Particle Physics

Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Diego Rosales Nanoscale vortices known as skyrmions can be created in many magnetic materials. For the first time, researchers at PSI have managed to create and identify antiferromagnetic…

Trial and error define today's approachWith their enormous computing power, quantum computers are expected to solve important and complex problems in medicine No more testing the way forward: Tomorrow's pharmaceuticals will be discovered…

Credit: Illustration: Denis Baranov, Chalmers University of Technology Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultrastrong coupling between light and…

DOE awards $2.16 million to Jefferson Lab's David Lawrence and Chris Tennant for three-year projects The thrust of nuclear physics is studying the universe down to its smallest subatomic parts. Now, two physicists at the Department of…

Credit: Diamond Light Source & University of Oxford A new paper published today in Nature Energy reveals how a collaborative team of researchers have been able to fully identify the nature of oxidised oxygen in the important…

Theorists publish improved prediction for the tiny difference in kaon decays observed by experimentsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--An international collaboration of theoretical physicists--including scientists from the…

Physicists at Goethe University lead one of the technical refurbishments of "ALICE" for researching quark-gluon plasmaCredit: Robert Münzer FRANKFURT. For the moment, the accelerators at CERN are at rest during the "second long…

Credit: Pickup, L. et. al./Nature Communications Researchers at the Hybrid Photonics Laboratories in Skoltech and Southampton (UK), in collaboration with Lancaster University (UK), have demonstrated a new optical method to…

Credit: University of Exeter Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a "synthetic" Lorentz force -- which in nature is responsible for many fascinating phenomena including the Aurora Borealis.…

Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - A team of scientists led by Kanazawa University proposed a new mathematical framework to understand the properties of the fundamental particles called neutrinos. This work may help…

Credit: Virginia Tech For most people, a coffee stain may go unnoticed, an everyday accident. In the world of physics, though, learning more about why that splotch of coffee dried a certain way could hold the answers to discoveries…

A group of Skoltech scientists used machine learning (ML) methods to predict superhard materials based on their crystal structure. The research was published in the Journal of Applied Physics. This work is supported by Russian Science…

Credit: ZHAO Jingwen With grid-scale renewable energy on the rise, many scholars have shifted their attention from energy generation to energy storage. Whether it is solar cells converting sunlight into power, or windmills…

P-ONE: Initiative for a new, large-scale Neutrino Observatory in the Pacific OceanCredit: Elisa Resconi / TUM The "IceCube" neutrino observatory deep in the ice of the South Pole has already brought spectacular new insights…

Physicists use classical concepts to decipher strange quantum behaviors in an ultracold gas There they were, in all their weird quantum glory: ultracold lithium atoms in the optical trap operated by UC Santa Barbara undergraduate student…

UC Riverside-led study found self-interacting dark matter theory explains why two galaxies have less dark matter than othersCredit: Samantha Tieu RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A new theory about the nature of dark matter helps explain why a…

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Scientists at Osaka University use extremely intense laser pulses to create magnetized-plasma conditions comparable to those surrounding a black hole, study that may help explain the still mysterious X-rays that can be emitted from some…

Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Electric current is everywhere, from powering homes to controlling the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to possibly giving rise to vast cosmic magnetic fields. Now, scientists…