Nuclear Physicists Work to Unravel Strange Mystery of the Neutron Lifetime
Nine seconds. An eternity in some scientific experiments; an unimaginably small amount in the grand scheme of the universe. And just long enough to confound…
Nine seconds. An eternity in some scientific experiments; an unimaginably small amount in the grand scheme of the universe. And just long enough to confound…
Time crystals sound like something out of science fiction, but they may be the next major leap in quantum network research. A team based in…
Researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have discovered a cost-effective way to tune the spectrum of a laser to the infrared, a…
New research from Chalmers, together with ETH Zürich, Switzerland, suggests a promising way to detect elusive dark matter particles through previously unexplored atomic responses occurring…
A recent study from the University of Melbourne proposes a new theory for the origin of dark matter, helping experimentalists in Australia and abroad in…
Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now made an important advance…
Led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a study of a solar-energy material with a bright…
University of Rochester researcher receives $1 million grant to study quantum thermodynamics. It’s still more science fiction than science fact, but perfect energy efficiency may…
Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed…
Physicists from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin track the propagation of light in a molecule. In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists…
Using a novel technique, scientists working at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have found evidence for a quantum spin liquid, a…
The result opens the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly…
A team of researchers led by Osaka University discovers “microtube implosion,” a novel mechanism that demonstrates the generation of megatesla-order magnetic fields. Magnetic fields are…
A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the…
The Higgs boson reached overnight fame in 2012 when it was finally discovered in a jumble of other particles generated at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…
Researchers Design the World’s Fastest UV Camera – Records Photons in the Ultraviolet Range in Real Time The team of Professor Jinyang Liang, a specialist…
State-of-the-art facility and partnership among DOE, NYS, Brookhaven Lab, and Jefferson Lab will open a new frontier in nuclear physics, a field essential to our…
What causes quasiparticle death? In large systems of interacting particles in quantum mechanics, an intriguing phenomenon often emerges: groups of particles begin to behave like…