With current modes up against their limits, we need new data storage solutions. Tiny defects in diamonds’ atomic structure might turn them into a new medium for memory.
New elements were discovered in early thermonuclear bomb tests.
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They might only last for a fraction of a second but four new elements have finally won their place in the periodic table. The hunt is now on to find even more.
Adrian Cansell loading a 100mm silicon wafer into a 200 kV ion implanter.
University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre
Rutherford backscattering spectrometry has been a success in fields ranging from astronomy to art. Now it has even been proven accurate to the satisfaction of the metrologists
Neutrinos, we’re looking for you! Japan’s Super-Kamiokande detector.
Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo
These laboratory-made metals have unusual properties that consumer electronics manufacturers love. New research used high-energy X-rays to figure out why.
Element 117 is unofficially named ununseptium which is Latin for 117.
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The hunt for long-lived superheavy elements has taken another leap forward now we’ve confirmed the existence of Element 117, also known as ununseptium. It was first seen briefly by a team of US and Russian…