Scientists have been upgrading the Large Hadron Collider (pictured) for the past few years. On April 22, they successfully directed protons through the upgraded accelerator. Credit: Scientific American.After a three-year recess, protons have begun circulating once more in the particle acceleratorAfter a respite of over three years, the Large Hadron Collider is back.The Large...
Fusion could create more energy than any other process that could be produced on Earth. Credit: ShutterstockThere has been significant excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, suggesting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works-- it is the...
The electrons of some metal oxides, due to their vast effective mass when combined with the ionic lattice of the material, can not comply with the electric field of light and allow it to pass through the material. Transparent and conductive materials are made use of in smartphone touch displays and solar panels for...
Scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed the validity of the relativity theory with the highest possible accuracy in a study entitled "Exploring Lorentz Invariance Violation from Ultrahigh-Energy γRays Observed by LHAASO," which was published in the most recent issue of Physical Review Letters.According to Einstein's...
Information about a quantum state is split into three information contents (i.e., information gain, disturbance, and reversibility). Credit: Hong et al.Scientists at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have attempted to capture the interaction between different kinds of information that are essential while gathering quantum measurements, specifically information gain, disturbance, and reversibility. Their paper, released...
To study superconducting materials in their “normal,” non-superconducting state, scientists usually switch off superconductivity by exposing the material to a magnetic field (left). SLAC scientists discovered that turning off superconductivity with a flash of light (right), produces a normal state with very similar fundamental physics that is also unstable and demonstrates brief flashes of...
University of Chicago researchers discovered how to create and manipulate a quantum phenomenon known as a “domain wall” – shown in this image as the lighter line between two groups of atoms. (Image adapted and color added from experiment data). Credit: Illustration by Kai-Xuan YaoControlled for the very first time, the quantum phenomenon might...
Credit: Brian KoberleinThe nature of dark matter stills astonishes astronomers. As the search for dark matter particles keeps on turning up nothing, it is tempting to throw away the dark matter model altogether, but indirect evidence for the stuff remains to be strong. So what is it? One team has an idea, and they...
Physicists have found evidence of rare X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The findings could redefine the kinds of particles that were abundant in the early universe. Credit: CERNIn the initial millionths of a second after the Big Bang, our universe was an agitated pull...
A quark gluon plasma after the collision of two heavy nuclei. Credit: TU WienCan machine learning be used to reveal the secrets of the quark-gluon plasma?Yes, it can. However, only with advanced new methods.It can hardly be more complicated. Little particles whir around wildly with extremely high energy, many interactions happen in the...
