Applied Physics

Collectors,museums and art dealers face a lot of problems determining origin, authenticity and discovery of forgery of artwork. Experts are easily fooled - but science, not so much. They get help…

There’s a popular YouTube video featuring mathematician Edward Frenkel where he describes how the NSA hacked our emails. It is a backdoor into the National Institute of Standards and Technology…

By now, almost everyone understands computers and that current technologies for writing, storing, and reading information are either charge-based or spin-based. Spin-based devices operate on the…

In my previous article DC Versus AC I discussed how a diode can be used as a rectifier to convert alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC) because the diode allows current to flow in one…

New battery management technology could boost Li-ion capacity by 40%, quadruple recharging cycles Long-life laptop battery the tech industry doesn’t want you to have ? Fed up with the dwindling…

Researchers have used fishing line fiber and sewing thread to create inexpensive artificial muscles.  The inexpensive, artificial muscles generate far more force and power than human or animal…

Goodbye Ohm - Hello Heisenberg Research reported earlier this month shows that electrical resistance in nanoribbons of epitaxial graphene changes in discrete steps following quantum mechanical…

The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - could lead to much…

Peregrine falcons are one of the world's fastest birds, reaching up to 200 miles per hour when diving. Scientists are studying the body shape and wing contour of the bird to better understand how…

Stampedes occur often, and not just in wild animal herds. Previously, physicists developed numerous models of crowd evacuation dynamics based on disasters such as the yearly Muslim Hajj or of the…