RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Casimir force, also known as the Casimir effect, is typified by the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates. Today, this force ...

New Haven, Conn.—A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be ...

Scientists can put two uncharged metal plates close together in a vacuum, and 'voila!' -- they will attract each other. In 1948, Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrick Casimir first predicted an ...

Researchers have discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light rather than electricity. A ...

Limited wavelengths: the Casimir effect arises because virtual photons at certain wavelengths cannot emerge in a gap between two plates (Courtesy: iStock/4X-image) Physicists in the US have worked out ...

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-powered motors package DNA into viral proheads via a portal nanochannel, overcoming large forces resisting DNA confinement arising from DNA bending rigidity, electrostatic ...

On the move: a sequence of electron micrographs showing pairs of skyrmions as they respond to a magnetic field that increases from left to right. (Courtesy: Haifeng Du et al/Phys. Rev. Lett.) ...