Explaining Everything: Mathematicians Unravel a Thread of String Theory
Thomas Hill and Andreas Malmendier of Utah State University explore a string duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory in eight dimensions. Simply put, string…
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A New Phase of Matter Known As “Time Crystals” Observed Interacting for the First Time Ever
For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the interaction of a new phase of matter known as ”time crystals.” The discovery, published in Nature…
Researchers Capture Incredible Footage of Fluid “Fracturing” Like a Solid Under Stress
Swansea University researchers from the College of Engineering have captured the moments a fluid reacts like a solid through a new method of fluid observation…
COVID-19 Warning: Humid Air Can Extend Lifetime of Virus-Laden Aerosol Droplets
Scientists report a detailed model of aerosol transport through air, considering several environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity and ambient flow. The novel coronavirus that…
Scientists Design “Acoustic Diode” – Device Would Allow Sound Waves to Propagate in Only One Direction
In research published in Science Advances, a group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) have used a principle, “magneto-rotation…
Spin Wave Detective Story Redux: More Surprising Behavior Discovered in a 2D Magnet
A few months ago, a team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported something surprising about a 2D magnetic material:…
Physicists New Pulsed RF Control Method for Improving the Performance of Fusion Reactions
Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions – delivering a potential way to improve…
Jetting Into the Dark Side: ATLAS’ Precision Search for Dark Matter
The nature of dark matter remains one of the great unsolved puzzles of fundamental physics. Unexplained by the Standard Model, dark matter has led scientists…
Spintronics Breakthrough: Efficient Valves for Electron Spins
Researchers at the University of Basel in collaboration with colleagues from Pisa have developed a new concept that uses the electron spin to switch an…
Ultrathin Flat Lenses for High Resolution Imaging Using Monolayer Transition Metal
Lenses are one of the most commonly used optical components in daily life, including eyeglasses, microscopic objectives, magnifying glass, and camera lenses. Conventional lenses are…
Quantum Researchers Create an Error-Correcting Cat – New Device Combines Schrödinger’s Cat With Quantum Error Correction
Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat — a new device that combines the Schrödinger’s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two…
Physicists Cast Doubt on Neutrino Theory – Exotic Subatomic Particle May Not Exist at All
Exotic subatomic particles, sterile neutrinos, are no-shows in experiments, increasing doubts about their existence. University of Cincinnati physicists, as part of an international research team,…
Explosive Nuclear Astrophysics: New Method Developed to Determine Origin of Stardust in Meteorites
International team develops a new method to determine the origin of stardust in meteorites. Analysis of meteorite content has been crucial in advancing our knowledge…
Large Hadron Collider: Could the Higgs Boson Decay Into Dark Matter?
Probing Dark Matter With the Higgs Boson Visible matter – everything from pollen to stars and galaxies – accounts for roughly 15% of the total…
Large Hadron Collider Detects Evidence of a Rare Higgs Boson Process: God Particle Decaying Into a Pair of Muons
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider have seen evidence of a new type of decay not yet observed: the Higgs boson…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Breaking New Ground in the Search for Dark Matter
The latest on the Large Hadron Collider’s hunt for the hypothetical particle that may make up dark matter. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is renowned…
Long-Standing Tension in the Standard Model of Particle Physics Addressed by ATLAS Experiment at CERN
A new ATLAS measurement of a key feature of the Standard Model known as lepton flavor universality suggests that a previous discrepancy measured by the…
Droplet Spread From Humans Doesn’t Always Follow Airflow – Important Implications for Spread of COVID-19
A mathematical model of droplet migration may have important implications for understanding the spread of airborne diseases, such as COVID-19. The World Health Organization has…