Extreme State of Matter: Evidence of Top Quarks in Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
The result opens the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly…
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Rare Form of Magnetism Unlocked by Stacking and Twisting Graphene
Twisting a monolayer and a bilayer sheet of graphene into a three-layer structure leads to new quantum mechanical states. Since the discovery of graphene more…
Max Planck and the Birth of Quantum Mechanics
In the early evening of Sunday, October 7, 1900—120 years ago—Max Planck found the functional form of the curve that we now know as the…
A Force From “Nothing” Used to Control and Manipulate Objects
A collaboration between researchers from The University of Western Australia and The University of California Merced has provided a new way to measure tiny forces…
Generating Megatesla Magnetic Fields on Earth Using Intense-Laser-Driven Microtube Implosions
A team of researchers led by Osaka University discovers “microtube implosion,” a novel mechanism that demonstrates the generation of megatesla-order magnetic fields. Magnetic fields are…
Electrons Caught Behaving Collectively in Experiments With Twisted 2D Materials
Scientists can have ambitious goals: curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and materials research, some of these ambitious goals are to make…
Andrea Ghez Wins Nobel Prize in Physics for Pioneering Research on the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Andrea Ghez, UCLA’s Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics, today was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics. Ghez shares half of the…
Fundamental Physics: Scientists Discover the Fastest Possible Speed of Sound
A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the…
Extremely Rare Higgs Boson Decay Process Spotted at the Large Hadron Collider
The Higgs boson reached overnight fame in 2012 when it was finally discovered in a jumble of other particles generated at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…
Reality Does Not Depend on the Measurer According to New Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
For 100 years scientists have disagreed on how to interpret quantum mechanics. A recent study by Jussi Lindgren and Jukka Liukkonen supports an interpretation that…
Optical Matter Machine: Nanoscale Machines Convert Light Into Work
Based on optical matter, new machines could be used to move and manipulate tiny particles. Researchers have developed a tiny new machine that converts…
Andrea Ghez Wins Share of 2020 Nobel Prize for Discoveries in Black Hole Physics
Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez ’87 has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, announced today by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. She…
Light-Speed Imager: World’s Fastest UV Camera Works at 500 Billion Frames per Second
Researchers Design the World’s Fastest UV Camera – Records Photons in the Ultraviolet Range in Real Time The team of Professor Jinyang Liang, a specialist…
Opening a New Frontier in Nuclear Physics: Electron-Ion Collider Project Launched
State-of-the-art facility and partnership among DOE, NYS, Brookhaven Lab, and Jefferson Lab will open a new frontier in nuclear physics, a field essential to our…
Professor’s Milestone in Nuclear Physics Seeks to Understand the Universe Itself
Early research on atomic nuclei yielded a wave of discoveries. A nuclear physics professor from Florida International University was among a team of researchers that…
New Quantum Paradox Reveals Contradiction Between Widely Held Beliefs – “Something’s Gotta Give”
Quantum physicists at Griffith University have unveiled a new paradox that says, when it comes to certain long-held beliefs about nature, “something’s gotta give.” Quantum…
Complications for Clean Energy Storage and Transportation Created by Hydrogen Embrittlement
Methods reveal understanding of the location of hydrogen in ferritic steels. As the global energy market shifts from coal, petroleum fuel, and natural gas to…
Scientists Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal – New Possibilities for Laser and Sensor Design
ITMO University scientists have conducted several experiments to investigate polymeric quasicrystals that ultimately confirmed their initial theory. In the future, the use of quasicrystals may…