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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Latvia's smart materials and photonics industry has been punching above its weight on the global stage and shows no signs of slowing, seeing over 40%

/PRNewswire/ -- Latvias smart materials and photonics industry has been punching above its weight on the global stage and shows no signs of slowing, seeing...

 E-Mail Researchers have used a technique similar to MRI to follow the movement of individual atoms in real time as they cluster together to form two-dimensional materials, which are a single atomic layer thick. The results, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, could be used to design new types of materials and quantum technology devices. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, captured the movement of the atoms at speeds that are eight orders of magnitude too fast for...

Letters: How should Washington County staff fire stations? With Monday’s Question of the Week, we asked readers for their thoughts on proposals in Washington County for staffing fire stations. Here is a response we received. Consider all the factors This is a very complex question and there are no simple answers. Safety of the county residents is of the utmost importance but that of the first responders providing that protection is paramount also. I would suggest to the decision makers tha...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The physics of massive nuclei can be studied by measuring the note at which tidal resonance between merging neutron stars causes the solid crust of the neutron stars to shatter view more  Credit: University of Bath Space scientists at the University of Bath in the UK have found a new way to probe the internal structure of neutron stars, giving nuclear physicists a novel tool for studying the structures that make up matter at an atomic level. Neutron stars are dead stars...

 E-Mail IMAGE: (a-b) Multimode interaction in a single optomechanical resonator creates an extensible synthetic gauge field; (c-e) Responses of optical photons and phonons in the cavity under different synthetic magnetic field intensities.... view more  Credit: CHEN Yuan et al. The research team led by Prof. GUO Guangcan and Dr. DONG Chunhua from the University of Science and Technology of China realized synthetic gauge fields in a single optomechanical resonator by controlling geomet...

 E-Mail IMAGE: a) Energy levels used to achieve SCC. b) A schematic diagram of SCC readout. c) The excitation spectrum of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center used here at cryogenic temperature of 8?K.... view more  Credit: ZHANG Qi et al. The team led by Professor DU Jiangfeng and Professor WANG Ya from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance of the University of Science and Technology of China put forward an innovative spin-to-charge convers...

 E-Mail IMAGE: An illustration of potassium atoms undergoing changes in fundamental characteristics such as radius, energy and electronegativity as they are compressed by surrounding neon atoms view more  Credit: Neuroncollective, Daniel Spacek, Pavel Travnicek A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental questions about the relationship between the size of an atom and its other properties, such as electronegativity and energy. The res...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A diagram of a nanowire cross-section shows the interaction between atoms in the nanowire core. Yellow atoms: germanium; red atoms: chromium; purple atoms around the outside of the yellow-red connections:... view more  Credit: Ranjit Pati/Michigan Tech The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its behavior holds clues to new ways to store digital data. In a study published in Nano Letters, physicists from Michigan Technologic...