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Recently,  Physics World magazine announced that Elham Fadaly ’13 and her team at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands won the Physics World 2020 Breakthrough of the Year. By creating a silicon-based material that emits light efficiently at wavelengths in the range of the optical telecommunications window, the team unlocked a door of opportunities for silicon devices. Whats the Research All About? Creating silicon-based material that could efficiently emit light for o...

Einsteinium, Element Named after Albert Einstein, No More a Mystery as Scientists Discover its Properties FOLLOW US ON: Placed quite down in the periodic table with the atomic number 99, Einsteinium is the seventh transuranic element. Named after world-renowned physicist Albert Einstein, the properties of one of the heaviest elements, einsteinium, have not been understood clearly so far. But that has now changed as the researchers from California’s Berkeley National Laboratory have come up w...

Quantum computers, according to experts, will one day be capable of performing incredible calculations and nearly unfathomable feats of logic. In the near future, we know they’ll help us discover new drugs to fight disease and new materials to build with. But the far future potential for these enigmatic machines is as vast as the […]

Darkened SpaceX Satellites Can Still Disrupt Astronomy, New Research Suggests Share Launch of SpaceX Starlink satellites on November 24, 2020. (Image: SpaceX) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. SpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not ...

The Astrophysical Journal. Darkened Starlink satellites could still disrupt astronomy, says study Starlink satellites with anti-reflective coating are already half the brightness of the standard models, according to the study. While this is an improvement, the darkened models dont lower the "noise" of light pollution, according to the team of scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory in Japan — under the leadership of Takashi Horiuchi. Called "DarkSats," the SpaceX-launched intern...

Los Alamos National Laboratory 2020 Year In Review By CAROL A. CLARK caclark@ladailypost.com Looking back over 2020, Director Thom Mason said it is the 13,000 Laboratory employees that he is most proud of … how they have stepped up and met the challenges of a global pandemic. LANL Director Thom Mason Just shifting that large number of employees from working onsite to working remotely was quite an endeavor and Mason commended the employees on having adapted so well. “Those employees that had...

15 Ways LANL Made An Impact In 2020 — COVID-19 And Beyond While COVID-19 dominated headlines in the science world, Los Alamos National Laboratory made its mark on 2020 with successes across the board. Photo Courtesy LANL LANL NEWS From innovation in education to nonreactive nuclear energy, COVID-19 forecasts to jet fuel produced from corn, the Laboratory spent the year impacting the nation — and New Mexico 1: Front-line fighters in the war against COVID-19 Beginning in March and still go...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The physics magazine Physics World recognizes Light from silicon as the revolutionary new discovery of the year. They deem the work of the group of TU/e researcher Erik Bakkers to... view more  Credit: Photo: TU Eindhoven In April of this year, TU/e presented a new gamechanger in the chip world: silicon that emits light. For decades it has been regarded as the Holy Grail in the microelectronics industry, given that it could make computer chips faster than ever. The phys...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Prof. Dr Silvana Botti and Jens Renè Suckert from the University of Jena have been awarded for the "Breakthrough of the Year " 2020. On the PC is the image from... view more  Credit: (Photo: Juergen Scheere/University of Jena) For the development of a light-emitting silicon alloy, researchers from TU Eindhoven, Netherlands and the University of Jena, Germany together with partners from the University of Linz and TU Munich, are today (17 December) being awarded the "Br...

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