The World’s Hottest Engine Is Smaller Than a Cell and Hotter Than the Sun’s Corona
Technically speaking, an engine is a device that converts some form of energy into mechanical energy. Taking that…
China tests deep-sea ‘Spider’ to track ghostly cosmic neutrinos
Chinese scientists have made a major step in the hunt for elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos. Researchers from…
Chinese Nobel prize winning physicist dies aged 103
Chen Ning Yang, Nobel laureate and one of the world’s most influential physicists, has died at the age…
Distinct mechanochromic and piezochromic behaviors of thermally activated delayed fluorescence 4CzTPN crystal
Zhang, X., Chi, Z., Zhang, Y., Liu, S. & Xu, J. Recent advances in mechanochromic luminescent metal complexes.…
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-ning Yang dies, aged 103
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, died in Beijing on Saturday at the age of 103. Yang died…
Single-shot phase diversity wavefront sensing in deep turbulence via metasurface optics
Al-Gailani, S. A. et al. A survey of Free Space Optics (FSO) communication systems, links, and networks. IEEE…
A New Way To Make (Almost) Holograms With Lasers
The spectrum of laser technologies available to hackers has gradually widened from basic gas lasers through CO2 tubes,…
Laser-powered quantum radio works without electricity or antennas
A team of physicists at the University of Warsaw has built the world’s first all-optical radio receiver powered…
the breakthrough reshaping water science forever
To capture what was happening on the atomic level, the team employed ultrashort X-ray bursts from the European…
Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension the same thing as dark energy?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Scientists Reveal the Fluid Physics Behind Why Sighs Feel So Damn Good
The human body works in complex ways—sometimes, certain motions are so small that it’s easy to miss how…
Monopole-mediated light control of half skyrmion topology in nematic liquid crystals
Creation of topological monopole-antimonopole pairs in half skyrmions Topological defects, which are a necessary result of broken continuous…