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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. What's the Research All About? Creating silicon-based material that could efficiently emit light for optoelectronic devices has been a “holy grail” in the field of optical electronic devices for th...

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 with solutions to overcome this problem. Led by chemist Rebecca Abergel, the team at Tennessee’s Oa...

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 to the degree required by astronomers. Starlink satellites with an anti-reflective coating are half ...

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 don't 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 internet satellites also continue to be a problem at other light wavelengths, The initial pack of 60 Sta...