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Machine-learning-based molecular dynamics simulations explain the growth mechanism of diamond-like amorphous carbon films.

[Physics] Published Wed Apr 18, 2018

Calculations of the current density within collective charge oscillations called plasmons reveal a complicated structure that could affect how plasmons reflect off a boundary.

[Physics] Published Tue Apr 17, 2018

Author(s): Neil Cornish

A new analysis technique would allow the gravitational-wave “background” from distant black hole mergers to be detected in days instead of years.

[Physics 11, 36] Published Mon Apr 16, 2018

Author(s): Mark Buchanan

The surprising stability of large and diverse bacterial communities can be explained by a model that emphasizes the microbes’ food requirements.

[Physics 11, 37] Published Fri Apr 13, 2018

The electrical properties of a graphene bilayer can be tuned by stretching and rotating one of the bilayer’s sheets.

[Physics] Published Thu Apr 12, 2018

A new analysis technique allows researchers to extract atomic-resolution holographic images of materials using a transmission electron microscope.

[Physics] Published Wed Apr 11, 2018

Muons could be used to check whether spent fuel rods are missing from the casks used to store waste nuclear material.

[Physics] Published Tue Apr 10, 2018

Author(s): Frank T. Avignone III

A search for dark matter axions with unprecedented sensitivity tests a previously inaccessible parameter range for these hypothetical particles.

[Physics 11, 34] Published Mon Apr 09, 2018

Author(s): Michael Schirber

Neutrinos in a beam have a wide range of energies, but a new trick allowed researchers to isolate fixed-energy neutrinos, which can improve the precision in future experiments.

[Physics 11, 35] Published Fri Apr 06, 2018

A new theoretical framework connects the exponential growth of a cell population to the stochastic replication of individual cells within the population.

[Physics] Published Thu Apr 05, 2018

A geometric model of meltwater ponds may help predict how the polar ice caps might evolve under future climate changes.

[Physics] Published Wed Apr 04, 2018

The structure of jets emerging from high-energy collisions of lead ions may provide a new way to study the quark-gluon plasma created in those same collisions.

[Physics] Published Tue Apr 03, 2018

Author(s): Philip Ball

A technique involving wave interference may improve the practicality of charging a phone wirelessly at some distance from the power source.

[Physics 11, 33] Published Mon Apr 02, 2018

Author(s): Philip Bayly

A numerical study suggests that head impacts primarily induce a few low-frequency, damped modes of vibration in brain tissue, a finding that could inform the design of sports helmets.

[Physics 11, 32] Published Fri Mar 30, 2018

The rapid compression of silica to pressures of 36 GPa and higher transforms it from an amorphous material to a tetragonal crystal.

[Physics] Published Thu Mar 29, 2018

Studying particles sliding over a 2D potential lattice, researchers have observed a phase transition between a frictional regime and a frictionless, “superlubric” regime

[Physics] Published Wed Mar 28, 2018

Using data on the activity of individual financial traders, researchers have devised a microscopic financial model that can explain macroscopic market trends.

[Physics] Published Tue Mar 27, 2018

Author(s): Jonathan Engel and Petr Vogel

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

[Physics 11, 30] Published Mon Mar 26, 2018

Author(s): David Lindley

A device that can detect individual barium ions could be the heart of an experiment that takes the next step toward probing the nature of the neutrino.

[Physics 11, 31] Published Mon Mar 26, 2018

A proposed instability in the Higgs field could have seeded the Universe with primordial black holes that now serve as dark matter.

[Physics] Published Fri Mar 23, 2018