Bird's: eyesight of the underground Daya Bay far detector hall throughout the installation. The four antineutrino detectors are immersed in a large pool filled with ultra-pure water. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, BerkeleyThe Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment has created the most precise measurement yet of theta13, an essential parameter for comprehending how neutrinos transform their "taste."BEIJING;...
Fig. 1: Schematic view of the 3He+ ion’s external and internal magnetic interactions. Background: microwave radiation. Credit: MPIIn joint experimental-theoretical research published in Nature, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), together with collaborators from RIKEN, Japan, investigated the magnetic properties of the isotope helium-3. For the first time, the electronic and...
Nuclear fusion. Credit: The Conversation.The reinforcement learning algorithm, which controls the scorching plasma within a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, was developed by an AI company backed by Google.The interior of a tokamak– the doughnut-shaped vessel created to include a nuclear fusion reaction– presents a unique type of chaos. Hydrogen atoms are shattered together at...
In a new experiment, scientists created two time crystals inside the superfluid, and brought them to touch. Credit: SciTechdaily.Time crystals were long considered impractical because their continuous movement would seem to challenge the laws of physics. Utilizing quantum physics, scientists have developed time crystals and now proved that they can power helpful tools in...
Researchers have developed self-assembled, protein-based circuits that can do simple logic functions in proof-of-concept research. The work demonstrates that it is possible to develop stable digital circuits that benefit from an electron's properties at quantum scales.Molecular circuitsOne of the stumbling blocks in developing molecular circuits is that the circuits become unreliable as the circuit...
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...
