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Researchers at IRIG are conducting neutron scattering studies on iron-nickel-arsenic pnicture, a superconducting material at lower temperatures than those conventionally encountered. They have succeeded in probing this compound at the atomic scale, and their results could lead to the proposal of a common mechanism for all superconducting materials. Photo credit: Huiqian Luo team/Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

An old "flaw" of the famous double-slit experiment has now been corrected at TU Wien in a cooperation with Hiroshima University: A single neutron moves along two paths simultaneously, in clearly quantifiable proportions. Courtesy of TU Wien.

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The worst of COVID-19 may have past, but new viral variants keep showing up. Developing new drugs that remain potent against the emerging variants is essential to stopping the spread of the deadly disease and protecting human health.After more than two years of studying SARS-CoV-2—the virus that c…

After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on Earth. It’s the foundation to major structures all over the world and has been used for centuries – since the Roman Empire. But now, our oldest concrete-based infrastructure is approaching the end of its expected lifespan. Understanding the longevity of concrete is imperative for the safety of concrete buildings. We need to know when a co…

Insulin is a hormone that is rapidly secreted into the blood, following a meal, in order to control blood glucose levels. These pulses of insulin secretion enable the body to take up and store sugar and quickly return blood glucose to normal levels. Diabetes, which affects 1 in 10 people in Europe, occurs when this process goes wrong.The endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a protein-producing compartment…

Radioactive isotopes offer excellent treatments for cancers that have spread. The ILL is working with other institutions to produce and test a potentially new clinical radioisotope, terbium-161, that promises to be more effective in killing cancer cells than similar radioisotopes currently in clinical use. Isotopes that emit short-range radiation in the form of electrons or alpha particles offer …

Tiny vortices in magnetic materials called skyrmions act like quantum particles. If able to be stabilised and then manipulated, they could lead the next-generation of electronic devices that exploit magnetic spin to transfer and store information. A new type of skyrmion discovered in an antiferromagnetic compound could wind up progress in the right direction.The study of complex magnetic behaviou…

Applying pressure to metal compounds with electronic and magnetic properties of technological interest provides a uniquely powerful way of tuning those properties so as to understand them better. Through record-breaking high-pressure measurements, we have been able to track the fascinating evolution of conductivity and magnetism in an interesting layered compound as the layers of atoms are pushed…