Polar rain auroras: scientists explain this spectacular solar event
An aurora illuminated the entire polar cap during a solar wind lull.
Tag: electron
What is the Electron Cloud Model: this is how electrons inside an atom really behave
From the ancient Greeks to quantum mechanics, the model of the atom has gone through many iterations.
How Black Holes and Neutron Stars Shine
Black holes and neutron stars are the densest and most mysterious objects in the universe, and researchers may have figured ...
For the first time, researchers show what an electron actually looks like
Electrons are weird, but we're starting to understand them a bit better.
Lifetime expectancy for electrons just went up — and it’s a lot
You know how the old saying goes, that "diamonds are forever," and giving your significant other a piece of diamond ...
Electron movement tracked and controled in a molecule for the first time
A team of scientists from Switzerland, Russia, Denmark, Belgium and Canada has for the first time demonstrated that it is ...
Researchers devise first electric circuit with a magnetic insulator, which was thought to be impossible
A team of Dutch and Belgian researchers demonstrated an electric circuit coupled with a magnetic insulator. The circuit uses so-called ...
Record breaking energies achieved in a compact particle accelerator 3 million times smaller than the LHC
With the help of the most powerful laser in the world, scientists have achieved the highest energies yet in a ...
Star Trek-like shield discovered in Earth’s orbit shelters our planet from ‘killer electrons’
Many thousands of miles above our planet's surface, electrons whiz through close to the speed of light. These electrons can ...
Hybrid Semiconductors might Smash PV Efficiency through the Roof
A team at University of Cambridge have harvested so-called ‘dark’ spin-triplet excitons with close to 100% efficiency, a breakthrough achievement which ...
New material allows ultra-thin, transparent solar cells
Austrlian researchers have successfully developed transparent, ultra-thin, foldable solar cells.
Excition fission model could vastly improve solar cell efficiency
Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry (left), and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering (right). Photo: MIT The most basic ...
Mass of the electron re-weighed for a precision of parts per trillion
Typically in physics, your calculations and such are as precise as your use of constants. Meaning, if you have a ...
Physics premiere: synthetic magnetism used to control light – new generation of electronics possible
Photons are slippery fellas. Since they don't have any electrons, they're free to run through any matter, no matter how ...
Spintronics breakthrough at IBM could lead to new generation memory storage
Spintronics, or spin transport electronics, is a sort of emerging technology that scientists have been studying for a while in ...
Captured: first ever images of atom moving inside a molecule
A Romanian scientist working at the University of Ohio captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule by ...
The Electron is round. Incredibly round
There are still many things we still don't understand about the electron; only recently, a team from the Imperial College ...
Paper + Microscope = amazing art
Paper is just paper, right ? Nothing fancy, nothing special, just plain old paper that we see and probably ...
Antimatter captured at CERN
For physicists, antimatter is probably the most valuable substance ever; the slightest bit of it could provide extremely valuable information ...
LHC produces first results
Since the Large Hadron Collider went back in business, all sort of rumors have been circling the scientific circles (and ...
