In the new work, Khan and colleagues found that the effective resistivity of non-crystalline films of niobium phosphide (NbP) decreases dramatically as the film thickness is reduced. Indeed, the ...

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 ...

Solid-state clock Illustration of how thorium atoms are vaporized (bottom) and then deposited in a thin film on the substrate ...

Landmine detectors based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance could reduce the regular occurrence of false positives that hamper ...

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To shed new light on this question, Santoro’s team built upon their previous analysis of functional MRI (fMRI) data, which identify brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow.

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, have developed a new method to recycle the valuable semiconductor colloidal ...

From squirting cucumbers to cosmic stamps, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year. Here is our pick of ...

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From proton therapy firsts to tumour-killing quantum dots, Tami Freeman shares her pick of this year’s healthcare innovations ...