Recipe for a Universe: Apply Heat and Stir
Apply heat and stir; an expanding universe can emerge in a remarkably simple way, say scientists at the Vienna University of Technology. When soup is heated, it starts to boil. When time and space are...
View ArticleTowards Perfect Control of Light Waves
A team at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) in Garching (Germany) has constructed a detector, which provides a detailed picture of the waveforms of femtosecond laser pulses (1 fs = 10-15...
View ArticleCalibration Confirms LUX Dark Matter Results
A new calibration of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter detector brought a 10-fold increase in calibration accuracy, confirming findings announced last October from the instrument’s first...
View ArticleScientists Complete the Top Quark Puzzle
Scientists on the CDF and DZero experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that they have found the final predicted way of creating a top quark,...
View ArticlePhysics in 3-D? That’s nothing: Try 0-D
In physics, there’s small, and then there’s nullity — as in zero-dimensional. University of Cincinnati researchers have reached this threshold with a special structure that may someday lead to better...
View ArticleEmerging Research Suggests a New Paradigm for ‘Unconventional Superconductors’
An international team of scientists has reported the first experimental observation of the quantum critical point (QCP) in the extensively studied “unconventional superconductor” TiSe2, finding that it...
View ArticleHouse Windows That Double as Solar Panels?
A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collaboration with scientists from University of...
View ArticleMelting an Entire Iceberg With a Hot Poker
“What a curious feeling,” says Alice in Lewis Carroll’s tale, as she shrinks to a fraction of her size, and everything around her suddenly looks totally unfamiliar. Scientists too have to get used to...
View ArticleInvisibility Cloak Hides Object from Being Felt
In the past years, invisibility cloaks were developed for various senses. Objects can be hidden from light, heat or sound. However, hiding of an object from being touched still remained to be...
View ArticleNew Evidence Bolsters Higgs Boson Discovery
If evidence of the Higgs boson revealed two years ago was the smoking gun, particle physicists at Rice University and their colleagues have now found a few of the bullets. The European Organization for...
View ArticleTurning the Moon Into a Cosmic Ray Detector
Scientists from the University of Southampton are to turn the Moon into a giant particle detector to help understand the origin of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) cosmic rays — the most energetic particles in...
View ArticleA Piece of the Quantum Puzzle
While the Martinis Lab at UC Santa Barbara has been focusing on quantum computation, former postdoctoral fellow Pedram Roushan and several colleagues have been exploring qubits (quantum bits) for...
View ArticlePhysicists Suggest New Way to Detect Dark Matter
For years physicists have been looking for the universe’s elusive dark matter, but so far no one has seen any trace of it. Maybe we are looking in the wrong place? Now physicists from University of...
View ArticleCooling With the Coldest Matter in the World
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new cooling technique for mechanical quantum systems. Using an ultracold atomic gas, the vibrations of a membrane were cooled down to less than 1...
View ArticleOrigin of Universe: Hunt for Big Bang Particles
Billions upon billions of neutrinos speed harmlessly through everyone’s body every moment of the day, according to cosmologists. The bulk of these subatomic particles are believed to come straight from...
View ArticleElectromagnetic Waves: Earth’s Particle Fallout?
In a new study that sheds light on space weather’s impact on Earth, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues show for the first time that plasma waves buffeting the planet’s radiation belts are...
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