Acoustic tweezers use sound waves to create a potential-energy well that can hold an object in place – they are the acoustic ...

Environmentally friendly dissolution-based method reduces temperature of water by nearly 27 K in just 20 seconds ...

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Muons tend to scatter more from high-atomic-number materials, so the technique is particularly sensitive to the presence of materials such as uranium. As a result, it has been used to create systems ...

Katie Perry studied physics at the University of Surrey in the UK, staying on there to do a PhD. While at Surrey, she worked with the nuclear physicist Daphne Jackson, who was the first female physics ...

The green hydrogen and ammonia project would have increased light pollution at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert ...

Gears have been around for thousands of years, with the first records dating back to 3000 BC. While they have advanced over ...

Biotech researchers First author Gabriel Abrahams and senior author Harrison Steel are part of a team at the University of Oxford developing magneto-sensitive fluorescent proteins. (Courtesy: Olivia ...

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A passive vacuum pump that uses 3D-printed surfaces to better absorb gas molecules has been unveiled by researchers in the UK ...

A faint flash of infrared light in the Andromeda galaxy was emitted at the birth of a stellar-mass black hole – according to a team of astronomers in the US. Kishalay De at Columbia University and the ...