Discovery could lead to longer battery life, more memory in electronics New theoretical physics research reveals rare materials that possess both controllable magnetic and electric polarizat... Read more
Spinach and Nanodiamonds? Popeye, the comic book hero, swears by it as do generations of parents who delight their children with spinach. Of course, today it is known that the vegetable is n... Read more
Quantum communication systems offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Unlike classical encryption, which is used to send secure data over networks today and whose security dep... Read more
A good scientist must be willing to be wrong. In 1964, the occasionally enigmatic but always energetic physicist, Dr. Richard Feynman gave a lecture at Cornell University to a packed hall of... Read more
“A completely new way may open up of using heat in microchips in a beneficial way instead of having to dissipate it by cooling” Since its invention 50 years ago, laser light has... Read more
A preference for recent advances Tech investor Yuri Milner, who shook the physics world two months ago by dishing out $27 million to the nine inaugural awardees of his Fundamental Physics Pr... Read more