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Researchers discover highest ever melting point

Jul 28, 2015 (UPI)

Researchers at Brown University -- with the help of complex computer models -- have predicted a substance with a melting point higher than any previously studie...

Drawing a line between quantum and classical world

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of 20th century science, yet physicists have struggled to find a clear boundary between our everyday world and w...

Deja-vu, new theory says dark matter acts like well-known particle

Jul 24, 2015 (SPX)

A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s. We owe a lot to dark matter - it is the thing kee...

After 85-year search, massless particle with promise for next-generation electronics found

Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)

An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered Weyl fermions, an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago. The particle cou...

Weyl points: Wanted for 86 years

Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)

Weyl points, the 3D analogues of the structures that make graphene exceptional, were theoretically predicted in 1929. Today, an international team of Physicists...

Old astronomic riddle on the way to be solved

Jul 16, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Basel were able to identify for the first time a molecule responsible for the absorption of starlight in space: the positively c...

Law governing anomalous heat conduction revealed

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

How heat travels, matters. Yet, there is still no consensus on the exact physical mechanism that causes anomalous heat conduction - despite the existence of pre...

Constant change

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

The fundamental constants that govern the laws of nature are being determined with increasing accuracy, according to a review paper published this week in Journ...

Syracuse physicists confirm existence of rare pentaquarks discovery

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have confirmed the existence of two rare pentaquark states. Their discovery, which has taken pl...

Revealed: Positronium's behavior in particle billiards

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

Collision physics can be like a game of billiards. Yet in the microscopic world, the outcome of the game is hard to predict. Fire a particle at a group of other...

More precise estimate of Avogadro's number to help redefine kilogram

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent efforts from a team researchers from Italy, Japan and Germany to corr...

Major development in the understanding of macroscopic quantum behavior

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

For the first time, the wavelike behaviour of a room-temperature polariton condensate has been demonstrated in the laboratory on a macroscopic length scale. Thi...

Bristol researchers revisit two-ball bounce problem

Jul 14, 2015 (UPI)

As any high-schooler will attest, there is no shortage of ways to demonstrate the frustrating complexities of physics. But one problem stands out as a favorite ...

Clay sheets stack to form proton conductors

Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)

Northwestern Engineering professor Jiaxing Huang has developed a cheaper, more stable proton-conducting system. To find the key ingredient, he had to look no fu...

An elusive molecule -- finally revealed

Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered a mysterious molecule with a structure simple enough to make it into high school textbooks, yet so elusi...

The quantum physics of artificial light harvesting

Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)

Plants and bacteria make use of sunlight with remarkably high efficiency: nine out of ten absorbed light particles are being put to use in an ordinary bacterium...

Researcher devises method to untangle, analyze 'controlled chaos'

Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)

A researcher at Indiana University has developed a new mathematical framework to more effectively analyze "controlled chaos," or how interactions among highly c...

Physicists confirm rare pentaquarks discovery

Jul 14, 2015 (UPI)

Researchers have confirmed the existence of two pentaquark states, rare subatomic particles made up of five quarks. The discovery has major implications for the...

Clues to inner atomic life from subtle light-emission shifts

Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)

Atoms absorb and emit light of various wavelengths. Physicists have long known that there are some tiny changes, or shifts, in the light that gets absorbed or e...

A precocious black hole

Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)

Black holes can be found at the centres of most galaxies. Most have little mass compared with their host galaxy. ETH researchers, however, have discovered a par...