At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

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Tucked away Illustration showing the position and size of the CONUS+ detector within the reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland.

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Discovery could lift theoretical constraints on calculations achievable with certain types of topological quantum computers ...

Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

Tailored profiles: The working principle of the new metalaser. The designed geometric phase profile is introduced to the metasurface by rotating the hole in each silicon nitride nanodisk. Then the ...

Driven by global warming The researchers identified which factors influence the jet stream in the southern hemisphere. (Courtesy: Leipzig University/Office for University Communications) An ...

NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...