The mini-accelerator uses terahertz radiation that can be recycled for a second stage of acceleration. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Proof of concept for cascaded…
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A look inside the ISOLDE Solenoid Spectrometer at CERN. Credit: Ben Kay, Argonne National Laboratory Weighing In on the Origin of Heavy Elements A long-held…
An image of how the 126-dimensional wave function tile is cross-sectioned into our 3-dimensions 42 times, once for each electron. This shows the domain of…
Muhammad Naeem prepares the experiment at TAKUMI, an engineering materials diffractometer at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) used to perform in-situ neutron diffraction measurements…
The lower horizontal axis is the axion mass, the upper horizontal axis is the microwave frequency corresponding to the mass, and the vertical axis is…
Spot the moving table: the LEGO-based device can be seen next to the beam line. Credit: Michael Deveaux/CERN An improvised device, assembled using toy bricks,…
Could there be a new kind of light in the universe? Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit…
The LHCb experiment at CERN. Credit: CERN New LHCb analysis still sees previous intriguing result: The new analysis continues to find tension with the Standard…
Direct hit. A soft x-ray (white) hits a holmium atom (green). A photo-electron zooms off the holmium atom, which releases energy (purple) that jumps to…
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have measured a property of the neutron more precisely than ever before. In the process, they found out…
Schematic image of permanent magnet stellarator with plasma in yellow. Red and blue indicate permanent magnets with simplified coils surrounding the vessel. Credit: Coaxing Zhu…
This is a schematic illustration of the Kondo cloud detection. Credit: Jeongmin Shim Physicists have been trying to observe the quantum phenomenon Kondo cloud for…
An artist’s impression of how a nanometer-scale electrode is used to locally control the quantum state of a single nucleus inside a silicon chip. Credit:…
The rotation of the QCD axion (black ball) produces an excess of matter (colored balls) over antimatter, allowing galaxies and human beings to exist. (Graphic:…
Inner vertex components of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (righthand view) allow scientists to trace tracks from triplets of decay particles…
An artist’s rendition of neutrino activity. Scientists create new experiment to find neutrinos. One of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics these days is a tiny…
FSU physicists proposed a new particle (yellow) to explain recently reported rare kaon (blue) decays to neutral pions (orange). Credit: Florida State University Florida State…
The animation shows the vibration energy of the silicon atom in the graphene crystal. Credit: D. Kepaptsoglou, SuperSTEM Scientists working at the frontier of nanotechnology…
A sub-atomic particle has been identified that could have formed the “dark matter” in the Universe during the Big Bang. Scientists shed light on mystery…
How did the universe begin? How does quantum mechanics, the study of the smallest things relate to gravity and the study of big things? These…