«They will tell us what we need to know to build rocket engines that can handle megawatts of power,»
says applied physicist Tim Glover, a board member and co-founder of Ad Astra.
A future version might be used to detect noisy marine life or listen in on sonar use,
say applied physicist Oliver Wright of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and a team at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, who describe the metamaterial in a paper accepted to Physical Review Letters.
Not exact matches
Companies and scientists are developing an array of options, all of which boil down to the following trifecta,
says Chris Xu, an
applied physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: «Everybody wants to go deeper, everybody wants to go faster, everybody wants to go wider.»
In an interview with Nature, Clemson
physicist Valentini
said, «I don't like to sound hyperbolic, but I think the word «seismic» is likely to
apply to this paper.»
This «field friendly» device relies on readily available and relatively low - cost components and can find the lethal pathogen in blood in just 20 minutes,
says Diego Krapf, an
applied physicist and assistant professor of engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, who designed the new device.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — When he
applied for his job,
says Peter Onyisi, a 31 - year - old experimental particle
physicist, he didn't let his hopes get too high.
In its broadest sense, molecular gastronomy today is «the idea that we can scientifically understand ways to make us really enjoy our food and
apply that to be able to prepare — both in restaurants and at home — food that is increasingly satisfying,»
says Peter Barham, a polymer
physicist at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and an early contributor to the field.
Tim Darling, another Los Alamos
physicist working on the microwave interferometer with Migliori,
says that as the electronics become cheaper, a microwave inspection system will eventually be
applied to most large bridges in the US.
«Give people feedback and it becomes a game,»
says Google's Ed Lu, an
applied physicist who runs the program.
Although
physicists say the technique has a way to go before it can be
applied, they envision its being used for developing tiny measuring devices or to make tiny generators.
The move was partly personal, partly professional, he
says: Aveiro is close to Ourense, where Añel's wife, also an
applied physicist, holds a permanent university position.
The particle's existence was missed by
physicist Hermann Weyl during the initial development of quantum theory 85 years ago,
say the researchers, because it violated a fundamental rule, called Lorentz symmetry, that does not
apply in the materials where the new type of fermion arises.
Lead researcher and
physicist Dr. Jon Major
says that the
applying magnesium chloride provides the same boost, but it's far safer and far cheaper.