Physics News

Oct 28, 2024 by News Staff

According to the prevailing inflationary universe theory, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant Universe and produced all known matter. That ancient energy shared key features of the current Universe’s dark energy. If you ask yourself the question, ‘Where in the later Universe do we see gravity as strong as it was at the beginning of the Universe?’ the answer is at the center...

Oct 11, 2024 by News Staff

The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of physicists from China. The region of the nuclear chart...

Sep 30, 2024 by News Staff

Three-body nuclear systems are key to many aspects of modern nuclear physics, such as understanding the equation of state of high-density nuclear matter...

Sep 24, 2024 by News Staff

Around 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid impact triggered mass extinction, mega-tsunamis and a spell of global warming that lasted for around...

Sep 18, 2024 by News Staff

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the masses of the carriers of the weak interaction, the W and Z bosons, are uniquely related. Physics beyond...

Sep 18, 2024 by News Staff

Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the Universe’s dark matter. In this scenario, their abundance would be large enough for...

Sep 9, 2024 by News Staff

In their experiments, physicists at the University of Bonn and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau observed the dimensional crossover from one to two...

Aug 28, 2024 by News Staff

Typically, plants grow in crowded environments, where neighboring plants shade each other while competing for light. The presence of neighbors varies over...

Aug 22, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists from the STAR Collaboration have observed the antimatter hypernucleus antihyperhydrogen-4 — composed of an antihyperon, an antiproton...

Aug 13, 2024 by News Staff

Deuterons — atomic nuclei made up of a proton and a neutron — are thought to form in the same way as helium-3 nuclei, in collisions between...

Jul 31, 2024 by News Staff

The principle idea behind a warp drive is that instead of exceeding the speed of light directly in a local reference frame, a ‘warp bubble’ could traverse...

Jul 29, 2024 by News Staff

Ice 0 is a form of ice that can seed the formation of ice crystals in supercooled water, according to a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo. Ice...

Jul 23, 2024 by News Staff

New calculations reveal that pairs of supermassive black holes can merge into a larger black hole because of previously overlooked behavior of dark matter...

Jul 16, 2024 by News Staff

Since its discovery 20 years ago physicists have been fascinated by χc1(3872), which is also known as X(3872), trying to understand if it is a conventional...

Jul 11, 2024 by News Staff

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that always travel faster than light. Until recently, they were generally regarded as entities that did not fit into...

Jul 1, 2024 by News Staff

A hyperon is a particle containing three quarks, like the proton and neutron, including one or more strange quarks. Physicists with the LHCb Collaboration...

Jun 25, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have released the most sensitive search for di-Higgs production and self-coupling...

Jun 14, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists at the University of Vienna have experimentally measured the rotation rate of our planet using maximally path-entangled quantum states of light...

May 22, 2024 by News Staff

Promethium is extremely rare, with only about 0.5 kg naturally occurring in Earth’s crust at any given time. Conceptual art shows the rare earth element...

May 15, 2024 by News Staff

With the world focusing on decarbonizing electricity and transportation, abating emissions from industrial process heat remain the elephant in the room....