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Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)

Recently, such techniques have also been applied to small particles in the nano- and micro-metre range. This already works quite well for individual particles -...

Clear sign that QGP production 'turns off' at low energy

Feb 28, 2023 (SPX)

The findings, just published by RHIC's STAR Collaboration in Physical Review Letters, will help physicists map out the conditions of temperature and density und...

Unusual atom helps in search for Universe's building blocks

Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)

Dr Jacinda Ginges, from UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics, said the unusual atom - made up of an ordinary caesium atom and an elementary particle called a ...

Weighing OJ 287 and the project MOMO

Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)

The results show that an exceptionally massive black hole exceeding 10 billion solar masses is no longer needed. Instead, the results favor models with a smalle...

Novel quantum entanglement lets researchers spy on atomic nuclei

Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)

The finding was made possible using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, which is capable of colliding ...

Chandra discovers giant black holes on collision course

Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)

Collisions between the pairs of dwarf galaxies identified in a new study have pulled gas towards the giant black holes they each contain, causing the black hole...

WVU physicists give the first law of thermodynamics a makeover

Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)

Paul Cassak, professor and associate director of the Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics, and graduate research assistant Hasan Barbhuiya, both in the Department ...

Physicists create new model of ringing black holes

Feb 22, 2023 (SPX)

"Nonlinear effects are what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash" says Keefe Mitman, a Caltech graduate student who works with Saul Teukolsky (PhD '7...

Putting particle accelerator cavities to the test

Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)

Now, the Vertical Test Area that was created to help build Jefferson Lab's main particle accelerator has hit another milestone: In 2022, it conducted a mind-bog...

How to reverse unknown quantum processes

Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)

Everyday life is full of changes that are well understood, yet practically impossible to reverse, for example, the metamorphosis of a dandelion into a blowball....

Ghostly neutrinos provide new path to study protons

Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)

But because they are so abundant, they play a large role in helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the universe. In groundbreaking research descr...

The bubbling universe: A previously unknown phase transition in the early universe

Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)

This is roughly the idea of what happened in the very early universe, right after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago. The idea comes from particle physicists ...

High-energy neutrino beam measures the unmeasurable proton

Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)

Unable to see the subatomic particles, researchers, including those from the University of Warwick, relied on extremely light particles known as neutrinos. The ...

Physicists observe rare resonance in molecules for the first time

Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)

Resonance also occurs at the much smaller scale of atoms and molecules. When particles chemically react, it's partly due to specific conditions that resonate wi...

New ice is like a snapshot of liquid water

Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)

The new form of ice is amorphous. Unlike ordinary crystalline ice where the molecules arrange themselves in a regular pattern, in amorphous ice the molecules ar...

Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe

Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)

A group of scientists, including several with the University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have released one of the most precise measure...

Scientists observe quasiparticles in classical systems for the first time

Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)

Many solids or liquids are composed of particles interacting with one another at close distances, which sometimes results in the rise of "quasiparticles." Quasi...

Astral alchemy

Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)

For a long time, it was thought to be a particular excited state of three quarks-up, down, and strange-and understanding its internal structure may help us lear...

Electrons in the fast lane

Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)

By using extreme short laser flashes, a team of researchers led by Professor Eleftherios Goulielmakis, head of the group Extreme Photonics of the institute for ...

'Exotic hadrons' research to advance knowledge of nuclear physics

Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)

As part of this work, IU's Adam Szczepaniak is leading a project called "ExoHad," which explores the physics of exotic hadrons - a largely unexplored group of s...