The Mystery of the Muon’s Magnetism
A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment. Modern physics is full of the sort of twisty, puzzle-within-a-puzzle…
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Physics Mystery Behind “Coffee Ring” Formation Uncovered
An international research team, led by Monash University, has discovered for the first time the mystery behind the formation of ‘coffee rings’ by examining the…
A New State of Light: Physicists Observe New Phase in Bose-Einstein Condensate of Light Particles
A single “super photon” made up of many thousands of individual light particles: About ten years ago, researchers at the University of Bonn produced such…
Search for Strange Skyrmion Phenomenon Fails but Finds Stranger Magnetic Beaded Necklace
Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin…
Redefining a Second: Three of the World’s Leading Atomic Clocks Compared With Record Accuracy
In a significant advance toward the future redefinition of the international unit of time, the second, a research team led by the National Institute of…
World’s First Laser-Based Manipulation of Antimatter (The Otherworldly Counterpart to Matter)
Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world’s first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a made-in-Canada laser system to cool a sample of…
Stiff Competition: Lab-Made Hexagonal Diamonds Stiffer Than Natural Cubic Diamonds
Nature’s strongest material now has some stiff competition. For the first time, researchers have hard evidence that human-made hexagonal diamonds are stiffer than the common…
Throwing Nuclear Darts at the Speed of Light: Physicists Flip Particle Accelerator to Gain a Clearer View of Atomic Nuclei
Shooting beams of ions at proton clouds may help researchers map the inner workings of neutron stars. Physicists at MIT and elsewhere are blasting beams…
Mechanism Discovered for Making Superconductors More Resistant to Magnetic Fields
Rotation of electron spins in superconductors of atomic-scale thickness may be used to make qubits for quantum computing. Superconductivity is known to be easily destroyed…
Charged Up: Scientists Find New Pathway to Harnessing the Sun for a Clean Energy Future
Berkeley Lab co-led collaboration with DESY and TU Freiberg brings us a step closer to more efficient photovoltaics and solar fuel systems. In the past…
Diffusion in Living Organisms: How Cells Transport Molecules With “Active Carpets”
New research provides insights into the process of diffusion in living systems, with implications from novel active coatings to understanding how pathogens are cleared from…
Chromatic Light Particle Effect Demonstrated for the Development of Photonic Quantum Networks
Researchers demonstrate a novel photonic interference effect that could pave the way to large-scale controllable quantum systems. It’s another step on the road to developing…
A New Way To Observe Laser Interactions Could Improve Laser-Based Manufacturing
Despite the enormous amount of research over the decades into lasers and their applications, there have been few ways to accurately, efficiently, and directly observe…
The Very First Structures in the Universe: Astrophysicists Simulate Microscopic Clusters From the Big Bang
The very first moments of the Universe can be reconstructed mathematically even though they cannot be observed directly. Physicists from the Universities of Göttingen and…
Moiré Effect: How to Twist Exciting New Material Properties
2D materials have triggered a boom in materials research. Now it turns out that exciting effects occur when two such layered materials are stacked and…
Intriguing New Results From Large Hadron Collider Challenge Leading Theory in Physics
Researchers at UZH and CERN have just released new intriguing results. According to the international research collaboration that runs the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb)…
Measuring the Invisible: Seeking Universe’s Smallest Particles for Answers to Its Biggest Questions
Particle physicist Lindley Winslow seeks the universe’s smallest particles for answers to its biggest questions. When she entered the field of particle physics in the…
Zapping Quantum Materials With Lasers Reveals How Atoms Relate
Lex Kemper is an associate professor of physics at NC State. He studies quantum materials: solid materials that have nifty physical properties that make them…