Researchers Explain Mysterious Nanoscale Crop Circles
Three years after their initial encounter, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have explained what’s happening with the “nanoscale crop…
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Nucleons in a Dense Nucleus Exceed 25 Percent of the Speed of Light
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratories have demonstrated that a quarter of the nucleons in a dense nucleus…
Researchers Discover Electrical Switch for Magnetic Current
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute used a short electric pulse to change the magnetic transport properties of a material sandwich consisting of a ferroelectric…
Evidence of Elusive Majorana Fermions Raises Possibilities for Quantum Computing
It’s been reported that researchers in the Leo Kouwenhoven group, based out of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, might have beaten several…
Researchers Unveil the World’s Most Precise Measurement of the W Boson Mass
Based on data gathered at the Tevatron accelerator, researchers from the CDF collaboration have just unveiled the world’s most precise measurement of the W boson…
Iron-Based Crystal Superconductor Breaks High-Temperature Record
Superconductivity, a phenomenon that works only at temperatures close to absolute zero, has been proven to work at higher temperatures, as much as 70 kelvin….
Possible Mistakes Found in Faster Than Light Neutrino Measurement
Back in September, the revolutionary claim that the OPERA collaboration had measured neutrinos traveling faster than the speed has light is now in doubt, as…
NIST Researches the Use of Switching Mechanisms in Advanced Computer Memory Device
Using ferromagnetic metals for the electrodes, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology built a layered switching device to better…
Researchers to Redefine the Kilogram in Terms of Planck’s Constant
Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory are one step closer to changing the international definition of the kilogram. By using technology produced by the NPL,…
Researching the Properties of Relativistic Electron Vortex Beams
Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) have developed a theory that provides an understanding of relativistic electron vortex beams. Through the combined consideration…
Researchers Create Electron Vortex Beams Inside Electron Microscopes
Researchers at the University of York have created electron beams with orbital angular momentum, electron vortex beams, which improve the resolution and sensitivity of imaging….
Yale Physicists Take Significant Step in the Development of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing has taken another step forward as physicists at Yale University demonstrate the most basic form of quantum error correction — a way to…
Quantum Entanglement of 8 Photons Successfully Accomplished by Physicists
In quantum mechanics, entanglement allows two or more particles separated in space to have the same physical properties, which are correlated. This means that if…
Two-Dimensional Polymers Created for the First Time
For the first time ever, scientists at the Polymers Institute of ETH Zurich have created two-dimensional polymers. They researched polymers with three or more covalent…
‘Collapsing’ Iron Superconductor Capable of Operating at 47 Degrees Kelvin
A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland discovered an iron-based superconductor capable of operating at…
Higgs Boson Signals Gain Strength at Large Hadron Collider
In December, it was announced that the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is still the world’s largest and highest-energy particle…
JILA Scientists Create the World’s First Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Frequency Comb
By injecting xenon gas into an optical cavity while using a high-power laser to generate infrared light pulses that bounce back and forth and overlap…
Researchers Demonstrate a Quantum Connection Between Light and Mechanics
By using a laser to illuminate an object, physicists in the EPFL’s Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurement have shown that it is possible to…
