These mini lightning bolts have been known for millennia. Understanding static electricity at the atomic level opens the door for new technologies – as well as ways to cut down on the tiny zaps.
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With current modes up against their limits, we need new data storage solutions. Tiny defects in diamonds’ atomic structure might turn them into a new medium for memory.
How Messrs Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz could hold the key to the future.
The Nobel Prize-winning research on neutrinos is expected to push the boundaries of science and technology.
The field of plasmonics has implications for integrated circuits, biosensors, other light-based technologies – even invisibility cloaks.
There’s a place in Melbourne where particles routinely whiz around at 99.99998% the speed of light – the Australian Synchrotron. By accelerating charged particles to release extremely intense light known…
Scientists at the University of Manchester have harnessed a process called X-Ray fluorescence to read the blotted final…
When two gold nanoparticle spheres are pushed sufficiently close together, the gap between them acquires a red colour, as…
A new time-keeping device based on the orbit of a neutron around an atomic nucleus has been proposed by scientists at the…
Researchers at Ohio State University have used a new ultrafast camera to capture the first ever image of two atoms vibrating…
A decade-long experiment has discovered electrons are “rounder” than expected. The experiment looked at electrons inside…
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