An artist’s impression of VFTS 243 in the Tarantula Nebula. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada. eso.org/public/images/eso2210a/ This week, we reported on the birth throes of black holes, the questionable assertions of a…
Experimental scheme. Credit: Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02472-6 Strong field quantum optics is a rapidly emerging research topic, which merges elements of non-linear photoemission rooted in strong field physics with…
French entrepreneur Sylvain Chiron says he’s excited to see the Earth from space, “in all its fragility and beauty” He arrived in Texas, tried on his flight suit for the…
Virginia Tech physicist C. Nadir Kaplan (at left) and doctoral candidate Chinmay Katke (right) discovered a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance of soft devices, such as agile…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station has been delayed again due to a technical issue, NASA said Friday. The launch…
Klara Wolf (left) samples Actic phytoplankton in Kongsfjorden, Ny Ålesund, Svalbard. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Paolo Verzone The basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton, responds to…
Schematic of the experimental set-up. The ion beam is directed onto a free-standing graphene film in transmission geometry. Credit: Nano Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00356 Two-dimensional materials such as graphene promise…
Au@Cu2-xS core-shell particles for rapid and reversible control of plasmons and analysis of the mechanism. Credit: Science China Press Photonic computing, storage, and communication are the foundation for future photonic…
Energy shift of the C=O π* peak in the O K-edge XAS spectrum of PNIPAM versus MeOH molar fraction. Spectra were obtained in aqueous MeOH solutions. Cononsolvency occurs in the…
With their newly developed method, chemists can precisely incorporate a difluoromethyl group (highlighted in light blue) regioselectively, i.e. at certain positions, into pyridine rings – either in the para-position (yellow…
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