The first spectroscopic studies of krypton-98 and krypton-100 suggest that these nuclei exist in a quantum superposition of two distorted shapes. The study also provides evidence that neutron-rich ...

For humans as social beings, other people’s hands are highly visually conspicuous. Exceptionally striking are hands in other than natural configuration which have been found to elicit distinct brain ...

Due to a phenomenon called the shape memory effect (SME), certain "memory metals" can be distorted and then brought back to their original shape by a simple temperature change. While a one-way memory ...

Looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to nebulae. From here on Earth, the well-studied Ring Nebula looks like a fiery, slightly misshapen ring with fuzzy edges and a hole in its center. But ...

UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy, but you wouldn't know it from this detailed NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 3912's distorted shape is typically indicative of a gravitational ...

A new technique measures free-form wafer shape, write Marco Franchi, Wooptix, and Leon van Dijk, Ronald Otten, Richard Van Haren, ASML. On-product overlay (OPO) is one of the most critical parameters ...