What Qualifies An Animal As A Marsupial?
What Exactly Is a Marsupial? The word “marsupial” is derived from “marsupium” or pouch meaning that these are animals who possess pouches to carry their […]
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Quantum sensors for new-physics discoveries
Available to watch now, a Quantum Week webinar exploring new applications of quantum sensors Want to learn more on this subject? (Courtesy: iStock: Bellenixe) This […]
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Sugar offers a sweet solution for patterning curvy microelectronics
Sweet: using a sugar solution, Gary Zabow transferred gold letters onto a human hair. The result is shown in false colour in this black and […]
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Scalable integration of quantum emitters into photonic integrated circuits
Available to watch now, a Quantum Week webinar exploring the full potential of photonic quantum technologies Want to learn more on this subject? To unleash […]
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Perspectives on societal aspects and impacts of quantum technologies
Available to watch now, a Quantum Week webinar exploring the forthcoming quantum technology revolution Want to learn more on this subject? (Courtesy: iStock/agsandrew) Quantum science […]
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Focus on U.S. Department of Energy’s Nanoscale Science Research Centers
Available to watch now, Nanotechnology explores the work carried out at the Department of Energy’s Nanoscale Science Research Centers Want to learn more on this […]
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Red supergiant stars get dimmer before they explode
An artist’s impression of the star Betelgeuse going supernova. (Courtesy: European Southern Observatory/L. Calçada) Massive stars in their “red supergiant” phase become around 100 times […]
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Medical physics explained in 22 tales
Telling tales To create an image for the cover of the book, Jacob Van Dyk volunteered to undergo a 3T MRI scan. He notes that […]
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Breaking boundaries: physicist bags 2022 economics Nobel
Once a physicist: Philip Dybvig shared this year’s Economics Nobel prize. (Courtesy: © Nobel Prize Outreach, Ill. Niklas Elmehed) In the run up to this […]
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Ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus could be rich in a key ingredient for life
Blue moon Infrared views of Enceladus as seen by Cassini. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/LPG/CNRS/University of Nantes/Space Science Institute) The subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus […]
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Anomalous plasma burning heats-up fusion research
Suprathermal effect: researchers at NIF have discovered that ions involved in nuclear fusion are not moving as expected. (Courtesy: John Jett/Jake Long/LLNL) Last year and […]
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