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Smartphone sensor array reimagined as ultra-precise antimatter imaging system

Apr 03, 2025 (SPX)

The AEgIS project, along with parallel efforts by ALPHA and GBAR at CERN's Antimatter Factory, seeks to determine the gravitational behavior of antihydrogen ato...

The ticking frontier of thorium powered nuclear clocks

Apr 02, 2025 (SPX)

Time and frequency currently stand as the most precisely measurable physical parameters, with atomic optical clocks representing the pinnacle of accuracy. Yet, ...

James Webb captures earliest hint of cosmic clarity

Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)

One early galaxy has now illuminated a critical shift in the young cosmos: the first signs of the Universe becoming transparent. A foggy challenge The birth of ...

Rice physicists trace quantum entanglement in strange metal

Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)

Unlike ordinary metals like gold or copper, whose electrical conductance is well described by established physical laws, strange metals operate under a differen...

A quantum fast track for generating NOON states

Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)

Doctoral student Simon Dengis, working with the Quantum Statistical Physics (PQS) group at ULiege, devised a solution akin to optimizing a route through a crowd...

European leadership in particle physics threatened by China

Mar 31, 2025 (AFP)

Gianotti also downplayed fears over the Future Circular Collider's funding and criticism from some scientists the money would be better spent elsewhere. Q : Las...

No technical obstacles to new giant particle collider in Europe: CERN

Mar 31, 2025 (AFP)

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) project is essential for ensuring that Europe maintains its global leadership in fundamental physics, CERN chief Fabiola Gian...

Howard University researcher explores quantum bounds on life's computational power

Mar 30, 2025 (SPX)

Kurian, founding director of the Quantum Biology Laboratory (QBL), has published a new study in *Science Advances* that establishes a revised upper boundary on ...

ACES mission moves closer to launch from ISS

Mar 26, 2025 (SPX)

Earlier in March, the ACES payload departed Europe and made its way across the Atlantic. Upon arrival in Florida, the unit was moved into the Space Station Proc...

ESA's Euclid spacecraft unveils 'gold mine' of new scientific data

Mar 19, 2025 (UPI)

New data included deep-field space imagery and snapshots of thousands of different and distant galaxies that revealed the structure of the so-called "cosmic web...

General Atomics marks completion of OTB satellite mission ahead of deorbit phase

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

"OTB began an exciting chapter for GA-EMS as this was the first launch of our GA-150 spacecraft hosting multiple payloads on a single satellite to simultaneousl...

Atomic scale coating advances improve UV space telescope performance

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), researchers are leveraging two precise methods-atomic layer deposition (ALD) and atomic layer etching (ALE)-to create...

New high-definition pictures of the baby universe

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

"We are seeing the first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies," says Suzanne Staggs, director of ACT and Henry deWolf Smyth Professor of Physics...

Beyond expectations SKA-Low unveils its first cosmic snapshot

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

Captured using an early configuration of just 1,024 antennas out of a planned 131,072, this image offers a compelling preview of the discoveries that lie ahead ...

Dialing in the temperature needed for precise nuclear timekeeping

Mar 18, 2025 (SPX)

This idea isn't new in Ye's laboratory. In fact, work in the lab on nuclear clocks began with a landmark experiment, the results of which were published as the ...

Researchers achieve Bose-Einstein condensation of bound magnon pairs in triangular lattice material

Mar 17, 2025 (SPX)

The breakthrough, recently reported in *Nature Materials*, demonstrates a long-theorized but previously unverified quantum phenomenon in magnetic systems. BEC, ...

Signal Acquired NASA SPHEREx Begins Science Mission

Mar 13, 2025 (SPX)

In the coming weeks, mission specialists will ready the observatory for its scientific survey by performing instrument calibrations, ensuring the telescope reac...

Gravity from Entropy A Radical New Framework for Quantum Gravity

Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)

The Long-Standing Challenge of Quantum Gravity For decades, physicists have grappled with the challenge of unifying quantum mechanics, which governs microscopic...

Japan puts world's most accurate clock on sale for $3.3 mn

Mar 05, 2025 (AFP)

The "Aether clock OC 020" is so precise that it would take 10 billion years for it to deviate by one second, according to its Kyoto-based manufacturer Shimadzu ...

MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material

Mar 01, 2025 (SPX)

In a paper published Jan. 22 in Nature, the team describes how electrons in devices made, in part, of the material can become solid, or form crystals, by changi...