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Physicists reverse time using quantum computer

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

"This is one in a series of papers on the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics. That law is closely related to the notion of the arrow of t...

Astronomers discover 83 supermassive black holes in early universe

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

Supermassive black holes are found at the centers of galaxies, and have masses millions or even billions of times that of the Sun. While they are prevalent in t...

Can artificial intelligence solve the mysteries of quantum physics?

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

Quantum physics phenomena is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It looks at how particles in nature "come together" and bring along their unique...

'Meta-mirror' reflects sound waves in any direction

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The research appeared online on February 15 in the journal Science Advances. "When you look into an everyday mirror, the light follows the Law of Reflection: th...

CERN Approves Hunt for New Cosmic Particles at Large Hadron Collider

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Initiated by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, the five-year FASER project is funded by grants of $1 million each from the Heising-Simons Foun...

Listening to quantum radio

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

We have all been annoyed by weak radio signals at some point in our lives: our favourite song in the car turning to noise, being too far away from our wifi rout...

Tuning quantum vacuum forces from attractive to repulsive

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

In 1948, Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrick Casimir first predicted an attractive force responsible for this effect - - later dubbed the Casimir effect. A hal...

Can Entangled Qubits Be Used to Probe Black Holes

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Scrambling is what happens when matter disappears inside a black hole. The information attached to that matter - the identities of all its constituents, down to...

New report on industrial physics and its role in the US economy

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The report, "The Impact of Industrial Physics on the U.S. Economy," found that industrial physics contributed an estimated $2.3 trillion in 2016, which was 12.6...

Scientists levitate particles with sound to find out how they cluster together

Mar 08, 2019 (SPX)

"Much of the universe is made up of particles assembling," said Heinrich Jaeger, the Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, who co-authored a ...

New collection of Einstein documents unveiled in Israel

Mar 06, 2019 (UPI)

Einstein, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, is perhaps best known for his general theory of relativity, which transformed particle physics and cosmolog...

Ultracold atoms could provide 2D window to exotic 1D physics

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

"There's a process in strongly interacting physics where fundamental particles, like electrons, can come together and behave as if they were a fraction of an el...

Hiding black hole found

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

Black holes are objects with such strong gravity that everything, including light, is sucked in and cannot escape. Because black holes do not emit light, astron...

Optical clocks started the calibration of the international atomic time

Mar 05, 2019 (SPX)

Primary frequency standards based on the cesium microwave clock transition or a secondary standard based on a rubidium microwave transition have long played a r...

A trap for positrons

Mar 01, 2019 (SPX)

This is an important step towards creating a matter-antimatter plasma of electrons and positrons, like the plasmas believed to occur near neutron stars and blac...

Exotic spiraling electrons discovered by physicists

Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)

It's called a "chiral surface exciton," and it consists of particles and anti-particles bound together and swirling around each other on the surface of solids, ...

Where is the Universe Hiding its Missing Mass?

Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)

From independent, well-established observations, scientists have confidently calculated how much normal matter - meaning hydrogen, helium and other elements - e...

Philosophy: What exactly is a black hole?

Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)

However, as an article in the January issue of the journal Nature Astronomy demonstrates, a precise and agreed definition of this 'singular' state proves to be ...

Lightning's electromagnetic fields may have protective properties

Feb 11, 2019 (SPX)

These electromagnetic fields - the result of global lightning activity known as Schumann Resonances - are weak and difficult to detect. Scientists never suspect...

Scientists simulate a black hole in a water tank

Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)

This possibility is explored in a new article published in Physical Review Letters. Physicist Mauricio Richartz, a professor at the Federal University of the AB...