Physics News

Nov 20, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years ago. In an innovative experiment, the scientists have managed to capture some of the photons that are constantly appearing and disappearing in the vacuum. Chalmers scientists’ experiment (Philip Krantz / Chalmers) The experiment is based on one of the most counterintuitive, yet, one of the most...

Nov 18, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...

Sep 21, 2011 by News Staff

An innovative method for examining paintings has revealed a hitherto unknown painting beneath Goya’s Portrait of Don Ramón Satué, one of his most celebrated...

Sep 14, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, during tests of new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage, have discovered that it...

Sep 6, 2011 by News Staff

A constant stabilization experiment of a quantum state has been successfully completed for the first time by a team from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel,...

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. Writing...

Aug 25, 2011 by News Staff

The CLOUD experiment at CERN has been designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols under controlled laboratory...

Aug 18, 2011 by News Staff

A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has shown how to disrupt the ‘coffee ring effect’ — the ring-shaped stain of particles left...

Aug 16, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists in a lab with Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station in southern Guangdong Province have found neutrino through two detecting instruments, which is...

Aug 15, 2011 by News Staff

An international team of researchers takes an important step toward giving physicists the ability to effectively make movies of individual electrons. If...