Science Made Simple: What Are Sterile Neutrinos?
Sterile neutrinos are a special kind of neutrino that has been proposed to explain some unexpected experimental results, but they have not been definitively discovered….
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Read interesting physics news and the latest physics research discoveries on SciTechDaily. Listed here are recent physics news articles from sources like Harvard, MIT, Los Alamos, Rice University, Princeton, and Lawrence Berkeley. Physics news topics include Particle, Nuclear, and Quantum Physics, as well as Astrophysics, Biophysics, Heliophysics, Geophysics, and Quantum Computing.
New Look at Nuclear Weapon Effects for Near-Surface Detonations
Nano Optics Breakthrough: Researchers Observe Sound-Light Pulses in 2D Materials for the First Time
Taming Silicon to Interact With Light for Next-Generation Microelectronics
Gravity Might Play a Bigger Role in the Formation of Elementary Particles Than Scientists Thought
Reaping the Benefits of Noise: Scientists Show 10x Efficiency Increase in Harvesting Energy From Noise
Spaceplate Light Manipulation: Say Goodbye to Your Camera Bump and Hello to Paper Thin Telescopes
Major Scientific Leap: Quantum Microscope Created That Can See the Impossible
Giant Nonlinearity of UV Hybrid Light-Matter States With a Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Waveguide
Physicists Uncover New Mechanism Enabling Magnetism and Superconductivity to Co-exist in the Same Material
Why Deep Freezing Iron-Based Materials Makes Them Both Magnetic and Superconducting Physicists at the University of Bath, in collaboration with researchers from the USA, have…
New Crystalline Form of Silicon Could Enable Next-Gen Electronic and Energy Devices
Novel crystalline form of silicon could potentially be used to create next-generation electronic and energy devices. A team led by Carnegie’s Thomas Shiell and Timothy…
Smashing Gold With Finesse: Shockless Compression Experiments Establish Extreme New Pressure Scales
To test the Standard Model of particle physics, scientists often collide particles using gigantic underground rings. In a similar fashion, high-pressure physicists compress materials to…
Antimatter: Scientists Trap Elusive Material by Blasting It With Lasers
Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. It’s the counterpart to matter: identical in every way – with…
ICARUS Gets Ready to Fly – Officially Starts Its Hunt for Elusive Sterile Neutrinos This Fall
The ICARUS detector, part of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, will officially start its hunt for elusive sterile neutrinos this fall. The international collaboration led by…
Spacetime Crystals: New Mathematical Formula May Solve Old Problem in Understanding the Fabric of the Universe
A Penn State scientist studying crystal structures has developed a new mathematical formula that may solve a decades-old problem in understanding spacetime, the fabric of…
Electrons Waiting Their Turn: New Model Explains 3D Quantum Material
Scientists from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter have developed a new understanding of how electrons behave in strong…
Quantum Computing With Holes: A New and Promising Qubit at a Place Where There Is Nothing
Quantum computers with their promises of creating new materials and solving intractable mathematical problems are a dream of many physicists. Now, they are slowly approaching…
Hidden Dark Forces: A New Dimension in the Quest to Understand Dark Matter
UC Riverside dark matter research program targets assumptions about particle physics. As its name suggests, dark matter — material which makes up about 85% of…