Applied Physics

What Is A 2.5D Material And Will It Make Future Tech Possible?

There are three dimensions in the known universe. Fiction authors like to call time a dimension but it really isn't, it is just a way to look at the other three. Even if you don't remember what you ate for lunch yesterday the universe knows you w ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2022 - 10:36am

Space Is Cold, The Linac Coherent Light Source X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Is Colder

A half-mile-long stretch of tunnel in California is now colder than most of the universe. It contains a new superconducting particle accelerator, part of an upgrade project to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser, one of the las ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2022 - 11:47am

Thermocouples And Spectral Emissivity Data For High Temperatures

The Journal of Volcanology and Geothe ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Aug 8 2022 - 7:36pm

The Time Reversal Technique Improves The Precision Of Atomic Clocks

A recently published paper ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Aug 10 2022 - 10:06pm

Pythagoras Undone: Baseball Bats Even The Musically Pretentious Can Appreciate

Because I have played guitar some 30 years, I have always been interested in guitar construction.   I have multiple guitars because they all have different tones and are used for different things- that doesn't always make sense to people because a gui ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 13 2022 - 11:49am

Faster Charging May Make Electric Cars Usable For The Masses

People who buy electric cars don't understand a lot about energy generation. They may believe that solar panels and wind are providing the energy, but even after $3 trillion in subsidies, those have not changed the percentage of energy generated by ma ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2022 - 3:05pm

What's 3 Billion Times Colder Than Deep Space? Fermions Produced By Special Unitary Spin Rates

Quantum magnetism exploration is getting a boost from atoms about 3 billion times colder than interstellar space. Space is cold, of course, but is warmed by the afterglow from the Big Bang. A Kyoto team instead used lasers to cool its fermions, atoms of yt ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2022 - 11:27am

Solids That Are Also Liquids May Bring Solar Car Batteries Into This Century

Superionic materials, needed for solid-state electrolytes that could replace the liquid organic electrolytes in current electric car batteries and make them safe for mass usage, face challenges in going from conception to production. Lithium ions are very ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2023 - 5:01am

Reported Failure To Reproduce Superconductivity, But Replication Of Apparent Diamagnetism, At Room Temperature In LK-99

L ast week it was claimed that a material that would be superconducting at  normal pressure has been found.  This substance known as LK-99 was alleged to be superconducting at normal atmospheric pressure and "room temperatures.  This would mean being ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 5 2023 - 9:55am

The Mystery Of Glassy Liquid Transitions

Light is the most famous thing that is two distinct entities at once- a wave and a particle- but glass is nearly as mysterious. And not well understood. We think of glass as being transparent and rigid, is a complex and intriguing material but that is only ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2023 - 12:10pm