The Outer Limits: Future Economic Growth in the Face of Diminishing Resource
In 1972, "The Limits to Growth" stated that the Earth's resources cannot support current rates of economic and population growth indefinitely. UC San Diego Professor of Physics Thomas Murphy agrees that our current trajectory is unable to continue much longer. His assessment appears in Nature Physics.
New Physics Law Could Predict Genetic Mutations
Genetic mutations could be predicted before they occur using a new law of physics, according to a study from the University of Portsmouth.
Enriching Science Education with Thin Films
Tiffany Kaspar's work has advanced the discovery and understanding of oxide materials, helping develop electronics, quantum computing, and energy production. She strives to communicate her science to the public.
New AIP Podcast Reveals Untold Histories Behind Scientific Discoveries, Beginning with Climate Change
AIP is launching "Initial Conditions: A Physics History Podcast" on July 21. Weekly episodes will delve into the collections of the Niels Bohr Library & Archives to uncover the unexpected stories behind physics discoveries. Co-hosts Maura Shapiro and Justin Shapiro use their knowledge of science and history to tell the stories that have been overlooked in the history of physics. The first three episodes will examine how climate change was studied in the 20th century and how those debates about climate still resonate today.
Using Holograms to Illuminate De Sitter Space
The holographic principle is used to describe the expanding universe in de Sitter space. It provides a solution to Einstein's general relativity equation with a positive cosmological constant. The proposed model uses a negative cosmological constant to account for gravity on anti-de Sitter space.
Go with the Flow: New Findings About Moving Electricity Could Improve Fusion Devices
PPPL researchers have found that updating a mathematical model to include a physical property known as resistivity could lead to the improved design of doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.
Machine Learning Paves Way for Smarter Particle Accelerators
Scientists have developed a new machine-learning platform that makes the algorithms that control particle beams and lasers smarter than ever before. Their work could help lead to the development of new and improved particle accelerators that will help scientists unlock the secrets of the subatomic world.
Postdoc Extracts Exotic Particle Properties
The 2022 JSA Postdoctoral Prize winner, Arkaitz Rodas, characterizes lesser-known particles to help physicists understand what holds matter together. Rodas will characterize light mesons using computational mathematical tools for his prize-winning project.
Reducing energy consumption: A new test system for passive cooling materials
Passive day cooling is a promising technology for the sustainable reduction of energy consumption. It avoids the heating up of buildings by solar radiation and dissipates accumulated heat without external energy consumption.
Washington State Academy of Sciences Adds Six PNNL Researchers
The Washington State Academy of Sciences added six people from PNNL to its 2022 class of inductees.
A Quantum Wave in Two Crystals
Particles can move as waves along different paths at the same time - this is one of the most important findings of quantum physics.
Novel multi-proton carrier complex as efficient proton conductor at high temperatures
As the world is moving towards more environment-friendly and sustainable sources of energy, fuel cells are receiving a lot of attention.
Sandia Researchers Receive Two EO Lawrence Awards
Sandia National Laboratories pulsed-power physicist Daniel Sinars and quantum information scientist Andrew Landahl have each received 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awards, the U.S. Department of Energy's highest scientific mid-career honor.
Stay Cool, Stay Hydrated, and Stay Up to Date on Climate Science News with These Latest Headlines
The latest research news in Climate Science on Newswise.
Meet Kayla Hernandez: Electrical Engineer Helps Send Particle Beams Into RHIC
Meet Kayla Hernandez: Electrical Engineer Helps Send Particle Beams Into RHIC
Mathematicians Found Optimal Parameters for Self-Service System
RUDN mathematician in collaboration with scientists from Belarus created a mathematical model of a self-service system. The results of the study can help calculating the optimal parameters to ensure maximum profit and users' satisfaction -- for example, customers in stores.
Brass, woodwind instruments emit respiratory particles, study finds
Just like coughing, sneezing, talking and singing, playing wind instruments - particularly those in the brass section - can spread respiratory particles that may carry the COVID-19 virus, according to a Colorado State University study.
Discovery Brings Scientists One Step Closer to Solving Century-Old Cosmic Ray Mystery
For more than a century, astrophysicists have tried to determine the origin of extremely energetic particles, which are up to a million times more energetic than anything achieved by the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland.
Waves in the Maze of No Return
A bad wireless reception, the noise in the radio signal or poor visibility in the fog - all these annoyances have to do with the fact that waves such as visible light or microwave signals are deflected and reflected by numerous disordered obstacles.
Rensselaer Researchers Learn to Control Electron Spin at Room Temperature To Make Devices More Efficient and Faster
As our devices become smaller, faster, more energy efficient, and capable of holding larger amounts of data, spintronics may continue that trajectory. Whereas electronics is based on the flow of electrons, spintronics is based on the spin of electrons.
Room-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation and vortex lasing arrays in artificial quasiparticle lattices
Quantized vortices play a pivotal role in the interpretation of quantum phase transitions and strongly correlated physics involving the underlying confluence of superfluids, Bose-Einstein condensates, and superconductors, thus it is crucial to study quantum vortices and their applications.
Department of Energy Announces $78 Million for Research in High Energy Physics
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $78 million in funding for 58 research projects that will spur new discoveries in high energy physics. The projects--housed at 44 colleges and universities across 22 states--are exploring the fundamental science about the universe that also underlies technological advancements in medicine, computing, energy technologies, manufacturing, national security, and more.
Celebrating CUR Division 2022 Awardees
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) recognizes its divisional award recipients for the first half of 2022. CUR's community aligns across its thirteen divisions. The divisions work to recognize the best of the undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative inquiry community.
PPPL scientists propose solution to a long-puzzling fusion problem
New finding could solve a paradox in spherical tokamak fusion experiments.