http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there. http://phys.org/news284206733.html Physics Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:19:02 EST news284206733 Surprising connections between very different areas of physics and unexpected spin-offs from theory were explored by quantum physicist Prof. Sir Michael Berry in a lecture entitled "How quantum physics democratised music" held by the IOP on 4 March. http://phys.org/news281865674.html Physics Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:00:05 EST news281865674 (Phys.org)—A field that permeates the universe and gives rise to a new force, or "fifth force," between massive objects may be a candidate for dark energy and an explanation for why the expansion of the universe is accelerating. This field, called the symmetron field, is so named because it has a symmetry in regions of high density, while in regions of low density, such as a vacuum, the symmetry is broken and the field mediates the new force. http://phys.org/news278574377.html Physics Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:00:02 EST news278574377 (Phys.org)—The latest research findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN show that the CMS and ATLAS experiments are now reporting that the significance of their observation of the Higgs-like particle is standing close to the 7 sigma level, well beyond the 5 required for a discovery, and that the new particle's properties appear to be consistent with those of a Standard Model Higgs boson. http://phys.org/news274965814.html Physics Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:23:44 EST news274965814 (Phys.org)—Unraveling the complexities of spin-orbital coupling could someday lead to new high-temperature superconductors and workable quantum computers via an elusive phase of matter called a "quantum spin liquid." Two groups of researchers utilizing x-ray beamlines at the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory are delving into the new physics required to develop just such a material. http://phys.org/news274607239.html Physics Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:47:30 EST news274607239 Today, at the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium in Kyoto, the LHCb collaboration has presented the evidence of a very rare B decay, the rarest ever seen. The result further shrinks the region in which scientists can still look for supersymmetry. http://phys.org/news272002406.html Physics Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:13:50 EST news272002406 (Phys.org)—Techniques for the manipulation of matter at the nano scale are a step further ahead with the publication of new results from a UTS research group. http://phys.org/news271934564.html Nanotechnology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:40:03 EST news271934564 (Phys.org)—In an attempt to solve some of the observational puzzles in physics, theorists have proposed a number of new physics models. Several of these models suggest the existence of extremely weakly interacting lightweight particles with tiny fractional electric charges called minicharged particles (MCPs). Constraining the masses of MCPs could help theorists refine their models, but so far it has been very difficult to detect MCPs. Now in a new study, physicists in Germany have proposed a new search for MCPs based on a new tunneling mechanism called "tunneling of the third kind," which could prove very useful in the search for new physics. http://phys.org/news268459033.html Physics Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:00:01 EST news268459033 (Phys.org)—An electron, as well as other subatomic particles with an electric charge, is actually a little magnet—it spins like a top, giving it its own magnetic moment. http://phys.org/news266560120.html Physics Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:28:54 EST news266560120 Scientists from the XENON collaboration announced a new result from their search for dark matter. The analysis of data taken with the XENON100 detector during 13 months of operation at the Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy) provided no evidence for the existence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the leading dark matter candidates. Two events being observed are statistically consistent with one expected event from background radiation. Compared to their previous 2011 result the world-leading sensitivity has again been improved by a factor of 3.5. This constrains models of new physics with WIMP candidates even further and it helps to target future WIMP searches. A paper with the results is going to be submitted to Physical Review Letters and on the arXiv. http://phys.org/news262002021.html Physics Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:20:40 EST news262002021 Interview with Sandra Kortner of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, who heads a Minerva junior research group at the ATLAS experiment of the LHC and also coordinates an international group of researchers who are using ATLAS to look for the Higgs particle. http://phys.org/news260772353.html Physics Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:46:01 EST news260772353 Physicists said Thursday the potential discovery of the "God particle" was a gateway to a new era that could see humanity unlock some of the universe's great mysteries including dark matter. http://phys.org/news260679543.html Physics Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:10:01 EST news260679543 (PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration demonstrates the superiority of a dynamical quantum simulator over state-of-the-art numerical calculations. http://phys.org/news251105415.html Physics Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:30:53 EST news251105415 Sometimes a scientist can only laugh in the face of a seemingly insurmountable challenge. http://phys.org/news248367083.html Physics Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:51:48 EST news248367083 (PhysOrg.com) -- Interview with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Munich, about the current research results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). http://phys.org/news241344782.html Physics Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:30:01 EST news241344782 Radioactive decay – a random process right? Well, according to some – maybe not. For several years now a team of physicists from Purdue and Stanford have reviewed isotope decay data across a range of different isotopes and detectors – seeing a non-random pattern and searching for a reason. And now, after eliminating all other causes – the team are ready to declare that the cause is... extraterrestrial. http://phys.org/news235027381.html Physics Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:23:55 EST news235027381