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Ring lights that make you look great on camera
A stunningly simple solution. (Nadine Shaabana via Unsplash/)Frequent online video meetings are a side-effect of working from home that not everyone loves, and can be downright exhausting. On top of the challenges of...
FX renews 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' for Season 15
FX renewed long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" for Season 15.
Rejuvenated fibroblasts can recover the ability to contract
A recent study has shown that rejuvenated fibroblasts can recover their ability to self-contract. This encouraging discovery holds great potential for applications in regenerative medicine and stem cell engineering.
Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation
Light carrying photon momentum can push and pull microparticles through momentum exchange. This momentum exchange process generates optical forces, which either attracts (conventional optical tweezers), pushes (radiation force) or pulls...
Towards visible-wavelength passively mode-locked lasers in all-fibre format
Mode-locked fibre lasers generating ultrashort pulses with the advantages of robustness, compactness and excellent beam quality are of tremendous interest in applications such as laser material processing, medicine, precision measurement,...
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network
Optical logical operations have sparked major interest in the past decade since they can enable many applications, particularly those involving high-throughput and on-the-fly data processing such as secured wireless communication...
Two-dimensional MXene as a novel electrode material for next-generation display
Researchers in the US and Korea reported the first efficient flexible light-emitting diodes with a two-dimensional titanium carbide MXene as a flexible and transparent electrode. These MXene-based light-emitting diodes (MX-LED)...
Efficient generation of relativistic near-single-cycle mid-infrared pulses in plasmas
The invention of the chirped pulse amplification technique by Strickland and Mourou in 1985 has boosted the peak power of ultrashort laser pulses to an unprecedented level, which have found...
Saturable plasmonic metasurfaces for laser mode locking
Plasmonic metasurfaces are artificial 2-D sheets of plasmonic unit cells repeated in a subwavelength array, which give rise to unexpected wave properties that do not exist in nature. In the...
A nice day for a quantum walk
Researchers at the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology at Osaka University used trapped ions to demonstrate the spreading of vibrational quanta as part of a quantum random walk....
Development of electrode material improving the efficiency of salinity gradient energy
Dr. Jeong Nam-Jo of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Marine Energy Convergence and Integration Research Team developed synthesis technologies for an electrode material that can directly synthesize molybdenum...
Topological insulators feature lossless conduction at the edges
Atomically thin layers of the semimetal tungsten ditelluride conduct electricity losslessly along narrow, one-dimensional channels at the crystal edges. The material is therefore a second-order topological insulator. By obtaining experimental...
Microbial cyborgs: Bacteria supplying power
Electronic devices are still made of lifeless materials. One day, however, 'microbial cyborgs' might be used in fuel cells, biosensors, or bioreactors. Scientists have created the necessary prerequisite by developing...
Lossless conduction at the edges
Atomically thin layers of the semimetal tungsten ditelluride conduct electricity losslessly along narrow, one-dimensional channels at the crystal edges. The material is therefore a second-order topological insulator. By obtaining experimental...
Breaking down stubborn cellulose in time lapse
Researchers have for the first time ever succeeded in visualizing at the single-molecule level the processes involved in a biological nanomachine, known as the cellulosome, as it degrades crystalline cellulose....
High-security identification that cannot be counterfeited
Researcher have used the principles that underpin the whispering-gallery effect to create an unbeatable anti-counterfeiting system. The researchers' system is a microchip consisting of two-step authentication. Step 1 is the...
Controlling superconductors with light
Scientists have reported a conceptually new method to study the properties of superconductors using optical tools. The new theoretical study shows how to use Terahertz light to peep in the...
Microbial cyborgs: Bacteria supplying power
Electronic devices are still made of lifeless materials. One day, however, "microbial cyborgs" might be used in fuel cells, biosensors, or bioreactors. Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have...
Researchers discover physical origin of electronic phase separation phenomena in complex oxides
A Chinese joint team has conducted a study and discovered the physical origin of electronic phase separation phenomena in complex oxides.
Increased usability and precision in vascular imaging
Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a new X-ray contrast agent. The contrast agent is easier to use and distributes into all blood vessels more reliably, increasing the...
Researchers develop halide double perovskite ferroelectrics
Halide double perovskites have proved to be a promising environmentally friendly optoelectronic and photovoltaic material, exhibiting inherent thermodynamic stability, high defect tolerance and appropriate band gaps. However, no ferroelectric material...
Scientists conduct HONO vertical gradient observations to obtain new findings
The researchers at Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, conducted high-resolution vertical profile measurements of HONO and NO2 to investigate the nocturnal sources of...
Watching single protons moving at water-solid interfaces
Scientists have been able to observe single protons moving at the interface between water and a solid surface. Their research reveals the strong interactions of these charges with surfaces.
New library of atomically thin 2D materials created
Researchers have created a new collection of atomically thin two-dimensional materials. Using novel synthesis conditions for transition metal dichalcogenides, more than 10 new materials have been made by the team,...
Bricks made from plastic, organic waste
Revolutionary 'green' types of bricks and construction materials could be made from recycled PVC, waste plant fibers or sand with the help of a remarkable new kind of recently discovered...
Nanoneedles to increase the capacity and robustness of digital memories
Researchers at the UAB, ICMAB and the ALBA Synchrotron, in collaboration with the UB and ICN2, have developed a new technique to locally modify the properties of a metamagnetic material....
Next-gen laser facilities look to usher in new era of relativistic plasmas research
The subject of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics, chirped pulse amplification is a technique that increases the strength of laser pulses in many of today's highest-powered research lasers. As...
Physicist creates fifth state of matter from the living room
A physicist has created the fifth state of matter working from home using quantum technology.