Sodium on Steroids: A Nuclear Physics Breakthrough Thought To Be Impossible
Nuclear physicists have made the most neutron-rich form of sodium yet, which will help reveal more about the complex world of nuclei. Physicists at RIKEN…
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Revolution in Physics: First-Ever X-Ray of a Single Atom Captured
Scientists have successfully detected the X-ray signature of a single atom for the first time. Using a pioneering technique known as synchrotron X-ray scanning tunneling…
Higgs Boson: Our Passport to the Hidden Valley of New Physics in Next-Gen Particle Accelerators
It may be that the famous Higgs boson, co-responsible for the existence of masses of elementary particles, also interacts with the world of the new…
A Cutting-Edge Diamond Sensor for Neutron Experiments and Quantum Information Science
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s nuclear physics group is participating in the nEDM experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, aiming to measure the neutron’s electric…
Sequential “Melting” of Upsilons: New Insight Into the Hottest Matter on Earth
STAR Physicists Track Sequential ‘Melting’ of Upsilons Findings provide evidence for ‘deconfinement’ and insight into the seething temperature of the hottest matter on Earth. Scientists…
Building a Computer With a Single Atom
New studies broaden the perspectives on what constitutes a “computer” and how small a computational unit can be. When we define a “computer” as any…
Physicists Solve Quasicrystal Formation Mystery
At high temperatures, the structure of two-dimensional titanium oxide breaks down and forms rings of four, seven, and ten atoms when barium is added, instead…
The Future of Error Correction: Taking Advantage of Quantum Scrambling
The randomness in quantum machines helps confirm their accuracy. Quantum computers and other quantum systems experience information spreading and rapid scrambling, similar to the way…
Can You Trust Your Quantum Simulator? MIT Physicists Report a New Quantum Phenomenon
A recent development offers a method to confirm the validity of experiments investigating the peculiar behavior of atomic-scale systems. Physics gets strange at the atomic…
Never Been Done Before – A New Way To Study Quarks
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…
U.S. RHIC Atom Smasher Reveals a Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment
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…
For the First Time: Scientists Have Formed a Charged Rare Earth Molecule on a Metal Surface and Rotated It
For the first time, scientists formed a charged rare earth molecule on a metal surface and rotated it using scanning tunneling microscopy. Scientists from Ohio…
Physicists Baffled by Proton Structure Anomaly
Precision measurement of how a proton’s structure deforms in an electric field has revealed new details about an unexplained spike in proton data. Nuclear physicists…
Nuclear Physics: How Stiff Is the Proton?
The proton is a nuclear particle with a positive electric charge located in the nucleus of an atom. It is a composite particle made up…
New Tool Uses Gravitational Waves to Peer Inside Neutron Stars
Imagine taking a star with twice the mass of the Sun and crushing it down to the size of Manhattan. The result would be a…
Mysteries of the Universe Revealed Under the Skin of an Atomic Nucleus
Massive neutron stars colliding in space are believed to be able to create precious metals such as gold and platinum. Although the properties of these…
World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Reveals Carbon-12 Origin Story – A Building Block for Life
With the help of the world’s most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of scientists has theorized how the extreme conditions…
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
An art-science collaboration tests the limits of visual technologies. Try to picture a proton — the tiny, positively charged particle within an atomic nucleus —…