A donut-shaped magnetic confinement device called a tokamak is one of the leading designs for a working fusion power generator, with many such experiments running worldwide. Credit: Christopher Roux, EUROfusion Consortium, CC BYOur society faces the grand difficulty of offering sustainable, secure, and affordable forms of generating energy while trying to reduce CO2 emissions to net...
Since the dynamics inside a fusion reactor are extremely complicated, the walls may melt.Image credit: Max Planck Institute of Plasma physics. Cutaway of a Fusion ReactorA team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) and the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wein) has actually found a way to manage Type-I...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainInvestigators at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have determined the microorganisms most typically discovered in intense oral diseases. Few such research have been done previously, and the group currently wishes that the investigation can deliver much deeper insight into the association in between dental germs and other diseases. The research is released...
Public opinion is shifting to wanting a much more proactive approach to animal well-being rather than a reactive approach to animal cruelty.University of Adelaide specialists asked the Australian public about their perception of the penalties for animal cruelty.The court of public opinionRochelle Morton, a Ph.D. student from the University of Adelaide's School of Animal...
Along each of the three axes of measurement, a mechanical accelerometer is connected to the reference mirror of the atom interferometer, resulting in a classic/quantum hybridization that permits continual acceleration measurement with an ultralow proclivity. Measurements of the three vector components are utilized to determine the acceleration vector in any direction. The sensor is...
Several of the ancient Egyptian branding-irons — actually made of bronze — were too small for large animals like cattle and were probably used to brand human slaves. Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum; (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)A new research study proposes that small branding irons from ancient Egypt were most likely used to mark...
Researchers at Princeton found that a material known as a topological insulator, made from the elements bismuth and bromine, exhibit specialized quantum behaviors normally seen only under extreme experimental conditions of high pressures and temperatures near absolute zero. Credit: Shafayat Hossain and M. Zahid Hasan of Princeton UniversityA new discoveryFor the first time, physicists...
a) Schematic illustration of the Al-Si1−xGex-Al heterostructure after the thermally induced Al-Si1−xGex exchange. b) False-color SEM image showing an actual device. The zoomed-in view shows a schematic of the epitaxially grown Si-Si1−x. Credit: Small (2022). DOI: 10.1002/smll.202204178TU Wien (Vienna) has done well in making a new sort of material usable for chip technology with germanium and silicon....
Scientists showed how MnBi6Te10, shown here in purple (tellurium), blue (bismuth) and green (manganese), can act as a magnetic topological insulator, conducting electrical current (blue) along a “quantum highway” without losing energy. The study revealed that a concerted action of different material defects is key to the quantum electronic properties. Credit: University of ChicagoQuantum...
Credit: © fox17 / stock.adobe.comResearchers at the University of Chicago have found a means to produce a material that resembles plastic yet conducts electricity more like a metal.Like a metal?The research, released on Oct. 26 in Nature, shows how to produce a sort of material wherein the molecular fragments are shuffled and disordered but...
