by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 4, 2025 | Alzheimer's disease & dementia, Gerontology & Geriatrics, MEDICALXPRESS
As humans age, particularly after middle age, their brain functions, cognitive abilities and memory can deteriorate to varying degrees. Aging-related disorders marked by cognitive decline, particularly dementia, have become increasingly widespread over the past...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 4, 2025 | PHYS.ORG, Quantum Physics
Exceptional points (EPs) are unique types of energy-level degeneracies that occur in non-Hermitian systems. Since their existence was first proposed more than a century ago, physicists have only been able to experimentally observe two types of EPs, both of which were...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 4, 2025 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Energy & Green Tech, TECHXPLORE
Over the past few decades, solar cells have become increasingly widespread, with a growing number of individuals and businesses worldwide now relying on solar energy to power their homes or operations. Energy engineers worldwide have thus been trying to identify...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 4, 2025 | Optics & Photonics, PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their electric fields canceling each other out), they cannot interact with matter. In contrast, quantum mechanics theory suggests that light particles...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 4, 2025 | Condensed Matter, PHYS.ORG, Quantum Physics
Quasicrystals, exotic states of matter characterized by an ordered structure with non-repeating spatial patterns, have been the focus of numerous recent physics studies due to their unique organization and resulting symmetries. Among the quasicrystals that have...
