Ancient Quasars Help Confirm Quantum Entanglement
New results are among the strongest evidence yet for “spooky action at a distance.” Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere…
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Physicists Demonstrate How Hydrogen Becomes Metallic Inside Gas Giant Planets
Swirling dense metallic hydrogen dominates the interiors of Jupiter, Saturn and many extra-solar planets. Building precise models of these giant planets requires an accurate description…
Physicists Reveal New Principle Of Fighting Laser Chaos With Wave-Dynamical Chaos
An international, Yale-led research team has taken a new approach to stabilizing high-power lasers: They’re fighting chaos with chaos. There has been a rapidly growing…
New Insights into the Nature of “Whistlers” and Space Plasmas
Unraveling the Nature of ‘Whistlers’ from Space in the Lab Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic…
Physicists Make First Six Dimensional Phase Space Measurement of an Accelerator Beam
The first full characterization measurement of an accelerator beam in six dimensions will advance the understanding and performance of current and planned accelerators around the…
Scientists Reveal The Great Pyramid Of Giza Can Focus Electromagnetic Energy
An international research group applied methods of theoretical physics to investigate the electromagnetic response of the Great Pyramid to radio waves. Scientists predicted that under…
Scientists Investigate Self-Excited Dust Density Wave Behavior in Plasmas
New microgravity research finds that microparticles in complex plasma behave in nonuniform ways around varying electrical fields. 400 kilometers above Earth, researchers examined waves in…
Space Station Experiment Produces Clouds of Ultracold Atoms
The International Space Station is officially home to the coolest experiment in space. NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) was installed in the station’s U.S. science…
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…
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…