A portable spectrometer built using a “lab on a chip”
A mini, portable tool to measure light could improve everything from smartphone cameras to environmental monitoring. Spectrometers, instruments used to measure the properties of light, [more…]
A mini, portable tool to measure light could improve everything from smartphone cameras to environmental monitoring. Spectrometers, instruments used to measure the properties of light, [more…]
Oscillations measured in the orbits of a pair of black holes have once again helped confirm predictions made using general relativity. Einstein’s theory of general [more…]
Exploiting defects in 2D hexagonal boron nitride to create reliable single photons, researchers have upped their quantum encryption game. In recent years, quantum mechanics has [more…]
Researchers have found that supernovae explosions are preceded by observable radiation whose features should make it possible to distinguish the radiation of a future supernova [more…]
A new coating designed for sub-ambient radiative cooling could help combat global warming by curbing energy use. Global warming is one of the most serious [more…]
Researchers at the Southern University of Science and Technology in China ask if gravitons can be promising candidates for dark matter components. Since the 1930s, [more…]
Cold ytterbium atoms were used to test a fundamental theory which describes phenomena in solids such as magnetism and superconductivity. Many physical phenomena take place [more…]
Physicists at the Gemini Observatory have found a new mass limit for massive stars, and found it to be lower than previously thought. Very massive [more…]
A new experimental technique could push the capabilities of particle accelerators in exploring the subatomic world. Particle accelerators are indispensable tools, having contributed to new [more…]
We know that the universe is expanding, and our understanding of nature based on general relativity and the Standard Model of elementary particles is consistent [more…]