But the development of such clocks has been challenging as thorium-229, one of the isotopes used in nuclear clocks, is rare, radioactive, and extremely costly to acquire in the su ...

Being lightweight is essential for space structures, particularly for tools used on already small, lightweight satellites.

A breakthrough in decoding the growth process of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a 2D material, and its nanostructures on ...

Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed an ultrathin material that conducts electricity better than copper and ...

In quantum computers, information is often carried by single photons and picked up by structures named superconducting ...

In-plane magnetic fields are responsible for inducing anomalous Hall effect in certain films, report researchers. By studying how these fields change electronic structures, the team discovered a large ...

To enhance their practicality, a team led by Jun Ye, a professor of physics at CU Boulder, and Eric Hudson, a professor at UCLA, used thin films of thorium tetrafluoride (ThF4) to build nuclear ...

The sticky stuff helps release these thin films of laboratory-made diamond from their backing, like peeling off a fruit roll-up. Diamond has many special properties. It dissipates heat extremely ...

Observation of this transition in vapour-deposited thin films, which require only minuscule amounts of 229 Th, opens up a possible route to the widespread use of portable nuclear clocks.

Below, I’ll project the films that I believe have the best shot at making the Oscars’ top category. First, a disclaimer: Few of the groups that have weighed in so far include actual Oscar ...

In “A Complete Unknown,” the new film directed by James Mangold, a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) impulsively slips into a movie theatre with his girlfriend, Sylvie (Elle Fanning), to ...