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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This compound graphic shows a view of the sky in ultra-high energy gamma rays. The arrows indicate the four sources of gamma rays with energies…
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…
Philip Warren Anderson, 2013. Credit: Photo by Amaris Hardy, Office of Communications Philip Warren Anderson, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the postwar era,…
The figure shows how light is caught through the light funnel. Credit: University Rostock / Alexander Szameit Physicists of the University of Würzburg, in a…
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…
Supercontinuum generation caught on camera. Credit: Heriot-Watt University Researchers have generated a wide range of colors from a single laser after discovering a new process…
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…
Experiments at SLAC showed that an inexpensive photosensitizer molecule, iron carbene, can respond in two competing ways when hit by light. Only one of those…
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:…
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…