University of Chicago scientists have been able to create a new kind of quantum object at will in the laboratory: "domain walls."
Quantum Physics
Feb 11, 2022
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Since its launch on Christmas day, astronomers have eagerly followed the complex deployment and unfurling of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope—the largest to ever take to the skies.
Astronomy
Feb 10, 2022
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Embark on a mission with ESA astronomers Mark McCaughrean and Giovanna Giardino to learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope and the early Universe.
Astronomy
Feb 4, 2022
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Phase transitions are everywhere, ranging from water boiling to snowflakes melting, and from magnetic transitions in solids to cosmological phase transitions in the early universe. Particularly intriguing are quantum phase ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 20, 2022
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The laws of physics underlying everyday life are, at one level of description, completely known, and can be summarized in a single elegant—if quite complex—equation. That's the claim physicist Sean Carroll, an SFI Fractal ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 17, 2022
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,A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but far larger than Hubble's celebrated Ultra Deep Field Image. This Hubble ...
Astronomy
Jan 11, 2022
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In a Physics Review Letters paper published on Dec 15th, an international research team, led by Cai Yifu, professor of the University of Science and Technology of China, and his collaborators discovered the hypothetical possibility ...
General Physics
Jan 3, 2022
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The early universe was dark, filled with a hot soup of opaque particles. These condensed to form neutral hydrogen which coalesced to form the first stars in what astronomers call the epoch of reionisation (EoR).
Astronomy
Dec 14, 2021
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Argonne scientists Lindsey Bleem and Clarence Chang talk about what it's like to look for signals from the early universe from the South Pole Telescope.
Astronomy
Dec 14, 2021
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A new concept has been developed that has the potential to assist new instruments in the investigation of fundamental science topics such as gravitational waves and dark matter.
Optics & Photonics
Dec 8, 2021
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