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Laser technique enables powerful smaller particle accelerators

Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)

Accelerating electrons to such high energies in a laboratory setting, however, is challenging: typically, the more energetic the electrons, the bigger the parti...

Water-balloon physics is high-impact science

Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)

Using custom-made air cannons and high-speed photography, Princeton researchers have established the definitive physical rules governing capsule impact, a resea...

Does relativity lie at the source of quantum exoticism?

Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)

Since the arrival of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, physicists have lost sleep over the incompatibility of these three concepts (three, since t...

Discovery by UMass Lowell-led team challenges nuclear theory

Apr 02, 2020 (SPX)

The breakthrough by the researchers revealed that a symmetry that exists within the core of the atom is not as fundamental as scientists have believed. The disc...

Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-sized black hole

Apr 02, 2020 (SPX)

Weighing in at about 50,000 times the mass of our Sun, the black hole is smaller than the supermassive black holes (at millions or billions of solar masses) tha...

Zero-energy bound states in the high-temperature superconductors at 2-dimensional limit

Apr 01, 2020 (SPX)

Meanwhile, the European Union has launched a 1 billion euro quantum flagship, and U.S., Britain, Germany, Japan, etc., have also made important strategic layout...

ALMA resolves gas impacted by young jets from supermassive black hole

Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)

It is commonly known that black holes exert strong gravitational attraction on surrounding matter. However, it is less well known that some black holes have fas...

Holographic cosmological model and thermodynamics on the horizon of the universe

Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)

However, the LCDM model suffers from several theoretical difficulties, such as the cosmological constant problem. To resolve these difficulties, alternative the...

Physics laws cannot always turn back time

Mar 24, 2020 (SPX)

Most basic laws in physics have no problem with the direction in which they run. They are, as scientists call it, symmetric with respect to time, or time symmet...

How to seed supermassive black holes shortly after the big bang

Mar 24, 2020 (SPX)

Thanks to an original model theorized by the scientists from Trieste, the study proposes a very fast formation process in the initial phases of the development ...

Chandra Data Tests Theory of Everything

Mar 20, 2020 (SPX)

Despite having many different versions of string theory circulating throughout the physics community for decades, there have been very few experimental tests. A...

Dancing electrons solve a longstanding puzzle in the oldest magnetic material

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

This extraordinarily complex phase transformation, which was discovered in the 1940s and is known as the Verwey transition, was the first metal-insulator transi...

Frozen-planet states in exotic helium atoms

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

A new study by Tasko Grozdanov from the University of Belgrade in Serbia and Evgeni Solov'ev from the Institute of Nuclear Research near Moscow in Russia has ma...

Black hole team discovers path to razor-sharp black hole images

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

"The image of a black hole actually contains a nested series of rings," explains Michael Johnson of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA)....

Long-distance fiber link poised to create powerful networks of optical clocks

Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)

"The laser system used for optical clocks is extremely complex and thus not practical to build at multiple locations," said Tomoya Akatsuka, a member of the res...

Discovery of zero-energy bound states at both ends of a one-dimensional atomic line defect

Mar 14, 2020 (SPX)

Therefore, the exploration of fault-tolerant quantum computation using quantum states topologically protected against local environmental perturbations is an im...

Breakthrough made towards building the world's most powerful particle accelerator

Mar 11, 2020 (SPX)

This breakthrough has been carried out by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration, which includes many UK scientists, as well as Professor M...

Paper sheds light on infant Universe and origin of matter

Mar 11, 2020 (SPX)

In the paper "Axiogenesis," scheduled to be published in Physical Review Letters on March 17, 2020, researchers Keisuke Harigaya, Member in the School of Natura...

New telescope observations shed new light on black hole ejections

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

A research team based at Oxford University used e-MERLIN, as well as the VLA and MeerKAT telescopes based in the US and South Africa respectively, to track the ...

Tracking down the mystery of matter

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

The Big Bang created both the matter in the universe and the antimatter - at least according to the established theory. Since the two mutually annihilate each o...