Proposal for Powerful Particle Collider Gets National Academies’ Go-Ahead
The case for an ambitious new particle accelerator to be built in the United States has just gotten a major boost. Today, the National Academies…
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Physicists Propose Possible Death of the Universe Scenario
Professor Odintsov comments, “Possible future singularity was studied within the modified theory of gravity with the use of dynamical system variables. We showed that a…
Physicists Design New System for Stopping ‘Leaks’ in Quantum Computers
Yale researchers have designed a new system to keep tomorrow’s quantum computers from “leaking.” Large-scale quantum computers are still years away, but it is well…
Physicists Hunt for Nitrogen Containing Molecules in Space
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck are on the hunt for nitrogen containing molecules in space. Using terahertz spectroscopy, they directly measured two spectral lines…
Physicists Reveal Mysterious IceCube Event May Be A Tau Neutrino
Theoretical physicists calculate the origin of a high-energy particle track captured by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory It was just eight years ago that the IceCube…
Quantum Transmission Between Two Solid-State Qubits at the Push of a Button
In the new quantum information technologies, fragile quantum states have to be transferred between distant quantum bits. Researchers at ETH have now realized such a…
New Type of Silicon Laser Uses Sound Waves to Amplify Light
Yale scientists have created a new type of silicon laser that uses sound waves to amplify light. A study about the discovery appears in the…
Engineers Enhance the Interactions Between Light and Matter
A new way of enhancing the interactions between light and matter, developed by researchers at MIT and Israel’s Technion, could someday lead to more efficient…
Nanoscientists Develop Blueprint for Next-Generation Computing
Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are single atom layers that…
ExaHyPE – Simulation Code for New Generation of Supercomputers
Even after the direct measurement of their gravitational waves, there are still mysteries surrounding black holes. What happens when two black holes merge, or when…
Tunable Diamond Strings Improve Quantum Memory
A quantum internet promises completely secure communication. But using quantum bits or qubits to carry information requires a radically new piece of hardware – a…
PROSPECT Ready To Search For A Previously Unobserved Particle
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) has completed the installation of a novel antineutrino detector that will probe the possible existence of a…
Scientists Make First Observations of Phasons
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory made the first observations of waves of atomic rearrangements, known as phasons, propagating supersonically through…
Quantum Entanglement Between Two Ultra-Cold Atomic Clouds
The prestigious journal Science has echoed a novel experiment in the field of quantum physics in which several members of the Quantum Information Theory and…
Magneto-Gravitational Trap Provides Precise Measurement of Neutron Lifetime
A study led in part by physicists at the Indiana University Center for the Exploration of Energy and Matter could provide new insight into the…
Quantum Chaos May Be The Key To Quantum Computers
New research gives insight into a recent experiment that was able to manipulate an unprecedented number of atoms through a quantum simulator. This new theory…
Physicists Devise New Diagnostic for Particle Accelerators
The world’s cutting-edge particle accelerators are pushing the extremes in high-brightness beams and ultrashort pulses to explore matter in new ways. To optimize their performance…
Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory About The Big Bang
Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has…