The Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown how vulnerable global supply chains can be. International events can disrupt...
There are stark differences between metals, through which electrons flow freely, and electrical insulators, in which electrons are essentially immobile....
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used chiral phonons to convert...
Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci’s understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time....
Research in fundamental science has revealed the existence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP)—a newly identified state of matter—as the constituent of...
Imagine going for an MRI scan of your knee. This scan measures the density of water molecules present in your...
In a recently published article in the journal Nature Physics, a team of researchers with the participation of the University...
Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow’s quantum computers and are central to optoelectronics and energy-harvesting...
Since 1996, Duke Engineering Professor Adrian Bejan has demonstrated numerous natural phenomena that validate his constructal theory in practice. In...
Scientists from the Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science at the University of Tsukuba demonstrated a simple method to...
Dramatic advances in quantum computing, smartphones that only need to be charged once a month, trains that levitate and move...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. Inspired by this work, scientists...
