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Leaves' resilience to raindrops offer insights into energy harvesting potential
To a leaf, a falling raindrop is equivalent in mass to a bowling ball dropping on a person—so how does the leaf survive? New research elucidates the raindrop's impact and the physical dynamics that help the leaf respond, ...
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Dec 23, 2024
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Twisted Edison: Filaments curling at the nanoscale produce light waves that twirl as they travel
Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic ...
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Dec 23, 2024
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Scientists reinvent equations governing formation of snowflakes, raindrops and Saturn's rings
Skoltech researchers have proposed novel mathematical equations that describe the behavior of aggregating particles in fluids. This bears on natural and engineering processes as diverse as rain and snow formation, the emergence ...
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Dec 23, 2024
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Scientists observe 'negative time' in quantum experiments
Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it—an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter.
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Dec 21, 2024
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Researchers take 'significant leap forward' with quantum simulation of molecular electron transfer
Researchers at Rice University have made a meaningful advance in the simulation of molecular electron transfer—a fundamental process underpinning countless physical, chemical and biological processes. The study, published ...
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Dec 20, 2024
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Active particles reorganize 3D gels into denser porous structures, study shows
Colloidal gels are complex systems made up of microscopic particles dispersed in a liquid, ultimately producing a semi-solid network. These materials have unique and advantageous properties that can be tuned using external ...
Most precise measurement of electrically neutral beauty meson lifetime achieved
The ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has released a new high-precision measurement of the lifetime of the electrically neutral beauty (B0) meson—a hadron composed of a bottom antiquark and a down quark.
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Dec 19, 2024
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Need to accurately measure time in space? Use a COMPASSO
Telling time in space is difficult, but it is absolutely critical for applications ranging from testing relativity to navigating down the road. Atomic clocks, such as those used on the Global Navigation Satellite System network, ...
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Dec 19, 2024
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When solar probes align: Data confirms how sun's magnetic field accelerates solar wind
When two probes orbiting the sun aligned with one another, researchers harnessed the opportunity to track the sun's magnetic field as it traveled into the solar system. They found that the sharply oscillating magnetic field ...
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Dec 19, 2024
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Molecular 'pinball': Superfast collisions predict supercritical fluid properties
Neither gas nor liquid, supercritical fluids exhibit a unique mashup of the properties of both and arise when fluids are pushed to very high temperatures and pressures. Their properties make them ideal for a wide variety ...
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Dec 19, 2024
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Anomalous magnetic moment of the muon: New calculation confirms Standard Model of particle physics
The magnetic moment of the muon is an important precision parameter for putting the Standard Model of particle physics to the test. After years of work, the research group led by Professor Hartmut Wittig of the PRISMA+ Cluster ...
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Dec 19, 2024
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Antineutrino detection gets a boost with novel plastic scintillator
How do you find and measure nuclear particles, like antineutrinos, that travel near the speed of light?
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Dec 18, 2024
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Thin-film tech makes nuclear clocks a 1,000 times less radioactive and more affordable
In the quest for ultra-precise timekeeping, scientists have turned to nuclear clocks. Unlike optical atomic clocks—which rely on electronic transitions—nuclear clocks utilize the energy transitions in the atom's nucleus, ...
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Dec 18, 2024
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Q&A: Inside the search for dark matter
More than a decade ago, dark matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, continuing their mission to uncover the elusive substance. SLAC recently caught ...
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Dec 18, 2024
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Chinese detector to hunt elusive neutrinos deep underground
Underneath a granite hill in southern China, a massive detector is nearly complete that will sniff out the mysterious ghost particles lurking around us.
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Dec 18, 2024
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Study claims all observables in nature can be measured with a single constant: The second
A group of Brazilian researchers has presented an innovative proposal to resolve a decades-old debate among theoretical physicists: How many fundamental constants are needed to describe the observable universe? Here, the ...
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Dec 17, 2024
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The physics of random stacking: Perspectives on stability and chaos
Pile up blocks until the tower collapses. But why does the tower always end up collapsing? Is it possible that it can be built ad infinitum? A study published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures explores ...
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Dec 17, 2024
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Explaining physical reality: Physicists 'bootstrap' validity of string theory
String theory, conceptualized more than 50 years ago as a framework to explain the formation of matter, remains elusive as a "provable" phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating ...
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Dec 17, 2024
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Physics and emote design: Quantifying clarity in digital images
When analyzing artworks, understanding the visual clarity of compositions is crucial. Inspired by digital artists, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) researchers from the Mechanics and Materials Unit have ...
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Dec 16, 2024
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LHCb sheds light on two pieces of the matter–antimatter puzzle: Baryon and beauty hadron decays
In the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts. But fast forward 13.8 billion years to the present day, and the universe is made almost entirely of matter, so something must have happened ...
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Dec 16, 2024
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