Chemical physicists quantitatively model electron interactions in real quantum materials

by quasarn01 | Aug 25, 2026 | Latest in Physics

A team of scientists from Caltech and Yale University has shown for the first time how to accurately quantify an important quantum phenomenon in metals, called the Kondo effect, for specific real materials. Unlike previous approaches, which for decades have relied on...

Ohio dispatcher resigns after investigation finds more than 20K unauthorized ALPR searches

by quasarn01 | Aug 25, 2026 | Police Lives Matter

A site that tracks Flock usage via public records requests found that one user in the Highland Heights PD searched the system more than 20,000 times in just over a year Go to Source

‘Now boarding’ … 240,000 miles from Earth, at the moon’s first airport

by quasarn01 | Aug 25, 2026 | Astronomy

The moon’s getting its first airport, and it’s about to get busy. Within the next two decades, NASA’s planned Gateway—humanity’s first lunar spaceport—may become a bustling hub for Orion crew capsules, lunar landers, cargo vehicles and...

The little red dots of our cosmos might hide something big

by quasarn01 | Aug 25, 2026 | Astronomy

Little red dots may reside in small, dense galaxies with total masses equivalent to around 1 billion times that of the sun, according to research published in Nature Astronomy. Go to Source

Setting limits on phase transitions in the dark energy era

by quasarn01 | Aug 25, 2026 | Astronomy

The universe is known to be expanding at an accelerating rate. Physicists typically attribute this acceleration to dark energy, a mysterious component of the universe that exerts negative pressure, causing space to expand faster. Dark energy is thought to have become...