• Scientists develop super-strong metal for next tech frontier

  6 hours ago

  The technological future of everything from cars and jet engines to oil rigs, along with the gadgets, appliances and public utilities comprising the internet of things, will depend on microscopic sensors.

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  How minimizing fluid friction can make oceangoing vessels more fuel-efficient and reduce harmful emissions

  8 hours ago

  Imagine walking from one side of a swimming pool to the other. Each step takes great effort—that's what makes water aerobics such effective physical exercise.

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  The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science

  9 hours ago

  With leading corporations now investing in highly expensive and complex infrastructures to unleash the power of quantum technologies, INRS researchers have achieved a breakthrough in a light-weight photonic system created ...

• Vortex-antivortex pairs found in magnetic trilayers

  9 hours ago

  A international team of researchers has discovered magnetic vortex-antivortex pairs arising from correlated electron spins in a newly engineered trilayer material. The discovery could advance memory cells and points to the ...

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  Four new beamlines get go ahead at the ESRF, opening new frontiers in X-ray science

  11 hours ago

  The ESRF Council, representing the 22 partner nations of the ESRF, gave the green light for the construction and commissioning of four new beamlines from 2018-2022. The beamlines are designed to exploit the enhanced performance ...

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  Seeing the forest through the trees with a new LiDAR system

  Jun 27, 2017

  Shortly after lasers were first developed in the 1960s, LiDAR—whose name originated as a combination of "light" and "radar"—capitalized on the newly unique precision they offered for measuring both time and distance. ...

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  X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy under real ambient pressure conditions

  Jun 27, 2017

  Researchers at Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells, University of Electro-Communications, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, and JASRI (Japan Synchrotron ...

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  Solution to distortion effect in STM scanning

  Jun 27, 2017

  STM scanning experiments on poorly conducting materials are challenging, and can cause a distortion effect. A new model corrects for this effect, allowing physicists to better study materials in their quest to understand ...

• Using mathematical methods to study complex biological networks

  Jun 27, 2017

  Complex biological processes such as metabolism often involve thousands of compounds coupled by chemical reactions. These process chains are described by researchers as chemical reaction networks. Researchers from the University ...

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  Digital to analog convertors generate bipolar voltages when coupled to a polarity switchable double flux amplifier

  Jun 27, 2017

  Digital to analog convertors (DACs) are devices that convert digital, typically binary signals to outputs in the form of voltage. The voltage generated can then be used to produce light, as in video and television or sound, ...