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…
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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…
Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe. Neutron’s ‘electric dipole moment’ smaller than ever predicted New international standard for…
Strontium ion trapped in an electric field. The measurement on the ion lasts only a millionth of a second. Credit: F. Pokorny et al. Quantum…
Beams of circularly polarized light (shown as blue spirals) can have two different mirror-image orientations, as shown here. When these beams strike a sheet of…
In the first direct probes of the core of the nuclear interaction, researchers find that leading theories on interactions between protons and neutrons describe them…
Model chiral macrocycle (shown in blue) in the catalytic pocket of the enzyme CALB (shown in grey, catalytic serine 105 colored in green [PDB ID…
A sensor using quantum entanglement can determine if a single magnetic excitation is present in a millimeter-sized sphere. This moves us closer to the limit…
Laser cooled atom cloud viewed through microscope camera. Credit: University of Otago In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago researchers have “held” individual…