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Observatory develops high-efficiency muon detection system with novel plastic scintillator design
Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) have developed a novel top veto tracker system for the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment.
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Apr 25, 2025
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Is our universe the ultimate computer?
Whether we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world is a much-debated theory, challenging previous thinking about the universe and our existence.
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Apr 25, 2025
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Direct lab observation reveals key mechanism behind cosmic particle acceleration
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) achieved the first direct laboratory observation of ion acceleration through reflection off laser-generated magnetized collisionless shocks. This observation ...
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Apr 23, 2025
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Search for sterile neutrinos continues at nuclear reactors
Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth, or some of the most dynamic objects in the universe. Their tendency to change "flavors" may provide ...
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Apr 23, 2025
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It's about (space-)time: Scientists explore new dimension for light
By breaking a decades-old paradigm and rethinking the role that the dimension of time plays in physics, researchers from the University of Rostock and the University of Birmingham have discovered novel flashes of light that ...
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Apr 23, 2025
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Asymmetric molecular interactions may hold the secret to living matter
Asymmetric interactions between molecules may serve as a stabilizing factor for biological systems. A new model by researchers in the Department of Living Matter Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization ...
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Apr 22, 2025
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Particle emission ratios offer new window into evolution of matter in the early universe
Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a key indicator that may reveal the emergence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by analyzing particle "fingerprints" ...
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Apr 22, 2025
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Curved neutron beams could deliver benefits straight to industry
In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for English scientist George ...
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Apr 17, 2025
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New type of handheld detector for all types of ionizing radiation improves radiation safety
The University of Jyväskylä (Finland), in collaboration with the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), has developed a new type of handheld multi-purpose radiation detector that comprehensively detects ...
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Apr 15, 2025
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Optical device mimics both black and white holes
In the realm of general relativity, black holes are well-known for their ability to trap light and matter by bending spacetime, creating a point of no return. While black holes have fascinated scientists and the public alike, ...
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Apr 15, 2025
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A bowling revolution: Modeling the perfect conditions for a strike
With millions of dollars at stake across tournaments and more than 45 million regular annual participants, bowling continues to reign as a top sport in the U.S. A unified model that predicts how a bowling ball behaves down ...
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Apr 15, 2025
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ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism
The detection of longitudinally polarized W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles.
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Apr 14, 2025
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Cooler, faster, better: Crystal waves enable ultrafast heat transfer for cooler electronics
Imagine if phones never got hot no matter how many apps were running. Picture a future where supercomputers use less energy, electric cars charge faster, and life-saving medical devices stay cooler and last longer.
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Apr 14, 2025
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New data reveal neutrinos' mass is under 0.45 electronvolts
Neutrinos are among the most enigmatic particles in the universe. They are omnipresent yet interact extremely rarely with matter.
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Apr 14, 2025
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Unlocking coffee's potential: Physics offers a path to better brews
The cost of raw arabica beans, the core component of most coffee, has spiked in recent years due to four consecutive seasons of adverse weather. Climate change has added further strain, threatening the delicate temperature ...
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Apr 13, 2025
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Maximal entanglement sheds new light on particle creation
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins ...
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Apr 13, 2025
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Breaking a century-old physics barrier: Scientists achieve perfect wave trapping with simple cylinders
A joint research team has successfully demonstrated the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single resonator—something long thought to be theoretically impossible. Their findings, published on April 3 in Physical ...
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Apr 11, 2025
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No butterfingers in baseball: Understanding slip between fingertips and the ball
Before June 3, 2021, baseballs spun more. That's the day when Major League Baseball (MLB) said it would begin cleaning up a sticky situation: unapproved substances, like pine resin, smeared on baseballs to help pitchers keep ...
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Apr 11, 2025
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Scientists find evidence of universal conformal invariance in diverse cellular movement
In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological cells. They show that a universal feature in the collective behavior emerges in groups of living cells.
New experiment halves weight limit of elusive neutrinos
Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny "ghost particles" that could solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, announced a new limit on Thursday for how much they could weigh, halving the previous ...
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Apr 10, 2025
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