Seesaw Shenanigans

20 April 2024

Mathematics - Research News

A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?

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When injecting pure spin into chiral materials, direction matters

Physics General News

03 May 2024

The direction in which spin information is injected into chiral materials affects its ability to pass through them. These chiral 'gateways' could be used to design energy-efficient spintronic devices for data storage, communication and computing....

New study is first to use statistical physics to corroborate 1940s social balance theory

Mathematics - Research News

03 May 2024

Most people have heard the famous phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Now, Northwestern University researchers have used statistical physics to confirm the theory that underlies this famous axiom. The study, "Proper network randomization is key to assessing social balance," is published in...

Aligned peptide 'noodles' could enable lab-grown biological tissues

Nanotechnology News

03 May 2024

A team of chemists and bioengineers at Rice University and the University of Houston have achieved a significant milestone in their work to create a biomaterial that can be used to grow biological tissues outside the human body....

Tweaking isotopes sheds light on promising approach to engineer semiconductors

Nanotechnology News

03 May 2024

Research led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical and electronic properties, possibly opening the way to new and advanced designs with the...

Physicists create an optical tweezer array of individual polyatomic molecules for the first time

Quantum Physics News

03 May 2024

A team of physicists at Harvard University has succeeded in trapping individual polyatomic molecules in optical tweezer arrays for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they achieved their feat and the possible uses for it. A Research Briefing also...

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