Convention solar cells have a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 100%: for every photon incident on the cell, they generate one photoexcited electron....

A memristor that uses changes in ion concentrations and mechanical deformations to store information has been developed by researchers at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland....

Tim Palmer says that we must pool our resources to produce high-resolution climate models that societies can use, before it is too late <a href="https://platoblockchain.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/why-we-still-need-a-cern-for-climate-change-physics-world-1.jpg"...

Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of the universe’s total matter, and cosmologists believe it played a major role in the formation of...

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NASA is seeking alternative designs for its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, which is meant to bring back soil and rocks gathered by the...

Stacking layers of two-dimensional materials on top of each other and varying the twist angle between them massively alters their electronic properties. The trick...

Researchers in the US and Canada have detected an effect known as quantum Barkhausen noise for the first time. The effect, which comes about...

Purpose-Led Publishing is a coalition of three not-for-profit scientific publishers: IOP Publishing, AIP Publishing and the American Physical Society. The coalition launched earlier...

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A nuclear clock based on thorium-229 is one step closer now that researchers in Germany and Austria have shown that they can put nuclei...

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