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X(5568). Image credit: V.M. Abazov et al. / Fermilab.

Physicists Discover New Tetraquark Particle: X(5568)

Feb 26, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

Physicists on the DZero international collaboration at Fermilab, the U.S. Department of Energy’s laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics,...

The collision of two black holes is seen in this still from a computer simulation. Image credit: SXS.

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves

Feb 11, 2016 by News Staff

For the first time, physicists have observed ‘ripples’ in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves. The collision of two black holes is...

Gel model of a fetal brain after being immersed in liquid solvent, the resulting compression led to the formation of folds similar in size and shape to real brains. Image credit: Tuomas Tallinen et al.

Scientists Replicate Folding Human Brain in 3D

Feb 2, 2016 by News Staff

A variety of hypotheses on how the brain folds have been proposed but none have been directly used to make testable predictions. Now, a group of scientists...

Visualization of the structure of the created quantum knot: each colorful band represents a set of nearby directions of the quantum field that is knotted; note that each band is twisted and linked with the others once; untying the knot requires the bands to separate, which is not possible without breaking them. Image credit: David Hall.

Physicists Create Quantum Knots for the First Time

Jan 18, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a breakthrough discovery detailed in a paper in the journal Nature Physics, a team of physicists from Finland and the United States has found a way...

Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments which were quenched after the formation at 6,740 degrees Fahrenheit. Image credit: Jagdish Narayan / Anagh Bhaumik.

Q-Carbon: Scientists Discover New Allotrope of Carbon

Dec 1, 2015 by News Staff

A team of material scientists in the United States has discovered a novel allotrope of carbon, Q-carbon. Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments...

A new measurement by the STAR collaboration reveals that the force between antiprotons (p) is attractive and strong. Image credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Physicists Measure Force of Interaction between Antiprotons

Nov 5, 2015 by News Staff

According to a large international team of physicists, the attractive force between antiprotons is similar to that between protons. A new measurement by...

Holograms are 3D light-fields that can be projected from a 2D surface; Asier Marzo of the University of Bristol and the Public University of Navarre and his colleagues have created acoustic holograms with shapes such as tweezers, twisters and cages that exert forces on particles to levitate and manipulate them. Image credit: Asier Marzo / Bruce Drinkwater / Sriram Subramanian.

European Researchers Create Acoustic Tractor Beam

Oct 28, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists from the United Kingdom and Spain have built the world’s first working acoustic tractor beam. Holograms are 3D light-fields that...

Artist’s rendition of spatially segregated domains of multipolar order in a crystal of strontium-iridium oxide (Sr2IrO4); the orientation of the multipolar order in each domain is depicted by the multi-lobed object. Image credit: Liuyan Zhao.

Physicists Discover New Electronic Phase of Matter

Oct 26, 2015 by News Staff

A group of physicists from the United States and Israel has discovered a novel phase of matter that is characterized by an unusual ordering of electrons. Artist’s...

A glueball is made up purely of gluons. Image credit: TU Wien.

Austrian Physicists Confirm Existence of Glueballs, Exotic Particles Composed of Pure Force

Oct 19, 2015 by News Staff

A particle called meson f0(1710) is the elusive ‘glueball,’ an exotic particle composed of pure force, according to a team of physicists at the Technische...

NIST physicists have transferred quantum data carried in light particles over 63 miles of optical fiber.

U.S. Physicists Smash Distance Record for Quantum Teleportation

Sep 23, 2015 by News Staff

A team of physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has ‘teleported’ quantum data carried in light particles over 63 miles (102...

Upper image: 3D diagram of the magnetic wormhole, showing how the magnetic field lines (red) leaving a magnet on the right pass through the wormhole. Bottom: in terms of magnetism the wormhole is undetectable, which means that the magnetic field seems to disappear on the right only to reappear on the left in the form of a magnetic monopole. Image credit: Jordi Prat-Camps, Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Spanish Scientists Create Magnetic Wormhole

Sep 4, 2015 by News Staff

A team of physicists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, has constructed and experimentally demonstrated a magnetic wormhole – an object...

Installation of the CMS beam pipe. Image credit: CERN / CMS Collaboration.

CERN Physicists Produce ‘Littlest’ Quark-Gluon Plasma

Sep 4, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have produced a quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter...

Structure of phagraphene. Image credit: Zhenhai Wang et al.

Phagraphene: Scientists Discover New Structural Variant of Carbon

Sep 3, 2015 by News Staff

A new carbon allotrope, phagraphene (standing for penta-hexa-hepta-graphene), has been discovered by an international team of physicists. It consists of...

Artist’s impression of a black hole and a normal star. Image credit: L. Calcada / ESO.

Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Don’t Destroy Information, Store It in 2D Hologram

Aug 26, 2015 by News Staff

On Tuesday, famous theoretical physicist Prof Stephen Hawking presented his latest ideas on black holes – and the possible passage of information...

A graphic of one of the highest-energy neutrino events is superimposed on a view of the IceCube Neutrino Observatiory at NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Image credit: IceCube Collaboration.

IceCube Confirms Observation of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos

Aug 21, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory – a cubic-kilometer-sized detector sunk into the ice sheet at the South Pole – have announced...

CERN Physicists Compare Light Nuclei and Antinuclei

Aug 18, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists from the ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have measured the difference between mass-to-charge ratios for antideuterons and...

This image shows a water strider together with robotic insects that can jump on water. Image credit: Seoul National University.

Researchers Create Robotic Water Strider

Jul 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers and engineers, led by Dr Kyu-Jin Cho of Seoul National University in Korea, has created an insect-like robot that can jump on water...

Weyl Fermion: Long-Sought Massless Particle Finally Observed

Jul 20, 2015 by News Staff

The Weyl fermion – an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago – has been confirmed by direct observations for the first time. A detector...

Collisions at 13 TeV send particle tracks through the LHCb detector. Image credit: LHCb.

CERN Physicists Confirm Existence of Pentaquark Particles

Jul 14, 2015 by News Staff

Physicists from CERN’s LHCb experiment announced today the observation of a pentaquark, a hadron consisting of five quarks. Illustration of the possible...