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In the heart of the Marais Poitevin regional nature park, the second-largest wetland in France, a scientific team 1 led by a CNRS researcher has demonstrated the ability of clay soils to self-organise into geometric patterns.

A tiny crystal chip which uses terahertz radiation to see clearly through a wide range of materials could find applications in healthcare, biological research, and security screening. Researchers from Scotland and Japan have developed the lightweight superconducting chip, which they say could unlock the full potential of terahertz imaging technologies and lead to the development of more poweful and portable devices.

Nudibranchs create their colourful patterns using structural colours, which they arrange in microscopic dots similar to Impressionist paintings Surprising coloration: Nudibranchs, a type of marine sl

Dutch greenhouse gas emissions rose again last year, our energy supply needs to become more resilient, and in Overijssel there are already warnings of potential power outages.

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear fusion at their cores. The mass of these objects falls between planets and stars, ranging from 13 to 80 times the mass of Jupiter. Because they aren't massive enough to sustain fusion, they are far fainter and cooler than their stellar comrades.

EPFL and CSEM researchers have achieved a record 30% efficiency for triple-junction solar cells, which combine two thin-film perovskite cells and one silicon cell on a single device. The milestone could advance affordable next-generation solar technologies for space and terrestrial applications. Researchers from the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory ( PV-Lab ) in EPFL's School of Engineering and CSEM have developed a new solar cell that combines exceptional voltage, high efficiency, and scalable manufacturing.

University of Manchester scientists play key role in discovery of new heavy-proton particle at CERN Scientists from the University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new subatomic particle at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The particle, known as the - cc + (Xi-cc-plus), is a new type of heavy proton-like particle containing two charm quarks and one down quark.

Political preferences are shaped by the subjects pupils study at school, explains Dr Roland Kappe (UCL Political Science) in an article for The Conversation.

Physicist Tobias Heindel uses single quantas of light to make the future internet safer / Insights into current research Prof Tobias Heindel from the Department for Quantum Technology at the Faculty

Quantum computing could be one of the big technological revolutions of the coming decades. EPFL is working on making it accessible and useful for addressing pressing global issues.

Quantum computers often require hundreds of components for a single reliable qubit, making scaling up complicated and expensive.

Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any previously known - one whose electrons travel through its structure in a corkscrew-like pattern that fundamentally alters its chemical behavior.

University of Warwick and MIT scientists reveal hidden microscopic networks on catalyst surfaces that could lead to cleaner and greener chemical processes. Catalysts are essential to modern industry, accelerating reactions used to produce everything from fertilisers and fuels to medicines and hydrogen energy.

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off gravitational waves that reverberate across space and time over hundreds of millions and even billions of years. By the time they pass through Earth, such cosmic ripples are barely discernible.

When you look up at the sky at night, at the endless amounts of stars and constellations, you might begin to wonder about the origins of the Universe.

Thanks to Fink, a software founded by two CNRS 1 engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, in real time and with unprecedented precision.

A team of researchers has developed an AI algorithm that can model complex dynamical processes while taking into account the laws of physics - using with Newton's third law. Artificial intelligence has enabled major breakthroughs in several fields, but the models still struggle to obbey the fundamental laws of physics.

A new study sheds light on a previously overlooked mechanism of soil erosion that occurs just after raindrops hit the ground. The research was conducted in part by Bertil Trottet, an EPFL physicist who also runs a family tree farm in Féchy. What does the study of the physics of particle entrainment have to do with apple-growing along the coast of Lake Geneva? The answer lies in the parallel activities carried out by Bertil Trottet.

How rapidly does information spread through a quantum system? How does a quantum system forget its past? And can today's noisy quantum computers tell us anything trustworthy about the limits of these

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes the chance of finding the system in any of its possible states.

Two-dimensional (2D) materials promise revolutionary advances in electronics and photonics, but many of the most interesting candidates degrade within seconds of air exposure, making them nearly impossible to study or integrate into real-world technology. Transition metal dihalides represent a particularly compelling yet challenging class of materials, with predicted properties ideal for next-generation devices, but their extreme reactivity when exposed to air prevents even basic structural characterisation.

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical fiber at visible wavelengths.

TU Wien has entered the Guinness Book of Records together with its industry partner Cerabyte - for producing and successfully reading the smallest QR codes ever created.

New Multi-Year Agreement Will Focus on Accelerating Pathfinding of New Materials and Processes for the Manufacturing of More Energy-Efficient Specialty Devices - FREMONT, Calif.

Findings from materials physics reveal the connection between electronic noise and thermodynamic properties For modern data storage and new computing concepts, so-called memristive materials are of g

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets.

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), have led the most extensive observational study to date of runaway massive stars, which includes an analysis of the rotation and binarity of these stars in our galaxy.

The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which involves UCL researchers, combined four methods for measuring the expansion of the universe for the first time. Dark energy is the mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe and represents about 70% of the total content of the universe.

What if slightly heating membranes allowed us to describe the movement of their molecules? - Scientists from the EST Laboratory, Experimental Thermal Physics and Soft Matter, publish in the journal Small.

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science's biggest questions - the Hubble tension. The quest to determine how fast the universe is expanding has irked cosmologists for decades, leading it to be dubbed the Hubble tension - or even the Hubble crisis.

New Hybrid Laser Architectures Presented at Photonics West Demonstrate Three Credible Paths Toward Compact, Scalable Mid-Infrared Photonic Systems - SAN FRANCISCO SPIE Photonics West highlighting maj

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers at UCL and Cardiff University.

A new ERC Proof of Concept Grant now enables the team led by Jörg Schmiedmayer to develop a prototype for an entirely new quantum technology.