Ninety-five percent of the universe is still considered unexplored. Scientists at CERN, the world's largest particle physics research center, located in Geneva, are working on solving these mysteries. In May 2012, researchers ...
Hardware
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The news that muons have a little extra wiggle in their step sent word buzzing around the world this spring.
General Physics
Jun 22, 2021
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Scientists searching for signs of elusive "dark photons" as an explanation for an anomaly in a groundbreaking physics experiment have nearly ruled out their role. Though the postulated particles could still exist as carriers ...
General Physics
Feb 19, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have made thin, crystalline layers of the material LuMnO3 that are both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic.
General Physics
Jul 19, 2013
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What do you get when you revive a beautiful 20-year-old physics machine, carefully transport it 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home, and then use it to probe strange happenings in a magnetic field? Hopefully you ...
General Physics
Jun 1, 2017
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For more than three years, scientists on the NOvA collaboration have been observing particles called neutrinos as they oscillate from one type to another over a distance of 500 miles. Now, in a new result unveiled today at ...
General Physics
Jun 4, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Enriched Xenon Observatory-200, a prototype observatory that will search for exotic decays of fundamental particles of matter, passed a significant if unofficial milestone last month: its detector registered ...
General Physics
Feb 1, 2011
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What mysteries might still be hidden under Egypt's pyramids? A team accompanied by Egypt's former antiquities minister and famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass are testing a new scanner on the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday, ...
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2016
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The 'standard model' of physics is currently our best description of elementary particles and their interactions. Yet experimental results sometimes differ from the model's predictions, tantalizingly suggesting that more ...
General Physics
Mar 20, 2015
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Muon imaging, or "muography," may be a niche field, but with uses in probing both man-made and natural structures, its appeal is expanding rapidly. A new open-access review published in Reviews in Physics by Lorenzo Bonechi ...
Condensed Matter
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