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NASA's future Habitable Worlds Observatory will analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets, looking for signatures of alien life. Read more about this mission. The post The Habitable Worlds Observatory aims to spot alien life first appeared on EarthSky.

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Samsung has long been one of the leading developers of semiconductors and processors, including being the first foundry to produce 3nm chips for its mobile devices. The...

The energy of the vacuum should have a gravitational effect on large atoms. But physicists' attempts to measure it have puzzlingly come up empty.

A gold-plated racetrack and fuel from a scanning tunneling microscope.

Our estimates of the size of a neutrino span from smaller than an atomic nucleus to as large as a few metres, but now we are starting to narrow down its true value

Although radiation sounds scary, it isn't necessarily harmful. Here's what to know about the four types.

A spin-triplet pair density wave is discovered in the candidate topological superconductor UTe2 using superconductive scanning tunnelling microscopy tips.

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been in the news frequently lately, with many companies releasing products that include the chip fabricator's semiconductors and process nodes. The...

This crystal lattice consists of a large number of unit cells with an identical atomic arrangement. In the elementary adiabatic picture, the motions of electrons in the crystal follow the motion of the atomic nuclei instantly, i.e., atomic nuclei and electrons are moving as a single entity. While this physical picture is valid for the inner, so-called core electrons of an atom it fails for the valence electrons,…

Quantum plasmonics is the study of quantum properties of light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale. While intriguing, they are difficult to regulate on account of the lack of proper surface spaces to reversibly actuate sub-1 nanometer gaps. In the field of extreme nanophotonics, researchers have shown how nanogap plasmons can support reliable field enhancements to provide unique opportunities to access…

NASA is helping the European Space Agency develop space telescopes that can detect gravitational waves caused when black holes merge and when other cosmic events occur.

To date, ceramic scientists have devised various strategies to impede grain coarsening. The utilization of nano-sized precursor powder can not only facilitate the densification process, but also yields bulk ceramics with reduced grain sizes compared with micron-sized precursor powder.

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna could discover gigantic ripples in spacetime from merging supermassive black holes and more

Finding and studying Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars is critical to understand whether we are alone in the universe. To study such planets and assess if they can sustain life, it is necessary to directly image them. However, these planets are difficult to observe, since light from the host star hides them with its glare.

"We aren't going to see little green men but rather spectral signatures of these key chemicals, or what we call biosignatures."

Pico IV is available to IV Therapy Centers across the US as a new way for customers to enjoy the benefits of CBD.

Optical imaging and metrology techniques are key tools for research rooted in biology, medicine and nanotechnology. While these techniques have recently become increasingly advanced, the resolutions they achieve are still significantly lower than those attained by methods using focused beams of electrons, such as atomic-scale transmission electron spectroscopy and cryo-electron tomography.

A single-element ferroelectric state is observed in a black phosphorus-like bismuth layer, in which the ordered charge transfer and the regular atom distortion between sublattices happen simultaneously and ferroelectric switching is further visualized experimentally.