The range of applications for ultracold molecular systems has grown impressively over recent years to include interstellar chemistry, spectroscopy, and arguably most excitingly, quantum computing. O… [+2231 chars]
image: Space robots play essential roles in the construction, operation, and maintenance of space stations. Target tracking algorithms for space robots need to filter noise for precise functioning. H… [+7155 chars]
image: The lab of Mikel Holcomb, associate professor of physics and astronomy, contains an optics table with an ultrafast laser. It is designed to pump a lot of power into a sample in order to see wh… [+4444 chars]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists recently obtained high-precision thermodynamic data on warm dense nitrogen at extreme conditions that could lead to a better understanding of … [+5076 chars]
Scientific investigations are becoming increasingly collaborative resulting in growing lists of contributors to studies that can be time consuming to organize when formatting journal title pages. Her… [+6707 chars]
Rice University physicists are available to discuss the July 4 anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery and the recent restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for a third round of experiments. T… [+3340 chars]
SpaceX and NASA have set a new date for the already-delayed CRS-25 resupply mission that will send a robotic Dragon capsule to the International Space Station aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA now says … [+2126 chars]
The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) – the most potent greenhouse gases – into the atmosphere from African lakes are reassessed in a study undertaken by the Laboratory of Chemical … [+4312 chars]
Carbon dioxide or CO2 can potentially be used as a feedstock to be converted into carbon-neutral "solar fuels" that store energy from the sun. But for them to be competitive with fossil fuels, the ch… [+5540 chars]
They're not too cuddly, but bearded dragons are working their way into the hearts and homes of American families. And now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are ensuring that… [+4111 chars]
Illustration of the structure of monolayer polymeric C60. Credit: Ella Maru Studio Synthetic carbon allotropes are intriguing due to their exceptional properties and potential applications. Scientis… [+2018 chars]
Chinese researchers may have found a new approach to treat cancer by using a plasma treatment to induce apoptosis, the death of cancer cells, without any obvious side effect to normal cells.The catch… [+2931 chars]
