Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special ...

A shiny gray crystal called platinum-bismuth-two hides an electronic world unlike anything scientists have seen before.

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and they were popular back in ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding the ...

Neural mechanisms mediating opioid-induced constipation are not fully understood. Here authors find that morphine-induced constipation is mediated by a neural circuit from the paraventricular nucleus ...