Symmetry Magazine: Physicist Monica Dunford remembers when the CERN press office asked her if she wanted to be interviewed by a visiting documentary film crew. It was 2007, and she had just arrived at CERN as a postdoc on the ATLAS experiment. “I thought I would do this interview and…
PhysOrg: Synthetic carbon allotropes are fascinating for their outstanding properties and potential applications. Scientists have devoted decades to synthesizing new types of carbon materials. However, a two-dimensional fullerene, which…
PhysOrg: One day soon, buildings could become more energy-efficient—and environmentally sustainable—with insulating material developed from wood by researchers in Sweden. The newly-developed material offers as good or even better…
Physics: Pulses of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light are used to study very fast processes and very small things. Generating these pulses has become routine with a technique called high-harmonic generation, which uses an “upconversion” material to transform low-frequency pulses to…
PhysOrg: For over a decade, scientists have attempted to synthesize a new form of carbon called graphyne with limited success. That endeavor is now at an end, though, thanks…