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General Physics Apr 24, 2024

Scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration look for rule-violating electrons

In a new study published inNature Physics, scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration have tested the stringency of charge conservation and Pauli's exclusion principles using underground detectors. Alessio Porcelli has published ...

General Physics May 3, 2024

The BREAD Collaboration is searching for dark photons using a coaxial dish antenna

Approximately 80% of the matter in the universe is predicted to be so-called "dark matter," which does not emit, reflect, or absorb light and thus cannot be directly detected using conventional experimental techniques.

General Physics Apr 23, 2024

CMS Collaboration observes new all-heavy quark structures

For over a decade, the CMS Collaboration, a large team of researchers based at different institutes worldwide, has been analyzing data collected at the Compact Muon Solenoid, a general-purpose particle detector at CERN's ...

Paleontology & Fossils 15 hours ago

On the trail of global climate change—volcanism as a driver of the climate in the 'Carnian Crisis'

New research on the so-called Carnian Crisis by a team led by Alexander Lukeneder, paleontologist at the Natural History Museum Vienna, reveals astonishing developments surrounding global climate change during the Triassic ...

General Physics May 20, 2024

NA64 uses the high-energy SPS muon beam to search for dark matter

The NA64 experiment started operations at CERN's SPS North Area in 2016. Its aim is to search for unknown particles from a hypothetical "dark sector." For these searches, NA64 directs an electron beam onto a fixed target. ...

Quantum Physics May 15, 2024

Spooky states and figure eights: Stepping into the quantum computing 'ring'

Deep in outer space, invisible hands mold the universe. One is dark matter, an unseen substance thought to bind distant galaxies. The other is dark energy, a force believed to push stellar structures apart with gravity-defying ...

General Physics May 13, 2024

New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation

Every computing system, biological or synthetic, from cells to brains to laptops, has a cost. This isn't the price, which is easy to discern, but an energy cost connected to the work required to run a program and the heat ...

Astronomy May 10, 2024

Is dark matter's main rival theory dead? The Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests may invalidate MOND

One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up. Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newton's law of gravity to their visible matter, despite those ...

General Physics May 7, 2024

Advanced experimental setup expands the hunt for hidden dark matter particles

Scientific evidence for dark matter comes from observing how it influences the motion of stars and galaxies. Scientists believe that dark matter may consist of particles. To search for these particles and their billiard ball-like ...

Astronomy May 7, 2024

How NASA's Roman mission will hunt for primordial black holes

Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the sun's mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find a class of "featherweight" ...

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