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International collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics
Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled new insights into the interplay between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The team demonstrated that while quantum theory does ...
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Study reveals how swimming speed alters foot vortex dynamics
When humans kick swim through water, vortices form around their legs, generating the force that propels them forward. However, the mechanisms underlying variations in the structure of these vortices with swimming speed remain ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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By studying neutron 'starquakes,' scientists hope to transform their understanding of nuclear matter
The study of 'starquakes' (like earthquakes, but in stars) promises to give us important new insights into the properties of neutron stars (the collapsed remnants of massive stars), according to new research led by the University ...
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Feb 5, 2025
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Quantum machine simulates universe's potential false vacuum decay
Physicists have performed a simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate fate of the universe.
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Feb 4, 2025
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Language models can improve physics measurements with improved tau reconstruction
In order to find rare processes from collider data, scientists use computer algorithms to determine the type and properties of particles based on the faint signals that they leave in the detector. One such particle is the ...
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Feb 3, 2025
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Quantifying metal strength uncertainty in high-explosives models
For the first time, a team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) quantified and rigorously studied the effect of metal strength on accurately modeling coupled metal/high explosive (HE) experiments, ...
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Feb 3, 2025
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A new feature discovered in radioactive lanthanum isotopes
Researchers at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, precisely measured atomic masses of radioactive lanthanum isotopes and found an interesting feature in their nuclear binding energies. The ...
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Jan 31, 2025
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Rethinking Carnot: Scientists overcome traditional power-efficiency trade-off
Challenging centuries-old assumptions about thermodynamics, a new study published in Physical Review Letters has shown that it is theoretically possible to design a heat engine that achieves maximum power output while approaching ...

NEON experiment shares results from first direct search for light dark matter
Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to be very challenging. While physicists have not yet been able to determine what exactly this matter ...

Unified model scales pressure fluctuation in an accelerated liquid
A research team from Japan has developed a unified model to scale the transitional pressure development in a one-dimensional flow. This achievement provides a better understanding of how pressure fields build up in the confined ...
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Jan 29, 2025
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Quantum theory and thermodynamics: No contradiction with new entropy definition, study says
It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, to put it more precisely: that entropy ...
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Jan 29, 2025
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An overlooked nuclear force helps keep matter stable, study reveals
Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom's nucleus, known as the three-nucleon force, impacts nuclear stability. The study, published in Physics Letters B, provides ...
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Jan 28, 2025
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Previously unknown set of cochlear hearing modes supports complexities in human hearing
Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of "modes" within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and discerns a stunning ...
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Jan 27, 2025
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New technique to detect dark matter uses atomic clocks and lasers
A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter. In a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Australia, and Germany's metrology institute (Physikalisch-Technische ...
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Jan 24, 2025
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Imagining the physics of George R.R. Martin's fictional universe
Many science fiction authors try to incorporate scientific principles into their work, but Ian Tregillis, who is a contributing author of the Wild Cards book series when he's not working as a physicist at Los Alamos National ...
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Jan 23, 2025
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Clocking nature's heaviest elementary particle: CMS tests whether top quarks play by Einstein's rules
In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere to Einstein's special theory of relativity. The research is published in the journal Physics Letters ...
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Jan 23, 2025
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Salt deposit ring inside your pasta pan? Researchers unveil the physical mechanisms at play
If you've ever tossed a generous pinch of salt into your pasta pan's water for flavor or as an attempt to make it boil faster, you've likely ended up with a whitish ring of deposits inside the pan.
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Jan 21, 2025
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Spin has transformed modern-day tennis—here's the physics behind it
Watch any match at this year's Australian Open and you'll see balls curving in the air or bouncing higher or lower than expected. Players such as Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff are particularly masterful at the ...
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Jan 20, 2025
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Experiment validates electric ion thruster simulations
Predicting the lifetime of an electric ion thruster is notoriously difficult. You have to account for the chamber wall effects, which are not present in space environments. Researchers within several different aerospace disciplines ...
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Jan 20, 2025
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Touschek and Gatto: Exploring a friendship that would shape fundamental physics
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) made its groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, but its ancestry can be traced back more than 60 years to the first electron-positron collision experiment in Italy. Named Anello ...
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Jan 16, 2025
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