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Highly charged muonic ions observed in gas-phase experiment for first time
An international team of researchers, including members from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), has directly observed "highly charged muonic ions," a completely new class ...
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Expanding the border of superheavy nuclei—new seaborgium isotope discovered
An international research team led by GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has succeeded in the production of a new seaborgium isotope. In the experiment conducted at the ...
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Jun 18, 2025
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5D model accurately predicts nuclear fission in elements beyond uranium and plutonium
A five-dimensional (5D) Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately reproduces complex fission fragment distributions and kinetic energies in medium-mass ...
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Jun 18, 2025
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Message in a bubble: Physics enables encoding of messages in ice
Inspired by naturally occurring air bubbles in glaciers, researchers have developed a method to encode messages in ice.
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Jun 18, 2025
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Physicists validate ratio method for studying halo nuclei
Theories must stand up to practical testing, and this is especially true in physics. Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Texas A&M University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Surrey ...
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Jun 17, 2025
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Thermodynamics revisited: Study solves 120-year-old problem and corrects one of Einstein's ideas
Nernst's theorem—a general experimental observation presented in 1905 that entropy exchanges tend to zero when the temperature tends to zero—has been directly linked to the second principle of thermodynamics in a paper ...
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Jun 17, 2025
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Better basketball through theoretical physics
A Cornell research team has employed a variation of a theory first used to predict the collective actions of electrons in quantum mechanical systems to a much taller, human system—the National Basketball Association.
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Jun 16, 2025
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What is uranium enrichment and how is it used for nuclear bombs? A scientist explains
Late last week, Israel targeted three of Iran's key nuclear facilities—Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely underground, and there are ...
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Jun 16, 2025
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Decoding high energy physics with AI and machine learning
In the world of particle physics, where scientists unravel the mysteries of the universe, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are making waves with how they're increasing understanding of the most fundamental ...
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Jun 13, 2025
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Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica
A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has detected a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. ...
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Jun 13, 2025
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3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without electricity
In a study published in Science Advances, researchers from Technical University of Denmark and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid demonstrate a new device called an acoustic rainbow emitter (ARE) that takes in broadband white-noise ...
With potential implications for mechanical systems, study reveals physics of the 'nick shot' in squash
In squash, the "nick shot" is an emphatic, point-ending play in which a player strikes a ball that ricochets near the bottom of the wall and rolls flat along the floor instead of bouncing, leaving an opponent with no chance ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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Cellular coordinate system reveals secrets of active matter
All humans who have ever lived were once each an individual cell, which then divided countless times to produce a body made up of about 10 trillion cells. These cells have busy lives, executing all kinds of dynamic movement: ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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Unprecedented optical clock network lays groundwork for redefining the second
In a new study, researchers carried out the most extensive coordinated comparison of optical clocks to date by operating clocks and the links connecting them simultaneously across six countries. Spanning thousands of kilometers, ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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Q&A: Physics and the value of scientific disappointment
Sharing disappointing results with a world of researchers working to find what they hope will be the "discovery of the century" isn't an easy task, but that is what Penn State theoretical physicist Zoltan Fodor and his international ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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Recent developments in klystron technology for future energy-efficient colliders
The Higgs boson is the most intriguing and unusual object yet discovered by fundamental science. There is no higher experimental priority for particle physics than building an electron–positron collider to produce it copiously ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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Decades-old mystery of AlCl dipole moment resolved
In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the electric dipole moment ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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Here's what happens when quark-gluon plasma 'splashes' during the most energetic particle collisions
New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveals how the primordial soup generated in the ...
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Jun 11, 2025
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Charge-parity symmetry breaking revealed in Rydberg atom multibody systems
A research team has observed multibody interaction-induced EPs and hysteresis trajectories in cold Rydberg atomic gases. They revealed the phenomenon of charge-conjugation parity (CP) symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian multibody ...
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Jun 11, 2025
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Deciphering the behavior of heavy particles in the hottest matter in the universe
An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves toward a better understanding of the behavior of some of the heaviest particles in the universe under extreme conditions, which are similar to those ...
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Jun 10, 2025
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