How To Shelter From a Nuclear Explosion
Simulations reveal the destructive power of blast waves and the best places to take shelter. A nuclear explosion is a catastrophic event with no safe…
Simulations reveal the destructive power of blast waves and the best places to take shelter. A nuclear explosion is a catastrophic event with no safe…
Researchers from the universities of Seville and Bristol have solved the mystery surrounding the unsteady path of an air bubble rising in water. Professors Miguel…
How would our world be perceived by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? According to theorists from Warsaw and Oxford universities, such a…
The newly developed method links quantum and classical worlds and may enhance measurements for quantum computers and other applications. Our vision is made possible by…
Researchers from Basel and Tel Aviv discovered that friction varies with speed in specific graphene structures on platinum surfaces, defying Coulomb’s law which states that…
The shape of heavy nuclei changes as the energy level varies. The universe is governed by four fundamental forces that dictate the interactions between particles…
A research team involving the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has discovered a quantum state where water remains liquid even at extremely low temperatures. The team, consisting…
Phase transition in early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter. Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics….
Scientists have created a simulation of an entire family of universes with curvature using ultracold quantum gases. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity states that space and…
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Modern Physics and their collaborators have identified the most significant isospin mixing observed in beta-decay experiments,…
Researchers report a new, highly unusual, structured-light family of 3D topological solitons, the photonic hopfions, where the topological textures and topological numbers can be freely…
A new study at TU Wien has revealed how chaos theory connects quantum theory and thermodynamics, two seemingly separate areas of physics. A single particle…
Scientists are investigating how matter gets its mass by confining quarks. A novel method for investigating quarks, the fundamental particles that make up the protons…
First-ever observation of quantum interference between dissimilar particles offers new approach for mapping distribution of gluons in atomic nuclei—and potentially more. Nuclear physicists have found…
A team from Nagoya University in Japan has observed, for the first time, the energy transferring from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in space. Their…
Findings may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations. Given the choice of three different…
The fine structure constant is a fundamental constant of nature and its measurement is crucial in physics. Recently, researchers at TU Wien have discovered a…
An international research team, led by the Complutense University of Madrid, has used computer simulations to study the movement of a solid sliding over ice…