• This laser implosion just created a magnetic field like a neutron star
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields—rivaling those near neutron stars—all within a compact laboratory setup. This innovation promises to transform...
  • Chirality shock: Geneva chemists forge millennia-stable ‘mirror-proof’ drugs
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose mirror-image “handedness” remains rock-solid for tens of thousands of years. By swapping the usual carbon-bound arms for...
  • This AI-powered lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    A new leap in lab automation is shaking up how scientists discover materials. By switching from slow, traditional methods to real-time, dynamic chemical experiments, researchers have created a self-driving lab that collects 10 times more...
  • One tiny trick just broke light’s oldest rule — and changed optics forever
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Researchers have cracked a fundamental optical challenge: how to control both angle and wavelength of light independently—a problem that’s limited imaging and display technologies for years. By harnessing the power of radiation...
  • This Algorithm Just Solved One of Physics’ Most Infamous Problems
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of electron flow in tricky materials.
  • First-of-its-kind crystal laser could power safer sensors and smarter tech
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works at room temperature, using a buried layer of glass-like material instead of the usual air holes. This design not...
  • A simple twist unlocks never-before-seen quantum behavior
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method for creating quantum states by twisting materials at the M-point, revealing exotic phenomena previously out of reach. This new direction dramatically expands the moiré toolkit and may...
  • This magnetic breakthrough could make AI 10x more efficient
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    A groundbreaking step in AI hardware efficiency comes from Germany, where scientists have engineered a vast spin waveguide network that processes information with far less energy. These spin waves quantum ripples in magnetic materials...
  • Forget 3D printing—DNA and water now build tiny machines that assemble themselves
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the predictable folding of DNA strands. Their...
  • Lasers capture the invisible dance of wind and waves
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, revealing two simultaneous wind–wave energy-transfer tricks—slow short waves steal power from the breeze, while long...
  • Scientists just recreated a 1938 experiment that could rewrite fusion history
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur Ruhlig, a little-known physicist, first...
  • Hidden DNA-sized crystals in cosmic ice could rewrite water—and life itself
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental understanding of ice in the cosmos. These...
  • They glow without fusion—hidden stars that may finally reveal dark matter
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep within them. These “dark dwarfs” could exist in regions like the galactic center, where dark matter is thickest....
  • Breakthrough battery lets physicists reverse entanglement—and rewrite quantum law
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physical Chemistry News
    Scientists have finally uncovered a quantum counterpart to Carnot’s famed second law, showing that entanglement—once thought stubbornly irreversible—can be shuffled back and forth without loss if you plug in a clever “entanglement battery.”
  • Scientists capture real-time birth of ultrafast laser pulses
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Scientists have captured the moment a laser "comes to life"—and what they found challenges long-held beliefs. Using a special technique to film laser light in real time, researchers observed how multiple pulses grow and organize...
  • Defying physics: This rare crystal cools itself using pure magnetism
    Sunday, July 6, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physical Chemistry News
    Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge, this effect doesn’t rely on gases or...
  • Can one vanishing particle shatter string theory — and explain dark matter?
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not to exist within string theory—might...
  • A shocking new way to make ammonia, no fossil fuels needed
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Australian scientists have discovered a method to produce ammonia—an essential component in fertilizers—using only air and electricity. By mimicking lightning and channeling that energy through a small device, they’ve bypassed the...
  • Scientists just mapped platinum atoms — and it could transform catalysis forever
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between scientists at ETH Zurich and other...
  • This breakthrough turns old tech into pure gold — No mercury, no cyanide, just light and salt
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool disinfectants and a novel polymer that...
  • Graphene just unlocked “impossible” quantum currents without magnets
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Researchers have achieved a major breakthrough by generating quantum spin currents in graphene—without relying on bulky magnetic fields. By pairing graphene with a magnetic material, they unlocked a powerful quantum effect that allows...
  • Self-lighting chip uses quantum tunneling to spot a trillionth of a gram
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller than your fingernail. That’s the power of a new quantum-enabled biosensor developed at EPFL. Ditching bulky...
  • One shot, game changed: How RAVEN captured a petawatt laser and supercharged fusion research
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot—something previously thought nearly impossible. These pulses, capable of accelerating...
  • This triple-layer sunlight catalyst supercharges green hydrogen by 800%
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers in Sweden have developed a powerful new material that dramatically boosts the ability to create hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight, making the process eight times more effective than before. This breakthrough could be...
  • Rice University breakthrough keeps CO₂ electrolyzers running 50x longer
    Sunday, June 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    A Rice University team discovered that bubbling CO₂ through a mild acid dramatically improves the lifespan and efficiency of electrochemical devices that convert CO₂ into useful fuels. This simple trick prevents salt buildup—a major...
  • Breakthrough magnet design could transform MRI and magnetic levitation
    Sunday, June 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Two German physicists have reimagined how to create powerful and uniform magnetic fields using compact permanent magnets. By overcoming the limitations of the well-known Halbach array, which works only with infinitely long magnets, they...
  • Hydrogen fuel at half the cost? Scientists reveal a game-changing catalyst
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Researchers in South Korea have developed a powerful and affordable new material for producing hydrogen, a clean energy source key to fighting climate change. By fine-tuning boron-doping and phosphorus levels in cobalt phosphide...
  • Photon-powered alchemy: How light is rewriting fossil fuel chemistry
    Friday, June 20, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a new photoredox catalysis system that uses visible light mimicking photosynthesis to drive energy-intensive chemical reactions at room temperature. This groundbreaking process...
  • Invisible quantum waves forge shape-shifting super-materials in real time
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Scientists have, for the first time, directly observed phonon wave dynamics within self-assembling nanomaterials unlocking the potential for customizable, reconfigurable metamaterials with applications ranging from shock absorbers to...
  • Saving energy: New method guides magnetism without magnets
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    In a leap toward greener tech, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have discovered a way to control magnetic textures using electric fields no bulky magnets needed. Their star material? A strange crystal called copper oxyselenide,...
  • Heavy particles, big secrets: What happened right after the Big Bang
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists are finally getting a better handle on what happens next. A sweeping new study dives deep into how ultra-heavy...
  • Cozmic’s Milky Way clones are cracking the universe’s dark code
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Scientists have built detailed Milky Way simulations under strange new physical laws to probe dark matter, revealing how different versions of the universe might behave and helping us get closer to the real one.
  • This quantum sensor tracks 3D movement without GPS
    Saturday, June 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physical Chemistry News
    Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a groundbreaking quantum device that can measure 3D acceleration using ultracold atoms, something once thought nearly impossible. By chilling rubidium atoms to near absolute...
  • Scientists just solved a 40-year-old mystery about quasicrystals
    Saturday, June 14, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    Scientists at the University of Michigan have unlocked a long-standing mystery about quasicrystals exotic materials that straddle the line between the orderly structure of crystals and the chaos of glass. These rare solids, which once...
  • Clean energy, dirty secrets: Inside the corruption plaguing california’s solar market
    Wednesday, June 11, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    California s solar energy boom is often hailed as a green success story but a new study reveals a murkier reality beneath the sunlit panels. Researchers uncover seven distinct forms of corruption threatening the integrity of the state s...
  • Photons collide in the void: Quantum simulation creates light out of nothing
    Sunday, June 8, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Physicists have managed to simulate a strange quantum phenomenon where light appears to arise from empty space a concept that until now has only existed in theory. Using cutting-edge simulations, researchers modeled how powerful lasers...
  • This battery self-destructs: Biodegradable power inspired by 'Mission: Impossible'
    Saturday, June 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Scientists at Binghamton University are bringing a sci-fi fantasy to life by developing tiny batteries that vanish after use inspired by Mission: Impossible. Led by Professor Seokheun Choi, the team is tackling one of the trickiest parts...
  • Scientists freeze quantum motion using ultrafast laser trick
    Thursday, June 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Harvard and PSI scientists have managed to freeze normally fleeting quantum states in time, creating a pathway to control them using pure electronic tricks and laser precision.
  • Atmospheric chemistry keeps pollutants in the air
    Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    A new study details processes that keep pollutants aloft despite a drop in emissions.
  • Researchers develop recyclable, healable electronics
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    Electronics often get thrown away after use because recycling them requires extensive work for little payoff. Researchers have now found a way to change the game.
  • Ultra-thin lenses that make infrared light visible
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Physicists have developed a lens with 'magic' properties. Ultra-thin, it can transform infrared light into visible light by halving the wavelength of incident light.
  • Self-powered artificial synapse mimics human color vision
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Despite advances in machine vision, processing visual data requires substantial computing resources and energy, limiting deployment in edge devices. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a self-powered artificial synapse that...
  • Synthetic compound shows promise against multidrug resistance
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Researchers have synthesized a new compound called infuzide that shows activity against resistant strains of pathogens.
  • Discovery could boost solid-state battery performance
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Researchers have discovered that the mixing of small particles between two solid electrolytes can generate an effect called a 'space charge layer,' an accumulation of electric charge at the interface between the two materials. The...
  • New laser smaller than a penny can measure objects at ultrafast rates
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Researchers have engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the most delicate experiments in existence...
  • Insect protein blocks bacterial infection
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Chemistry News
    Scientists in Australia have developed a smart, bacteria-repelling coating based on resilin the ultra-elastic protein that gives fleas their legendary jumping power. When applied to surfaces like medical implants or surgical tools, the...
  • Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots
    Friday, May 30, 2025 from Inorganic Chemistry News -- ScienceDaily
    Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator -- the 'muscle' that converts energy into a robot's physical movement -- that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal the injury and repair its...
  • Single-atom catalysts change spin state when boosted by a magnetic field
    Friday, May 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Researchers proposed a novel strategy for using a magnetic field to boost the efficiency of single-atom catalysts -- thus speeding up helpful reactions used for ammonia production and wastewater treatment.
  • Listening to electrons talk
    Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physics News
    Researchers present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has a much higher nuclear charge than any previous measurement. The experimental accuracy reached a level of 0.5 parts...
  • Does outdoor air pollution affect indoor air quality? It could depend on buildings' HVAC
    Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Physical Chemistry News
    Researchers determined how much outdoor particulate pollution affects indoor air quality. Their study concluded pollution from inversion and dust events is kept out of buildings, but wildfire smoke can sneak inside if efficient 'air-side...
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