Huge Blast Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface Kicks Off DUNE Excavation
It started with a blast. On June 23, construction company Kiewit Alberici Joint Venture set off explosives 3,650 feet beneath the surface in Lead, South…
It started with a blast. On June 23, construction company Kiewit Alberici Joint Venture set off explosives 3,650 feet beneath the surface in Lead, South…
Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram (88 pounds) mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.” The universe, as…
The LHCb collaboration has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks for the first time. The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) collaboration…
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes. Seeing light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn’t come as a big surprise…
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science researchers use flow visualization to qualitatively test facemasks and social distancing. Currently, there are no specific guidelines on…
A summer internship in Bilbao, Spain, has led to a paper in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters for Jack Mayo, a Master’s student in…
New research findings from the IAS, University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley. In a new study of axion motion, researchers propose a scenario known as…
The making of mendelevium-244: In this video, Berkeley Lab project scientist Jennifer Pore describes how scientists working at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron created and confirmed…
Imaging Magnetic Instabilities Using Laser Accelerated Protons An international team of researchers highlighted two variants of Weibel’s instability. The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma…
Quantum teleportation is an important step in improving quantum computing. “Beam me up” is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series….
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. But lasers also show promise to do quite the opposite — to…
An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our universe has been…
Over the past thirty years, the exploration of the infinitely small has gone hand-in-hand with advances in superconducting magnets. The increasingly powerful hadron colliders, from…
Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across…
Ultracold atoms trapped in appropriately prepared optical traps can arrange themselves in surprisingly complex, hitherto unobserved structures, according to scientists from the Institute of Nuclear…
A precision measurement of helium and hydrogen mirror isotopes reveals new questions in understanding of nuclear structure. It’s not often in nuclear physics that you…
Exotic states called Kohn anomalies could offer clues to why some materials have the electronic properties they do. An exotic physical phenomenon known as a…
XENON1T data could be either evidence of new particle physics or unexpected contaminant. The XENON1T detector, tucked into an Italian mountainside to search for signs…