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Scientists Detect Neutrinos from Sun’s Core

Aug 31, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational collaboration of physicists has directly detected neutrinos created by the proton-proton fusion process going on at the heart of the Sun. Physicists have directly detected pp neutrinos, demonstrating that about 99 per cent of the power of the Sun is generated by the pp fusion process. Image credit: Nathalia Alzate / SDO. In the core of the Sun, energy is released through sequences of nuclear reactions that convert hydrogen into helium. The...

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According to Prof Adrian Bejan, the supersonic trans-Atlantic Concorde aircraft went the way of the dodo - it hit an evolutionary cul-de-sac. This image shows the British Airways Concorde in 1986. Image credit: Eduard Marmet / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Physics Law Helps Explain Evolution of Passenger Airplanes

Jul 23, 2014 by News Staff

A new study, published in the Journal of Applied Physics, uses a now-famous law of physics called the Constructal law to witness the evolution of airplane...

The tiny temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, shown here as color, trace primordial density fluctuations in the early universe that seed the later growth of galaxies. Gravitational waves from inflation are expected to produce much a fainter pattern that includes twisting B-mode polarization, consistent with the B-mode polarization pattern observed by BICEP2, which is shown here as black lines. The line segments show the polarization strength and orientation at different spots on the sky. Image credit: BICEP2 Collaboration.

Higgs Boson, BICEP2 Results Could Point to New Physics beyond Standard Model

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

Based on the discovery of the Higgs boson and the recent results from the BICEP2 collaboration, UK physicists have made a surprising prediction: the Universe...

Digital art by Les Bossinas, Cortez III Service Corp., 1998.

Australian Researchers Simulate Time Travel

Jun 23, 2014 by News Staff

A group of physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia has used photons to simulate quantum particles traveling through a wormhole back in...

Higgs boson decays to four muons: lines denote other particles, and energy deposited is shown in blue. Image credit: CMS.

Higgs Boson Decays to Fermions, CERN Study Confirms

Jun 23, 2014 by News Staff

New research conducted by physicists from CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has confirmed that the Higgs boson...

Exciton: Physicists Detect Energy-Carrying Quasiparticle in Metal

Jun 2, 2014 by News Staff

A team of physicists led by Dr Hrvoje Petek from the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has detected, for the first time,...

European physicists say they have discovered how to create matter from light. Image credit: SLAC Information Management and Portal Solutions.

Physicists Find Way to Convert Light into Matter

May 19, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of scientists headed by Prof Steve Rose from Imperial College in London, UK, has discovered how to create matter from light. European...

Credit: Weidong Li / Zhi Liu.

Extremely Rare Type of Iron Oxide Found in Ancient Chinese Pottery

May 13, 2014 by News Staff

Sometimes, studying past technologies leads to remarkable discoveries that can help design better materials for the future. This is the little known science...

Ununseptium: Superheavy Element 117 Confirmed

May 2, 2014 by News Staff

Physicists at GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, have used calcium-ion beams and radioactive berkelium-249 to produce two...

Drawing of a wall painting from the tomb of Djehutihotep, a semi-feudal ruler of an Ancient Egyptian province, 1880 BC. A person standing at the front of the sled is pouring water onto the sand.

Ancient Egyptians Transported Large Objects over Wet Sand, Study Suggests

May 1, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, ancient Egyptians used a simple trick to make it easier to transport heavy colossi...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Image credit: CERN.

Z(4430): CERN Physicists Confirm Existence of Exotic Hadrons

Apr 10, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty collaboration have confirmed the unambiguous observation of the long-sought exotic hadron Z(4430),...

This is an artist's impression of a synthetic magnetic monopole. Image credit: Heikka Valja.

Scientists Create Synthetic Dirac Monopole

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

For the first time ever, physicists have created and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles by engineering an environment that mimics a monopole’s...

ASACUSA's experimental apparatus. Image credit: CERN.

CERN Scientists Create Antihydrogen Atoms

Jan 22, 2014 by News Staff

Physicists from CERN’s Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) project say they have produced at least 80 atoms of antihydrogen. Hydrogen’s...

IceCube Detects High-Energy Neutrinos from Outside Solar System

Nov 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole have detected for the first time mysterious, high-energy neutrinos that originate outside...

Toronto University scientists have successfully demonstrated a thin, active cloak at microwave frequencies. Image credit: Michael Selvanayagam / George V. Eleftheriades.

Scientists Demonstrate Electromagnetic Invisibility Cloak

Nov 13, 2013 by News Staff

Two researchers at the University of Toronto have created and tested a new type of active invisibility cloak that can hide objects over a wide range of...

This image shows the four-quark structure of Zc (3900). Image credit: APS / Alan Stonebraker.

New Particle Points to Elusive Four-Quark Matter

Nov 12, 2013 by News Staff

According to physicists of the Beijing-based BESIII experiment, their discovery of a new subatomic particle named Zc (4020) hints at a novel class of four-quark...

Proton is a subatomic particle found in the nucleus of every atom. This artist's impression shows a proton and a neutron. Image credit: Joanna Griffin / Jefferson Lab / Penn State.

Physicists Determine Weak Charge of Proton for the First Time

Sep 19, 2013 by News Staff

An international collaboration of physicists conducting experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has determined for the first...

Periodic table of the elements (University of California, Irvine).

Ununpentium: Scientists Confirm Existence of Element 115

Aug 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of physicists led by Lund University scientists has found new evidence for the existence of a synthetic super-heavy element with...

Scientists Detect Antimatter Particles in Solar Flares

Jul 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the United States and Russia analyzing microwave and magnetic-field data from solar-dedicated facilities and spacecraft have reported...

This computer simulation visualizes dark matter halo (Heidi Wu / Oliver Hahn / Risa Wechsler / Ralf Kaehler / Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology)

Dark Matter May Be Made Out of Majorana Fermions, Say Physicists

Jun 11, 2013 by News Staff

In a paper published online in the journal Physics Letters B (arXiv.org’s version), theoretical physicists from Vanderbilt University propose that dark...

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