. Scientific Frontline: Physics
Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Material previously thought to be quantum is actually new, nonquantum state of matter

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Research scientist Bin Gal Photo Credit: Courtesy of Rice University Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : The No...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing

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Dyson orbital for electron attachment, calculated using quantum hardware. Image Credit IBM Research and the University of Manchester. Scient...

Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go

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Jan Smrek, PhD Photo Credit: © Sophie Hanak Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Entropic Tug of War in Polymers...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Electrically Detecting 'Liquid-Crystal' Phase Promises Attractive Advancements in Magnets

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Crystal and electronic structures for PT-symmetric antiferromagnet SrMnBi2 with Dirac electrons  Image Credit: ©Hideaki Sakai Scientific Fro...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Photonics: In-Depth Description

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Photonics is the physical science and foundational technology of light (photon) generation, detection, and manipulation through emission, tr...

Quantum computers go high-dimensional

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Marcus Huber (left) and Nicolai Friis Photo Credit: © Alexander Rommel / TU Wien Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summ...

A luminous breakthrough for quantum photonics

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Illustration of the transverse drift quantified with photons Photo Credit: Philippe St-Jean Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Su...

Twisting optical fiber creates a robust new pathway for light

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Emerging from the 2000 degree C furnace, a fibre 'stack' guides light even while it is being drawn.  Credit: Dr Nathan Roberts Scien...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Bacteria with a built-in compass

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Colorized electron microscope image of the chain of magnetic nanoparticles of a single Magnetospirillum gryphsiwaldense bacterium fixed on a...

A 'smart fluid' you can reconfigure with temperature

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Temperature and particle concentration control self-assembly into distinct phases. Image Credit: Ghosh et al., Matter (2026) Scientific Fron...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Rheology: In-Depth Description

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Rheology is the branch of physics and materials science that studies the deformation and flow of matter, primarily in liquids, soft solids, ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Semiconductor physics: polaron formation observed for first time

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LMU physicist Jochen Feldmann (right) and his doctoral student Matthias Kestler in the laser labs for ultrashort spectroscopy at the Nano-In...

UrFU Physicists Discovered Snowflake Has Complex & Asymmetrical Shape

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The calculations of physicists are fundamental, but they will be useful for metallurgists. Photo Credit: Rodion Narudinov Scientific Frontli...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Researchers develop new method for predicting chaos

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These figures show the research result of testing and predicting Lorenz system attractors, which shows deterministic chaos. The butterfly sh...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Particle-in-cell study of electron beam propagation through ionospheric plasma

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ADR system in action Theoretical use of an e-beam in the ionosphere to disperse debris. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Scientific Fro...
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

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An artist’s depiction of a superfluid plasmonic wave. With the terahertz scope, the team observed a frictionless “superfluid” of superconduc...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

New solution to an old magnetism puzzle

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Aline Ramires Photo Credit: Technische Universität Wien Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary The Core Concept : A ...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Reshaping gold leads to new electronic and optical properties

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In the laser laboratory, Tlek Tapani and Nicolò Maccaferri are testing how porous structures enable gold to absorb more light energy than or...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Engineers design structures that compute with heat

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This artistic rendering shows a thermal analog computing device, which performs computations using excess heat, embedded in a microelectroni...

Microelectronics: Researchers identify parent compound for chiral materials

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary The Core Concept : Researchers have identi...