Oct. 7, 2024 — Unearthing new LEDs, solar cells, and photodetectors requires extensive knowledge surrounding the optical properties of materials. Calculating these takes time and resources. Yet researchers unveiled ...

A Breakthrough in Chiral Capsule Tools for Advanced Optical Technologies

Oct. 6, 2024 — Simple encapsulation by terpene-based chiral capsules allows various non-chiral organic dyes to display chiroptical properties in water, without requiring elaborate chemical modifications, scientists ...

Logic With Light: Introducing Diffraction Casting, Optical-Based Parallel Computing

Oct. 3, 2024 — Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

Engineers Create a Chip-Based Tractor Beam for Biological Particles

Oct. 3, 2024 — A chip-based 'tractor beam' can trap and manipulate biological particles using a tightly focused beam of light emitted from a silicon-photonics chip. The device could help biologists and ...

New Security Protocol Shields Data from Attackers During Cloud-Based Computation

Oct. 1, 2024 — Researchers developed a technique guaranteeing that data remain secure during multiparty, cloud-based computation. This method, which leverages the quantum properties of light, could enable ...

Researchers Observe Hidden Deformations in Complex Light Fields

Oct. 1, 2024 — Everyday experience tells us that light reflected from a perfectly flat mirror will give us the correct image without any deformation. Interestingly, this is not the case when the light field itself ...

Squid-Inspired Fabric for Temperature-Controlled Clothing

Oct. 1, 2024 — Inspired by the dynamic color-changing properties of squid skin, researchers have developed a method to manufacture a heat-adjusting material that is breathable and washable and can be integrated ...

Researchers Integrate Fast OCT System Into Neurosurgical Microscope

Oct. 1, 2024 — Clinical study of microscope-integrated system lays groundwork for using OCT to define tumor margins and reveal subsurface brain ...

Scientists Uncover Light Absorbing Properties of Achiral Materials

Sep. 30, 2024 — Researchers have made a discovery that changes what we know about light and materials. They found that engineered achiral (symmetric) materials, called achiral plasmonic metasurfaces, can absorb ...

Medical Imaging Breakthrough Could Transform Cancer and Arthritis Diagnosis

Sep. 30, 2024 — A new hand-held scanner can generate highly detailed 3D photoacoustic images in just seconds, paving the way for their use in a clinical setting for the first time and offering the potential for ...

Temporarily Apart

Sep. 27, 2024 — Extremely thin materials consisting of just a few atomic layers promise applications for electronics and quantum technologies. Researchers have now made remarkable progress with a new experiment: The ...

Shrinking AR Displays Into Eyeglasses to Expand Their Use

Sep. 25, 2024 — Augmented reality (AR) takes digital images and superimposes them onto real-world views. But AR is more than a new way to play video games; it could transform surgery and self-driving cars. To make ...

Lasers Provide Boon for Manufacturing of Ceremonial Thai Umbrellas

Sep. 24, 2024 — The tiered umbrella is one of Thailand's oldest and most sacred ornamental symbols. Constructing one of these ornate pieces, also called chatras, can take master artisans up to six months. ...

Revolutionary Visible-Light-Antenna Ligand Enhances Samarium-Catalyzed Reactions

Sep. 19, 2024 — Divalent samarium compounds are important reagents for reductive transformations in organic chemistry. However, currently, a high amount of this reagent is required in most reactions, and it also ...

Coronavirus Spike Proteins Can Be Selectively Detected in 5 Minutes

Sep. 19, 2024 — Can an immunoassay be created and selectively detect a virus in under 5 minutes? In a new study, researchers report that it can be done using a low-power laser like a laser pointer with a little ...