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Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher to address the mysteries of physics
Top minds at the world's largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.
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Apr 5, 2025
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Enhancing heat transfer using the turbulent flow of viscoelastic fluids
Fluids play a crucial role in industrial processes like cooling, heating, and mixing. Traditionally, most industries would utilize Newtonian fluids—which have a constant viscosity—for such processes. However, many are ...
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Apr 4, 2025
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An exception to the laws of thermodynamics: Shape-recovering liquid defies textbooks
A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising discovery of what they call a "shape-recovering liquid," which defies some long-held expectations derived ...
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Apr 4, 2025
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Intriguing excess of top-quark pairs hints at discovery of smallest composite particle
The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which could point to the existence of the smallest composite particle yet observed. The result, reported ...
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Apr 3, 2025
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Theoretical physicists unveil 'supermazes' to decode black-hole microstructure
A team of physicists have discovered a new approach that redefines the conception of a black hole by mapping out their detailed structure, as shown in a research study recently published in Journal of High Energy Physics.
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Apr 3, 2025
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A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon
A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component. Their paper is published in ...
Riding the AI wave toward rapid, precise ocean simulations
AI has created a sea change in society; now, it is setting its sights on the sea itself. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a machine learning-powered fluid simulation model that significantly reduces ...
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Apr 3, 2025
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Repurposed smartphone camera sensors create real-time, high-resolution imaging of antiproton annihilations
Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? The AEgIS collaboration, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt's team from the research neutron source FRM II at the Technical ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' is not a masterpiece when it comes to flow physics, researchers say
The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one of Western history's most enduring works, but "The Starry Night" is not a masterpiece of flow physics—despite recent attention to its captivating swirls, according ...
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Apr 1, 2025
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No technical obstacles to new giant particle collider in Europe: CERN
Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the "pharaonic" $17-billion project.
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Mar 31, 2025
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Europe's plans for an even bigger particle collider, explained
Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue searching for answers to some of the universe's tiniest yet most profound mysteries.
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Mar 31, 2025
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Faux gras? Scientists craft 'more ethical' version of French delicacy
Foie gras—the fattened liver of ducks or geese—is a French delicacy prized for its rich, buttery flavor. But its production, which involves force-feeding the animals, has led to bans in several countries.
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Mar 30, 2025
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Quantum entanglement reveals strange metals' unique electron behavior at critical point
Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals—materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists at Rice University has made a breakthrough in this area ...
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Mar 29, 2025
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Physicist revisits the computational limits of life and Schrödinger's essential question in the era of quantum computing
More than 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series of public lectures at Trinity College, Dublin, which eventually came to ...
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Mar 28, 2025
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Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected
In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly—a strikingly large imbalance between charged and neutral kaons in argon–scandium ...
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Mar 28, 2025
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Dirac's Plate Trick, the Hairy Ball Theorem and more: Research probes physics of irregular objects on inclined planes
How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook.
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Mar 27, 2025
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Study uncovers origin of the large neutron-capture cross section in ⁸⁸Zr using new methodology
Studies that explore how the denser sections of atoms, known as atomic nuclei, interact with neutrons (i.e., particles with no electric charge) can have valuable implications both for the understanding of these atoms' underlying ...
Hypersonic shock waves: 3D simulations expose new flow disturbances
At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle, such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The Grainger College of ...
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Mar 26, 2025
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A new piece in the matter–antimatter puzzle: A fundamental asymmetry in the behavior of baryons
On March 24, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter ...
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Mar 26, 2025
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A new benchmark for quantum electrodynamics in atoms: Precision measurement of boron-like tin ion's g factor
Highly charged heavy ions form a very suitable experimental field for investigating quantum electrodynamics (QED), the best-tested theory in physics describing all electrical and magnetic interactions of light and matter. ...
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Mar 26, 2025
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