ADMX experiment places world's best constraint on dark matter axions
ADMX, with its world-leading sensitivity, has ruled out axions of a certain mass range as dark matter.
General Physics
Nov 18, 2019
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How much is a Nobel worth? A lot more than the prize money
The prestigious Nobel science awards are worth far more than the $1.5 million prize money: they can pad a company's coffers with $24 million and even add two years to a laureate's life, experts say.
Other
Oct 2, 2011
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Physicists reveal first images of Landau levels
Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field – for the first time since they were theoretically conceived of by Nobel prize winner Lev ...
General Physics
Oct 1, 2012
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Five achievements that haven't won a Nobel Prize
The announcements of this year's Nobel Prize winners will start Monday with the medicine award and continue with physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The secretive award committees never give away any hints ...
Other
Oct 7, 2013
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Zany scientists honored in alternative Nobels (Update)
In the ultimate accolade for the world's mad scientists, spoof Nobel prizes were awarded Thursday for studies into beetle sex, turtles yawning, the desperation of people dying to urinate and other daffy investigations.
Other
Sep 29, 2011
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Lund University biologist receives the Ig Nobel Prize
Susanne Åkesson, Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Lund University in Sweden, has been awarded the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize. The prize, which she shares with six other researchers from Hungary and Spain, was presented ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2016
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Finding the cause of a fatal problem in rocket engine combustors
Rocket engines contain confined combustion systems, which are essentially combustion chambers. In these chambers, nonlinear interactions among turbulent fuel and oxidizer flows, sound waves, and heat produced from chemical ...
General Physics
Aug 2, 2021
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Theoretical quantum spin liquid prepared for the first time
In 1987, Paul W. Anderson, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, proposed that high-temperature superconductivity, or loss of electrical resistance, is related to an exotic quantum state now known as quantum spin liquid. Magnetic ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 15, 2018
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High-spatial-resolution interferometry enters the multi-wavelength era
Interferometers are widely used in various high spatial resolution imaging techniques to extend the diffraction limit. However, the conventional interferometric methods only work when the photons have the same wavelength.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 17, 2021
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Attention, please -- how innovations and Nobel Prize winners make it
"The rich-get-richer effect," is famous not only in sociology. It applies to the success of innovators as well. But if attention is paid only to people who are already at the top, how are scientific revolutions possible? ...
Social Sciences
May 4, 2011
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