In the corridors of academia, there are rare luminaries who can seamlessly bridge multiple scientific disciplines. Professor Leon Cooper is one of them. A Nobel laureate in physics and a …
The main decay modes of decay (left) and the minimum partial half-lives (right), decay, + Decay, EC and SF. (a,b) Experimental data in NUBASE2020. (cf) Results predicted by RF; WS4 …
Image source: CC0 Public Domain Animals move amazing distances in search of food. Caribou, reindeer and wolves cover impressive distances over land, while seabirds fly unparalleled distances. Arctic terns travel …
C2H4 Rotation barrier potential energy surface calculated from CASSCF(12,12)/ACSE, CCSD(T), PBE-RDMFT, SCAN-RDMFT, PBE-DFT, SCAN-DFT and CASSCF(12,12)/tPBE using cc – pVDZ basis set. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.243003 Like …
Graphical representation of stacked, twisted cuprate superconductors, with accompanying data in background. Image credit: Lucy Yip, Yoshi Saito, Alex Cui, Frank Zhao Superconductors have intrigued physicists for decades. But these …
Caltech professor Paul Bellan’s two-year study of plasma jets has revealed unexpected behavior in “cold” plasma. Beran initially conducted a theoretical analysis of the collision avoidance mechanism of electron acceleration, …
Sketch of a trilobite Rydberg molecule. A Sketch of a Rydberg molecule. The coordinates of Rydberg electrons (blue) and ground-state atoms (green) relative to the Rydberg core (red) are indicated …
R-process nucleosynthesis.Image credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The universe’s first stars were terrifying beasts. Composed only of hydrogen and helium, they may be 300 times more massive than the Sun. …
Imagine using your phone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and diseases. This sounds like the imagination of an overly optimistic science fiction writer. But …
Artist’s impression of an active supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the early universe. Pop III stars in the early universe were likely the precursors of supermassive black holes. Image source: …