Physics News

Apr 29, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

French researchers have determined that the temperature of the Earth’s core is 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit (6,000 oC) – about 1,800 oF (1,000 oC) hotter than previously thought. The layers of the Earth and their temperatures (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) The Earth’s core consists mainly of a sphere of liquid iron at temperatures above 7,200 degrees Fahrenheit and pressures of more than 1.3 million atmospheres. Under these conditions,...

Apr 25, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment have reported the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays...

Apr 10, 2013 by News Staff

What will soon be the most powerful neutrino detector in the U.S. has recorded its first 3D images of particles. This 3D image shows a cosmic-ray muon...

Mar 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A research team led by Harvard University scientists has measured the magnetic moment of the antiproton more accurately than ever before. Antiproton annihilation....

Mar 14, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s CMS and ATLAS experiments have presented new results that further elucidate the particle discovered in 2012. H -> 2e2mu candidate...

Feb 27, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers at Yale University and the Texas Tech University have found a way of predicting whether a given glass will be ductile or brittle. A glass sculpture...

Jan 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to physics students from the University of Leicester, the United Kingdom, space travelers would not see the light from stars stretching past...

Nov 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has observed for the first time one of the rarest particle decays ever...

Oct 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

British scientists have found a way of changing the color of metals including gold, silver and aluminium. This collage shows official bullion coins of...

Oct 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Mathematicians from University of Adelaide, Australia, have extended the theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein’s...

Oct 3, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

For the first time ever, an international team of physicists has directly imaged Landau levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behavior...

Oct 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Physicists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science, Japan, have obtained the most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic...

Aug 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University has proposed that the start of the Universe should be modeled not as...

Aug 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Theoretical physicists at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, are on the track of an exotic, subatomic particle, whose existence was first predicted...

Jul 4, 2012 by News Staff

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and the ATLAS experiments at CERN presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs boson...

Jun 20, 2012 by News Staff

BaBar experiment team has announced that their latest data suggest possible flaws in the Standard Model of particle physics, the reigning description of...

Jun 19, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Previously undiscovered particles could be detected as they accumulate around black holes, a team of researchers at the Vienna University of Technology...

Jun 18, 2012 by James Freeman

An anomaly in the behavior of ordinary particles may point to the existence of mirror particles that could be candidates for dark matter responsible for...

Jun 14, 2012 by News Staff

Italian scientists have proposed an explanation for the origin of mysterious ripples on stalactites. Stalactites in the Choranche caves in the Vercors,...

May 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A European scientist has presented an explanation for the origin of sliding friction between solid objects. An experiment to demonstrate static and sliding...