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CERN's curved magnet prototype promises advancements in particle physics and medicine
What do rope winding and giant pasta shapes have to do with particle physics? The answer is a new superconducting magnet prototype under development at CERN, lovingly named Fusillo because of its shape.
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Can measuring nothing … do something? Cooling vibrations with zero-photon detection
Experiments coupling light and sound reveal the surprising effect that measuring nothing can cool the vibrations of an object.
Optics & Photonics
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Scientists map elusive liquid-liquid transition point using deep neural network
A new Nature Physics study has shed light on the long-hypothesized liquid-liquid critical point where water simultaneously exists in two distinct liquid forms, opening new possibilities for experimental validation.

Unexpected shape of lead-208 nucleus prompts reevaluation of atomic nuclei models
An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is perfectly spherical. The discovery ...
General Physics
Feb 22, 2025
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New calculation links disparate pion reactions in nuclear physics
An early-career physicist mathematically connects timelike and spacelike form factors, opening the door to further insights into the inner workings of the strong force. A new lattice QCD calculation connects two seemingly ...
General Physics
Feb 22, 2025
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Scientists map the forces acting inside a proton
Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks—the tiny particles within—respond when hit by high-energy photons.
General Physics
Feb 21, 2025
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Hypercharge breaking scenarios could explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe
The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of the symmetries it describes ...

What can theoretical physics teach us about knitting?
The practice of purposely looping thread to create intricate knit garments and blankets has existed for millennia. Though its precise origins have been lost to history, artifacts like a pair of wool socks from ancient Egypt ...
General Physics
Feb 21, 2025
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Nickel superconductor works above -233°C threshold at normal pressure
A team of engineers and physicists at Southern University of Science and Technology, in China, has created a nickel-based material that behaves as a superconductor above the -233°C (40 K) threshold under ambient pressure. ...

Self-imaging of structured light in cylindrical systems unveils a new form of space-time duality
Photonics researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Kastler-Brossel Laboratory, France, have demonstrated how self-imaging of light, a phenomenon known for nearly two centuries, can be applied to cylindrical systems, ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 21, 2025
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Microcomb chips show potential for centimeter-level GPS precision
Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex to be widely used in society.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 21, 2025
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High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
Rain can freefall at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour. If the droplets land in a puddle or pond, they can form a crown-like splash that, with enough force, can dislodge any surface particles and launch them into the air.
Soft Matter
Feb 21, 2025
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Magnetic 'invisibility cloak' hides obstacles within particle streams
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a particle stream. Until now, this so-called cloaking had only been studied for waves such as light ...
General Physics
Feb 21, 2025
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Ultrasound-activated microbubbles form high-speed jets for drug delivery
ETH Zurich researchers have investigated how tiny gas bubbles can deliver drugs into cells in a targeted manner using ultrasound. For the first time, they have visualized how tiny cyclic microjets liquid jets generated by ...
Soft Matter
Feb 21, 2025
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Optical fiber link to make CERN more on time than ever
A new optical fiber link between CERN and Paris will provide the Laboratory with an accurate frequency reference, enhancing precision and supporting experiments like ALPHA in their search for matter–antimatter differences.
General Physics
Feb 21, 2025
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Newly realized nuclear-spin dark state promises reduced quantum decoherence
Quantum computers, which operate leveraging quantum mechanics phenomena, could eventually tackle some optimization and computational problems faster and more efficiently than their classical counterparts. Instead of bits, ...

Topological quantum processor uses Majorana zero modes for fault-tolerant computing
In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built as a proof-of-concept ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 20, 2025
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Microwave-to-optics transduction: Research demonstrates readout technique for superconducting qubits
Joint research demonstrating the ability to readout superconducting qubits with an optical transducer was published in Nature Physics.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 20, 2025
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Microsoft joins quantum race with breakthrough chip
Tech giant Microsoft unveiled a new computer chip on Wednesday that it says could transform everything from fighting pollution to developing new medicines, joining Google and IBM in arguing that the promise of quantum computing ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 20, 2025
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Pushing the limits of 'custom-made' microscopy: 3D imaging of light-sensitive samples now 1,000 times faster
EMBL tech developers have made an important leap forward with a novel methodology that adds an important microscopy capability to life scientists' toolbox. The advance represents a 1,000-fold improvement in speed and throughput ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 20, 2025
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