Concepts
Oak Ridge Lab Converts Plastic Waste to Fuel with Molten Salts
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method using aluminum-based molten salts to convert polyethylene plastic into gasoline.
#Concepts
Every Physics story tagged Concepts.
Concepts
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.
Concepts
Topology Imprinting Generates Structured Light in Nonlinear Optics
A 2026 study in IEEE Photonics Journal details topology imprinting, a method that transfers the spatial topology of light from a fundamental frequency to its generated harmonics.
Concepts
Global Survey Finds No Consensus on Universe's Biggest Questions
A worldwide survey of physicists reveals deep divisions on dark matter, quantum gravity, and cosmology, with only two concepts winning majority support.
Concepts
Atom Interferometer on Space Station Tests Weak Equivalence Principle
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.
Concepts
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.
Concepts
Temperature Weakens Spin-Orbit Coupling in Topological Insulators
A study finds increasing temperature weakens spin-orbit coupling in materials like Bi2Se3.
Concepts
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.
Concepts
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.
Concepts
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 insulator.
Concepts
Microwave SQUID multiplexing proposed for cryogenic calorimeter arrays
Researchers propose adapting microwave SQUID multiplexing to read out large arrays of massive cryogenic calorimeters.