How Chaos Theory Relates Two Seemingly Different Areas of Physics
A new study at TU Wien has revealed how chaos theory connects quantum theory and thermodynamics, two seemingly separate areas of physics. A single particle…
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Seemingly Magical – How To Fire Projectiles Through Materials Without Breaking Anything
Researchers at Vienna University of Technology have discovered why sometimes spectacular micro-explosions occur and other times ultra-thin layers of material remain almost intact when charged…
Scientists Augment Reality To Crack the Code of Quantum Systems
A new method for simulating quantum entanglement between interacting particles has been developed by physicists. Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality in order to crack the…
LCLS Probes Microscopic Components of Air Pollution
While working with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of scientists showed that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing…
Fermilab Narrows the Gap Between the Masses of Neutrinos and Antineutrinos
MINOS scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory revealed the world’s most precise measurement of the parameter called delta m squared, closing the measured gap…
Search for Neutrino Properties at EXO-200 Reveals First Results
While studying neutrino properties and searching for a mechanism called “neutrinoless double-beta decay,” scientists at the Enriched Xenon Observatory 200 found with the highest degree…
Unexpected Graphite Experiment Results Raise New Questions
While using a technique to simultaneously blast and probe samples of graphite, scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory saw ultrafast changes from solid to liquid…
Gamma Rays Conclusions Based on Fermi Data
Roughly four years after Fermi began studying gamma-rays, a soon-to-be-published study documents interesting findings. It turns out that the Crab Nebula and other individual point…
Splitting of an Electron into the Spinon and Orbiton
While using X-rays from the Swiss Light Source (SLS) fired at Sr2CuO3, physicists at the Paul Scherrer Institute observed an electron splitting into two new…
ICARUS Experiment Claims Neutrinos Aren’t Faster Than Light
A new Italian experiment indicates that neutrinos stay within the speed of light. The findings were posted on arXiv.org as a preprint, and contradict rival…
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…
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…
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Search for “Supersolids”
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are searching for the quantum state of matter called supersolidity. Now conducting research at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, Hans…
Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt’s Charged Electrons Heading for Space Not Surface
The increase in solar activity has become quite obvious on Earth, thanks to the increase in auroras caused by geomagnetic storms, but while astronomers had…
