A new compact neutron generator could make life easier for scientists in fields as diverse as medicine, geology and condensed matter physics. Neutron scattering is widely used to probe the structure ...

A research team has recently developed a droplet-based electricity generator (DEG), featured with a field-effect transistor (FET)-like structure ... is a Nobel Prize in Physics winning innovation ...

New thermionic generator overcomes the 'space-charge problem ... “[Mannhart and colleagues] have come up with a rather neat vertical triode structure that seeks to improve on the MIT device, by ...

The fine-structure constant is about 10 times its normal value in a type of material called quantum spin ice, physicists calculate in the Sept. 10 Physical Review Letters. The new calculation ...

won the New Horizons Prize in Physics "for contributions to our understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe and the development of new tools to extract fundamental physics from ...

“This year’s Nobel laureates in physics have painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined,” Ulf Danielsson, a Nobel Committee ...