sciencedaily.com / .sciencedaily-com-technology / Page 6

Physicists have discovered a surprising new "Island of Inversion" in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions--where atomic nuclei abandon their usual orderly ...

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA's DART mission revealed faint streaks on the moon Dimorphos--evidence of slow "cosmic snowballs" drifting from its parent asteroid, Didymos. The discovery ...

Solid-state batteries could be safer and more energy-dense than today's lithium-ion technology, but finding materials that allow ions to move quickly through solid electrolytes has been difficult. Researchers developed a machine learning pipeline ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet--and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this "gravity hole" to slow, deep movements of rock inside ...

A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin material. When cooled, the material forms tiny magnetic vortices before transitioning into a second ordered magnetic state- .. ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a gigantic, flat sheet of matter surrounded by huge empty ...

Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic vibrations acting like a "molecular catapult." In experiments lasting just 18 femtoseconds, researchers at the University of ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside computer chips for the first time. Using an advanced electron microscopy method, the team mapped the exact positions of atoms ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way's core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments near the central black hole. Stretching across 650 light-years, the survey maps the hidden fuel for star formation in ...

A new ultrathin photodetector from Duke University can sense light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and generate a signal in just 125 picoseconds, making it the fastest pyroelectric detector ever built. The breakthrough could power next ...