For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

For exploring the non-local magneto-resistance in graphene deposited on a tungsten disulphide (WS2), a high magnetic field with two orientations with reference to the graphene plane is used. Based on ...

Twenty years ago this October, two physicists at the University of Manchester, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, published a groundbreaking paper on the “electric field effect in atomically thin ...

Enthusiasts thought the discovery that graphene, a form of carbon, could be extracted from graphite would change the world.

STOCKHOLM (AP) Two Russian-born scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for groundbreaking experiments with the strongest and thinnest material known to mankind a potential building ...

Graphene is being engineered to block mosquito bites, interfere with parasite growth, and power portable malaria tests with higher sensitivity than standard methods. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Malaria ...