Applied Physics

What's 3 Billion Times Colder Than Deep Space? Fermions Produced By Special Unitary Spin Rates

Quantum magnetism exploration is getting a boost from atoms about 3 billion times colder than interstellar space. Space is cold, of course, but is warmed by the afterglow from the Big Bang. A Kyoto team instead used lasers to cool its fermions, atoms of yt ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2022 - 11:27am

Solids That Are Also Liquids May Bring Solar Car Batteries Into This Century

Superionic materials, needed for solid-state electrolytes that could replace the liquid organic electrolytes in current electric car batteries and make them safe for mass usage, face challenges in going from conception to production. Lithium ions are very ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2023 - 5:01am

Reported Failure To Reproduce Superconductivity, But Replication Of Apparent Diamagnetism, At Room Temperature In LK-99

L ast week it was claimed that a material that would be superconducting at  normal pressure has been found.  This substance known as LK-99 was alleged to be superconducting at normal atmospheric pressure and "room temperatures.  This would mean being ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 5 2023 - 9:55am

The Mystery Of Glassy Liquid Transitions

Light is the most famous thing that is two distinct entities at once- a wave and a particle- but glass is nearly as mysterious. And not well understood. We think of glass as being transparent and rigid, is a complex and intriguing material but that is only ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2023 - 12:10pm

Halloween Science: What Elastic Response In Chewing Gum May Mean For Bioactive Ingredients

A new study sought to analyze the chewing nature of four types of gum bases and along the way determine bubbling capacity also. Gums are generally oils, resins, and elastomers generally held in pleasant form by the gum base.  So gum base is important to m ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 16 2023 - 2:46pm

A Simple Design of High-frequency Seismic Data Resolution Filter

Seismic sections are usually subjected to some processing sequence for noise reduction. If the noise has appreciable energy outside the frequency range of the useful signal, these sequences are effective and if accurate NMO and STATIC are done, data clust ...

Blog Post - Daisi Komolafe - Apr 2 2024 - 2:05pm

Electric Cars Match Gas And Diesel For Longevity

An analysis of 300 million United Kingdom Ministry of Transport test records, which tries to estimate the ‘health’ of every vehicle on UK roads between 2005 and 2022 and determine potential vehicle longevity (basically survival rates for different powertra ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2025 - 4:00am

Yankee Stadium- The House That Bernoulli Built

Quick, who was the feared hitter that legendary baseball numbers guru Bill James says lost more career home runs due to playing in his home park than any player in history?    ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2025 - 8:54am

Strange Climate Math- Driving Is Better For Pollution Than Walking

A recent UN study, Livestock's Long Shadow, basically says you can help the environment more by driving than walking. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2025 - 9:20pm

Lemons To Lemonade Is Like Soda Cans To Hydrogen

An old adage goes that 'if life gives you lemons, make lemonade', which basically means turn something negative into something positive.  Pollution is bad but a new study shows that it may some day be a net win for energy. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 5 2025 - 4:00am