Muons spin tales of undiscovered particles
The original experiment measured the spin precession of the muon — i.e., the speed at which its spin changes direction — to be different from the theoretical predictions. Their exper...
Magnonic interferometer paves way toward energy-efficient information processing devices
Although magnon signals have discrete phases that normally cannot be changed continuously, the magnonic interferometer can generate a continuous change of the magnon signal. Controll...
Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifyin...
Integrated simulations answer 20-year-old question in fusion research
Replicated many times, these cold-pulse experiments with their unlikely results defy what is called the standard local model for the turbulent transport of heat and particles in fusi...
Improving mid-infrared imaging and sensing
A new way of taking images in the mid-infrared part of the spectrum, developed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, could enable a wide variety of applications, including thermal ima...
Image: CubeSat micro-pulsed plasma thruster
Credit: ESA/Mars Space This micro-pulsed plasma thruster has been designed for propulsion of miniature CubeSats; its first firing is seen here. The thruster works by pulsing a light...
How birds can detect Earth’s magnetic field
The receptors that sense the Earth’s magnetic field are probably located in the birds’ eyes. Now, researchers at Lund University have studied different proteins in the eyes of zebra ...
Genetic evidence that magnetic navigation guides loggerhead sea turtles: Loggerhead sea turtles that nest on beaches with similar magnetic fields are genetically similar
Genetic evidence that magnetic navigation guides loggerhead sea turtles: Loggerhead sea turtles that nest on beaches with similar magnetic fields are genetically similar. ScienceDail...
Faster analysis of medical images
In a pair of upcoming conference papers, MIT researchers describe a machine-learning algorithm that can register brain scans and other 3-D images more than 1,000 times more quickly u...
Experiments of the Russian scientists in space lead to a new way of 3D-bioprinting
Thanks to the research of magnetic levitation in the conditions of microgravity, a new technology for 3D printing of biological tissues was developed. There are ways in which biologi...
Electromagnetic wizardry: Wireless power transfer enhanced by backward signal
Credit: Alex Krasnok et al./Physical Review Letters An international research team including scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and ITMO University has p...
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox observed in many-particle system for the first time
How precisely can we predict the results of measurements on a physical system? The paradox is that an observer can use measurements on system A to make more precise statements about ...
Earth’s magnetosphere
Without the magnetosphere, the relentless action of these solar particles could strip the Earth of its protective layers, which shield us from the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation. The So...
Democratizing science: Making neuroscience experiments easier to share, reproduce
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a set of tools to make one critical area of big data research – that of our central nervous system – easier to share. In a ...
Deep brain stimulation: A new treatment approach in patients with multiple sclerosis
A pilot study has shown that treatment with deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS) significantly reduces symptoms of fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The resu...
Construction set of magnon logic extended: Magnon spin currents can be controlled via spin valve structure
In the emerging field of magnon spintronics, researchers investigate the possibility to transport and process information by means of so-called magnon spin currents. In a so-called s...
Collimators—the LHC’s bodyguards
Installation of a collimator in the LHC. If even a small fraction of the circulating particles deviates from the precisely set trajectory, it can quench a super-conducting LHC magnet...
CERN Researchers Are Planning to Trap and Truck Antimatter From One Facility to Another
However, antimatter — the less-understood counterpart to the abundant matter that makes up you, me, and the universe — comes with a unique host of qualities, somewhat different from ...
CaloriSMART test system succeeds in magnetocaloric cooling
The CaloriSMART system is a benchtop model system for testing small sample of magnetocaloric, elastocaloric and electrocaloric materials. Credit: Ames Laboratory Researchers at the ...
Calcium-based MRI sensor enables more sensitive brain imaging
Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT neuroscientists have developed a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensor that allows them to monitor neural activity deep withi...
Bogong moths first insect known to use magnetic sense in long-distance nocturnal migration
After a few months of summer dormancy in those cool mountain caves, the moths fly right back to the breeding grounds where they were born. The discovery offers the first reliable evi...
Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies
A University of Washington-led team has now taken this one step further by encoding information using magnets that are just a few layers of atoms in thickness. With the explosive gro...
A new telescope expands Big Bear Solar Observatory’s view of the Sun
Credit: NJIT A solar telescope that captures images of the entire disk of the Sun, monitoring eruptions taking place simultaneously in different magnetic fields in both the photosph...
A new era in fusion research at MIT
This week the Italian energy company Eni, a founding member of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), announced it has reached an agreement with MIT to fund fusion research projects run ...
A better device for measuring electromagnetic radiation: New bolometer is faster, simpler, and covers more wavelengths
We believe that our work opens the door to new types of efficient bolometers based on low-dimensional materials, says Englund, the paper’s senior author. He says the new system, base...