Particle Physics

Credit: University of Illinois Department of Aerospace Engineering Vehicles moving at hypersonic speeds are bombarded with ice crystals and dust particles in the surrounding atmosphere, making the surface material vulnerable to damage such…

Atoms, molecules or even living cells can be manipulated with light beams; at TU Wien a method was developed to revolutionize such 'optical tweezers'Credit: TU Wien They are reminiscent of the "tractor beam" in Star Trek: special light…

Researchers now harnessing antimatter in their search for dark matter A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been performed by the BASE Collaboration at CERN working together with a team at the PRISMA+…

Combining experiments under extreme conditions with theoretical analysis, researchers pursue knowledge that could be used in the future to create a new generation of sustainable functional materials for use in quantum information device or…

Provide ICAO a mandatory information for cosmic ray radiation protection management of aircrewsCredit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, National Institute of Polar Research,…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A team of Brown University researchers will use a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a quantum mechanical magnetic camera, which will take snapshots of weak magnetic fields emanating from…

ATLANTA-Georgia State University chemistry researchers have unlocked one of the mysteries of catalytic reactions on a microscopic scale, allowing for the design of more efficient industrial processes. Catalysts -- which speed up…

New method to explore the surface of nanoparticles, unlike existing chemical procedures which have severe limitationsCredit: SMART The Molecular Probe Adsorption (MPA) method is substantially faster and cheaper than existing…

Credit: Joshua Walker A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have shown that the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) can be used to detect light across a broad optical range - ultraviolet through visible to near-infrared. This work has…

Rice materials scientists detail unexpected distortions in self-assembling polymersCredit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) - What appears to be an impossibly complicated maze is actually quite…