Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje…
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A novel hydrogen clathrate hydrate. Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Scientists from the United States, China, and Russia have described the structure and properties of…
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Credit: CERN The bounds are some of the tightest yet…
Illustration of an electron-beam “sketching” a quantum dot at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. Credit: Muqing Yu Technique is 10,000 faster than previous methods, and can create…
MIT and Harvard researchers have studied how elementary units of magnetism, called spins (the black arrows), move around and interact with other spins, in a…
A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called “topological quantum states,” which, has implications for…
Katherine Shield (from left), Dahlia An, Tyler Bailey at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, in Berkeley, California. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab…
Next Step in Simulating the Universe Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba devise a new approach to show how ghost-like neutrinos helped shape the…
Figure 1. Cavity designs with various internal sections. (Left to right) ① single large cavity, ② single small cavity, ③ multiple small cavities ④multiple-cell cavity…
New mathematics have shown that lines of energy can be used to describe the universe. Matter is what makes up the universe, but what makes…
The gas cell used as a plasma source. The laser arrives from the right of these images through the metal cone and enters the little…
MIT grad student Chiara Salemi and Professor Lindley Winslow use the ABRACADABRA instrument to reveal insights into dark matter. On the first floor of MIT’s…
The Borexino detector, a hyper-sensitive instrument deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos from our sun’s…
Mars is kept company by two cratered moons—an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona What causes the…
The Borexino detector in combination with the Sun. Credit: Copyright Borexino Collaboration/Maxim Gromov The Borexino collaboration, in which also scientists from TU Dresden are involved,…
View into the interior of the Borexino detector. Credit: Borexino Collaboration Neutrinos Yield First Experimental Evidence of Catalyzed Fusion Dominant in Many Stars An international…
In a new realm of materials, PhD student Thanh Nguyen uses neutrons to hunt for exotic properties that could power real-world applications. Thanh Nguyen is…
Scientists study neutrinos produced by nuclear reactors, radioactive decay, particle accelerators, the sun, the Earth, and the cosmos. Credit: Artwork by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with…
Why do certain materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades — scientists at TU Wien have found…
An artist’s impression of an axion, a hypothetical elementary particle, which has been invoked to explain why charge–parity symmetry is preserved in quantum chromodynamics. They…