- Energy
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 27th, 2012
Light-Emitting Solar Cells Display Incredible Efficiency
Counterintuitive concept may be the key to harnessing the Sun's energy
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 25th, 2012
Lasers Can Cancel Each Other Out
New effect discovered by international scientific collaboration
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 20th, 2012
Light Can Bend While Moving
The effect is subtle, but has significant practical applications
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 12th, 2012
How Middleweight Stars Shed Their Mass Before Dying
This process remained mysterious to astronomers for many years
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 5th, 2012
Superradiant Laser Created from 1 Million Rubidium Atoms
The novel device was developed by a collaboration of US researchers
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 4th, 2012
Life Cannot Endure on the Surface of Europa
Any potential organisms must live deep within the icy surface
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 26th, 2012
Double-Slit Experiment Carried Out with 114-Atom Molecules
This is the largest iteration of the famous experiment ever made
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 23rd, 2012
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Do Not Exist
The cause of weird results pointing at other conclusions was identified
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 31st, 2012
Solid-State Materials Can Produce Superfluorescence
The hypothesis was recently confirmed in a new study
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 25th, 2012
Light, Nanoscale Speakers Could Revolutionize Electricity Studies
The two could be used to detect very weak electrical signals
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 17th, 2012
Metamaterials Could Use Light to Stick to Other Surfaces
Physicists propose the existence of a new force inside these materials
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 9th, 2012
Macroscopic Quantum State System Possibly Created
Such an achievement was not even thought possible until recently
- Technology & Gadgets
- By Sebastian Pop
- December 21st, 2011
Quantum Computing Switches to Holograms, Easier to Make
The cost of building such systems might finally fall to approachable levels
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 5th, 2011
Spin of Electrons on Topological Insulators Can Be Controlled
Experts use light to change the elementary particles' spins
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 23rd, 2011
Optical Computers Are Nearly Upon Us
MIT researchers eliminate major obstacle in developing such devices
- Physics / Chemistry
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 22nd, 2011
Weird, New Behavior of Light Detected
Photons streaming through tight openings behave unexpectedly
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 21st, 2011
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Confirmed Yet Again
New studies were conducted based on scientific proposals