CMS candidate event for a top quark and antitop quark producing an electron, a muon and jets originating from bottom (b) quarks. Credit: CERN The…
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Artistic impression of single-shot UV-CUP which made the front cover of the 10th issue of the journal Laser & Photonics Reviews. Credit: Jinyang Liang: Single-Shot…
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…
Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems.…
Credit: University of Arkansas Researchers build circuit that harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip…
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and National Institute of Radiological Sciences have designed a way to detect the absolute oxygen concentration in patients’ bodies,…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada A University of Colorado at Boulder astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely…
Evolution of atomic lattice oscillation waves upon heating the tin sulfide crystal, as measured with neutron scattering. Credit: Tyson Lanigan-Atkins, Delaire group, Duke University ‘Cold…
SLAC scientists have invented a copper accelerator structure that could make future X-ray lasers and accelerators for radiation therapy more compact. It feeds terahertz radiation…
Physicists from Lancaster University have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit in a continuation of earlier Lancaster research. Helium-3 is…
Straining a honeycomb metasurface generates an artificial magnetic field for light which can be tuned by embedding the metasurface inside a cavity waveguide. Credit: University…
An artist’s rendering of electrical current flowing through a tokamak fusion facility. Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Electric current is everywhere, from…
Laser pulses lasting for mere femtoseconds (one-quadrillionth of a second) are stretched to the nanosecond (one-billionth of a second) range. Credit: © 2020 Ideguchi et…
Researchers at Linköping University have developed a molecule that absorbs energy from sunlight and stores it in chemical bonds. A possible long-term use of the…
The Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions will address the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and physics fundamental interactions (FI). Credit: Laboratory for Nuclear…
An MIT study reports that incoming cosmic rays may limit qubit performance, impeding progress in quantum computing. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Building quantum computers underground…
Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates. The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope of…
In laser-plasma acceleration, a strong laser pulse (red) generates a plasma wave (blue) in hydrogen gas by stripping electrons from gas molecules. The electrons (red)…
Light Swirls Provide Insights Into the Quantum World A new method uses swirls of light to enable researchers to observe previously invisible quantum states of…
Linac 4 is the newest accelerator to join CERN’s complex. Credit: Andrew Hara/CERN The CERN Control Centre (CCC) is abuzz once again. The second long…