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Quantum Crystal of Frozen Electrons - the Wigner Crystal - is Visualized for the First Time
Phys.org - Fri Apr 12, 2024
PRINCETON, New Jersey - Electrons—the infinitesimally small particles that are known to zip around atoms—continue to amaze scientists despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. More»

Scientists Caught Sperm Defying a Major Law of Physics
Science Alert - Sat Feb 17, 2024
With their whip-like tails, human sperm propel themselves through viscous fluids, seemingly in defiance of Newton's third law of motion, according to a recent study that characterizes the motion of these sex cells and single-celled algae. More»

A Century of Quantum Mechanics Questions the Fundamental Nature of Reality
Science News - Wed Jan 12, 2022
Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. More»

The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks
Quanta Magazine - Tue Aug 31, 2021
In 2013, a masters student in physics named Paul Erker went combing through textbooks and papers looking for an explanation of what a clock is. More»

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
Quanta Magazine - Fri Jul 30, 2021
In a preprint posted online Thursday night, researchers at Google in collaboration with physicists at Stanford, Princeton and other universities say that they have used Google’s quantum computer to demonstrate a genuine “time crystal. More»

Is Reality a Game of Quantum Mirrors?
SciTech Daily - Tue Jul 6, 2021
Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. More»

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve
Quanta Magazine - Sun Jun 13, 2021
Over the past century, quantum field theory has proved to be the single most sweeping and successful physical theory ever invented. More»

New quantum material discovered
Phys Org - Mon May 24, 2021
In everyday life, phase transitions usually have to do with temperature changes—for example, when an ice cube gets warmer and melts. More»

Physicists Prove That the Imaginary Part of Quantum Mechanics Really Exists!
SciTech Daily - Wed Apr 28, 2021
For almost a century, physicists have been intrigued by the fundamental question: why are complex numbers so important in quantum mechanics, that is, numbers containing a component with the imaginary number i? Usually, it was assumed that they are only a mathematical trick to facilitate the description of phenomena, and only results expressed in real numbers have a physical meaning. More»

More Results From The Large Hadron Collider Point to Entirely New Physics
Science Alert - Wed Mar 24, 2021
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment is still insisting there's a flaw in our best model of particle physics. More»

'Spooky' quantum movements seen happening to large objects, scientists say
The Independent - Sat Jul 4, 2020
Scientists have seen "spooky" quantum behaviour happening to objects at the human scale, according to a new paper. More»

Physicists Have Filmed The Moment an Atom Undergoes a Quantum Measurement
Science Alert - Sun Mar 1, 2020
Before it's observed, an electron is a hot mess of possibility. More»

A Physicist Has a Bold Plan to Make a Gamma-Ray Laser With The Help of Antimatter
Science Alert - Sun Dec 15, 2019
We can use just about any part of the electromagnetic spectrum to make a laser - from long-wave microwaves to bursts of highly powerful X-rays. More»

2,000 Atoms Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
Live Science - Sat Oct 5, 2019
Giant molecules can be in two places at once, thanks to quantum physics. More»

Stephen Hawking dies aged 76
BBC - Tue Mar 13, 2018
The British theoretical physicist was known for his groundbreaking work with black holes and relativity, and was the author of several popular science books including A Brief History of Time. More»

"Negative mass" created at Washington State University
Resonance Science Foundation - Fri Aug 18, 2017
Washington State University physicists have created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like. More»

This Quantum Theory Predicts That The Future Might Be Influencing The Past
Science Alert - Thu Jul 6, 2017
One of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics could be explained by an equally weird idea - that causation can run backwards in time as well as forwards. More»

Scientists Have Confirmed A Brand New Form Of Matter: Time Crystals
Science Alert - Fri Jan 27, 2017
For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals - strange crystals that have an atomic structure that repeats not just in space, but in time, putting them in perpetual motion without energy. More»

New Evidence Could Overthrow the Standard View of Quantum Mechanics
Wired - Fri May 20, 2016
Of the many counterintuitive features of quantum mechanics, perhaps the most challenging to our notions of common sense is that particles do not have locations until they are observed. More»

'Zeno Effect' Verified-Atoms Won't Move While You Watch
Phys.org - Fri Oct 23, 2015
One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory - that a system can't change while you're watching it - has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. More»

Quantum Harmonies: Modern Physics and Music
PBS - Wed Sep 10, 2014
From Pythagoras to string theory, explore the surprising connections between music and physics. More»

Subatomic calculations indicate finite lifespan for universe
Reuters - Tue Feb 19, 2013
BOSTON - Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but add up the numbers and it's not looking good for the future of the universe, scientists said Monday. More»

Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC
BBC - Wed Jul 4, 2012
Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. More»

Scientists: Particles appear to travel faster than light
CNN - Thu Sep 22, 2011
Scientists in Switzerland say an experiment appears to show that tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light - a result that would seem to defy the laws of nature. More»

'God particle' goes missing: Higgs boson 'may not exist' say Hadron Collider scientists
The Daily Mail - Wed Sep 14, 2011
Signals reported in July seemed to indicate that the Higgs boson - a long-theorised particle seen as a missing link in our current understanding of physics - might have been detected among data the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. More»

Leafy Green Coherence: Quantum Physics Fuels Photosynthesis
Wired - Wed Jul 7, 2010
Not so long ago, quantum physics at room temperature was found mostly in classroom discussions or over science-geek cocktails. More»

Large Hadron Collider: Damaged by a Time-Traveling Bird?
Time - Wed Nov 11, 2009
Sometime on November 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. More»

New Class Of Black Hole Could Explain Cosmic Leviathans
AFP - Tue Jun 30, 2009
PARIS - Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies. More»

Star Trek's Warp Drive: Not Impossible
Live Science - Wed May 6, 2009
The warp drive, one of Star Trek's hallmark inventions, could someday become science instead of science fiction. More»

Electricity Measured Inside Space Tornadoes
Space.com - Fri Apr 24, 2009
Dorothy's tornado was nothing compared to the giant swirls of plasma that storm in outer space. More»

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