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Economics & Business Feb 19, 2024

What's behind the collapse in the price of nickel and how can the industry survive?

Australia's nickel industry has been granted access to billions of dollars in federal funding as well as relief from royalty payments after a collapse in the global price of nickel that threatens thousands of jobs.

Quantum Physics Feb 16, 2024

Diamond quantum memory with Germanium vacancy exceeds coherence time of 20 ms

The color centers of diamond are the focus of an increasing number of research studies, due to their potential for developing quantum technologies. Some works have particularly explored the use of negatively-charged group-IV ...

General Physics Jan 25, 2024

Team accomplishes precise measurements of the heaviest atoms

An international research team has successfully conducted ultra-precise X-ray spectroscopic measurements of helium-like uranium. The team, which includes researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Helmholtz ...

General Physics Jan 22, 2024

Unlocking the secrets of the universe through neutrinoless double beta decay

The discovery that neutrinos have mass was groundbreaking. However, their absolute mass remains unknown. Neutrinoless double beta decay experiments aim to determine whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles and, if so, ...

General Physics Jan 17, 2024

Discovery of low-lying isomeric states in cesium-136 has applications in particle astrophysics

Large, low-background detectors using xenon as a target medium are widely used in fundamental physics, particularly in experiments searching for dark matter or studying rare decays of atomic nuclei. In these detectors, the ...

Materials Science Jan 11, 2024

Realizing eco-friendly and high-performance thermoelectric materials

In a new study, environmentally benign inverse-perovskites with high energy conversion efficiency have been reported by Tokyo Tech scientists with potential for practical application as thermoelectric materials (TEMs). Addressing ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 10, 2024

Study proposes general A-site alloying strategy to prepare noble metal-occupied MAX phases

Researchers led by Prof. Huang Qing from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with researchers from the Zhejiang Institute of Tianjin University ...

Space Exploration Dec 7, 2023

Psyche gamma-ray instrument hums to life, marking next generation for space exploration

Set 6.5 feet (2 meters) away from NASA's Psyche spacecraft on the tip of a boom, the mission's gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) hummed to life on Nov. 6 for the first time since launch in mid-October. The GRS is one half of the ...

Analytical Chemistry Dec 7, 2023

Threefold coordinated germanium proved in GeO₂ melt

According to a study published in Nature Communications, threefold coordinated germanium has been proved for the first time in a germanium dioxide (GeO2) melt, potentially resolving the long-standing debate about the structure ...

Condensed Matter Nov 1, 2023

Strange magnetic material could make computing energy-efficient

A research collaboration co-led by EPFL has uncovered a surprising magnetic property of an exotic material that might lead to computers that need less than one-millionth of the energy required to switch a single bit.

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