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Illustration of the MoEDAL detector system (gold and light blue components), surrounding the LHCb experiment’s VELO detector (central grey structure). Credit: CERN The MoEDAL collaboration…
Electrons travel in cars with increasing numbers, giving rise to a conductance series that shows up in Pascal’s triangle. Credit: Yun-Yi Pai Discovery shows electrons…
Illustration of a zirconium vanadium hydride atomic structure at near ambient conditions as determined using neutron vibrational spectroscopy and the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge…
Physicists in Arts & Sciences have proposed a new way to leverage data from large neutrino telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.…
Having studied quark-gluon plasma since the late 1970s, Dr. Johann Rafelski summarizes the evolution in our understanding of the exotic quark signature of this primordial…
View into the interior of the Borexino detector. Credit: Copyright Borexino Collaboration Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement…
Chemical Bond Making & Breaking Recorded in Action – 500,000x Smaller Than the Width of a Human Hair
Re2 on Carbon Scheme. Credit: University of Nottingham Ever since it was proposed that atoms are building blocks of the world, scientists have been trying…
A 50-year-old puzzle in statistical mechanics has been solved by an international team of researchers who have proved that two-dimensional (2D) liquids have fundamentally different…
Thermal image sequence showing the exothermic surface reaction front moving over the catalyst. Credit: ACS Catalysis; DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04475 Researchers at EPFL have developed a reactor…
A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion — the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the “angel particle” —…
This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of a prototype accelerator-on-a-chip. The segment shown here are one-tenth the width of a human. The oddly…
Crystallization is the physical phenomenon of the transformation of disordered molecules in a liquid or gas phase into a highly ordered solid crystal through two…
Anomalies in nuclear physics experiments may show signs of a new force. A team of scientists in Hungary recently published a paper that hints at…
A miscalculated Fluids Lab demonstration leads to a new understanding of how particles accumulate in lakes and oceans. A team of mathematicians from the University…
This is an artistic representation of an x-ray interacting with layers containing different orbital character. Ionic character orbitals are colored green; while covalent character orbitals…
At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action,…
A schematic diagram of formation and measurement of molecular junctions of oligofluorenes. Oligofluorene molecular wires can be synthesized with high efficiency and high purity, and…
A SLAC-led team has invented a method, called XLEAP, that generates powerful low-energy X-ray laser pulses that are only 280 attoseconds, or billionths of a…