Tag: Physics

STEVE and other aurora-like glows perplex scientists with their complex physics

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From the pristine dark of his backyard in rural Alberta, Canada, Alan Dyer has taken stunning photos of a rare sky glow called STEVE. To capture this ribbon of mauve, he and other citizen scientists typically let their cameras collect light for seconds at a time. Long exposures smear out STEVE’s finer details in favor of making its color pop. But when a STEVE stretched over his house one August night in 2022, Dyer tried a different approach.

He zoomed

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Twisting Physics: MITs Durchbruch bei der Quasikristall-Supraleitung

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Von Elizabeth A. Thomson, Materialforschungslabor
18. Oktober 2023

MIT-Forscher kombinieren Twistronik mit Quasikristallen und enthüllen so eine neue Methode zum Verständnis der Supraleitung und vielversprechender Anwendungen in der Elektronik.

Eine neue flexible Plattform könnte rätselhafte Materialien produzieren und zu neuen Studien exotischer Phänomene führen.

In einer Forschung, die das Interesse an einer rätselhaften Materialklasse namens Quasikristalle wecken könnte, MIT Wissenschaftler und Kollegen haben eine relativ einfache und flexible Möglichkeit entdeckt, neue atomar dünne Versionen zu erstellen, die auf wichtige Phänomene

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Technique to see the ultrafast world of electrons wins 2023 physics Nobel

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Glimpses of the ultrafast world of electrons are changing scientists’ vision of the inner workings of atoms and molecules. The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics goes to three physicists who illuminated this realm with ultrashort pulses of light, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 3.

Physicists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier will split the 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million) prize, awarded “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of

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