New Molecule Shows Promise in Slowing COVID
A molecule equipped with hooks that can grip and disable the virus’s pesky protease demonstrates promising potential in combatting infections. Scientists have engineered a molecule…
A molecule equipped with hooks that can grip and disable the virus’s pesky protease demonstrates promising potential in combatting infections. Scientists have engineered a molecule…
Through gold nuclei collisions at varying energies, physicists have found that the creation of quark-gluon plasma—an exotic state of matter—halts at the lowest collision energy…
Small Change Brings Big Gain in Performance for Solid-State Battery Electrolyte Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have doubled the charging speed of solid-state batteries…
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have used two-dimensional condensed matter physics to understand the quark interactions in neutron stars, simplifying the study of these densest…
Analysis of lightweight nuclei emerging from gold ion collisions offers insight into primordial matter phase changes. Physicists analyzing data from gold ion smashups at the…
Researchers have uncovered new properties in excitons of tungsten disulfide semiconductors, allowing them to track different quantum states with a novel technique. These findings question…
New Insights on the Interplay of Electromagnetism and the Weak Nuclear Force Nuclear theorists have discovered a major effect in neutron decay related to weak…
Particle accelerators, machines that rapidly propel charged particles like protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons to study their collisions, have deepened our understanding of the universe,…
Researchers decode the chemical profile of tantalum surface oxides to enhance understanding of loss mechanisms and to boost the performance of qubits. Whether it’s baking…
Particle accelerators, machines that speed up elementary particles, are pivotal in various sectors, including science, product development, healthcare, and national security. Utilized in over 30,000…
Scientists’ calculations indicate that bottomonium mesons, formed by a bottom quark and its antimatter counterpart, require temperatures above 5.8 trillion degrees Celsius to melt. This…
Neutrons are subatomic particles, with a neutral charge and slightly more mass than protons, found in the nucleus of every atom except hydrogen. When not…
Scientists have taken a significant step forward in the study of the properties of quarks and gluons, the particles that make up atomic nuclei, by…
Protons are positively charged subatomic particles found in every atomic nucleus, determining atomic and baryon numbers. Also referred to as nucleons or hadrons, they consist…
Particle collisions offer a new way to study interactions of hyperon particles with ordinary nuclear building blocks, potentially giving insight into the properties of neutron…
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully used the world’s most powerful laser to simulate and study pressure-driven ionization, a process vital to understanding the…
New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists reveals that human activities are undeniably altering the thermal structure of Earth’s atmosphere. By expanding climate “fingerprinting”…
The cocktail of elements in seawater, including hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, and others, is essential for life on Earth. However, this intricate chemical makeup poses a…