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Oak Ridge Lab Converts Plastic Waste to Fuel with Molten
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method using aluminum-based molten salts to convert polyethylene plastic into gasoline and
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Microbes Could Survive at Lunar South Pole for Days
NASA and University of Maryland researchers found bacteria and fungi from human skin could survive in shadowed lunar polar niches for up to seven days
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Topology Imprinting Generates Structured Light in Nonlinear
A 2026 study in IEEE Photonics Journal details topology imprinting, a method where the spatial structure of light at a fundamental frequency is copied onto
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Building Reproducibility into Moiré Material Research
A Nature Physics perspective argues that reproducibility challenges in moiré material experiments must be addressed from the outset in material growth and
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Atom Interferometer on Space Station Tests Weak Equivalence
A team led by Ming-Sheng Zhan has conducted the first atom-interferometry test of the weak equivalence principle in space, using two rubidium isotopes
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CMS reports hint of rare Higgs decay to Z boson and photon
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has searched for the rare Higgs boson decay into a Z boson and a photon, reporting a signal strength
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Temperature Weakens Spin-Orbit Coupling in Topological
A study finds increasing temperature weakens spin-orbit coupling in materials like Bi2Se3, driving a transition from a topological insulator to a normal
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Platinum Channels Scale Spin-Based Thermoelectric Effect
A research team has embedded nanoscale platinum channels within a magnetic insulator to achieve spin-based thermoelectric conversion in a bulk material, a
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Physicists film exciton formation in organic
A research team has captured the first ultrafast video of an exciton forming and shrinking within 400 femtoseconds after light hits an organic
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Ultrafast electrons reveal strong radiation
Stanford and SLAC researchers used MeV-UED to detect unexpectedly strong ultrafast optical signals in II-VI semiconductors, finding charge carriers form
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Solar sail drag emerges at 75% light speed
A study finds relativistic effects create drag on laser-pushed solar sails at about 75% of light speed, reducing their propulsion efficiency.
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Photonic interface links atom qubits
A Japanese research team has demonstrated a record 10-channel multiplexed quantum photonic interface using an integrated waveguide array.
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FTFT Pythia8 Tune Targets Heavy Flavor
Researchers have developed a new parameter set, FTFT, for the Pythia8 event generator to accurately simulate charm and beauty hadron production in
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Graphene's Floquet State Controlled
Researchers have demonstrated a new method, called harmonic Floquet spectroscopy, to generate and control electrons in a light-dressed Floquet topological
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Molten salt method unlocks metal nitride
University of Chicago chemists have developed a synthesis method to create nanocrystals from stubborn metal nitrides, materials previously considered
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New analysis reaffirms universe's
Astrophysicists have countered a 2025 claim of a cosmic slowdown, reaffirming that evidence for an accelerating universe driven by dark energy is strong.
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Flying-focus lasers extend electron surf
A new flying-focus laser technique overcomes a key distance limitation in laser wakefield accelerators, allowing electrons to be propelled over longer