Tag Archive for 'Matter'

This image shows a visual representation of one of the highest-energy neutrino detections superimposed on a view of the IceCube Observatory at the South Pole. Image credit: IceCube Collaboration.

Earth Can Absorb High-Energy Neutrinos, Physicists Find

Nov 23, 2017 by News Staff

Neutrinos are subatomic particles that are famous for passing through anything and everything. Now, physicists have demonstrated that our planet stops...

According to Angles-Alcazar et al, up to 50% of matter in the Milky Way Galaxy may have an extragalactic origin. Image credit: NASA / JPL.

Up To 50% of Milky Way’s Matter Have Extragalactic Origin, Astrophysicists Say

Jul 27, 2017 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Northwestern University and elsewhere has discovered that — contrary to previously standard lore — up to 50% of the...

A rendering of how changes in an electron’s motion (bottom view) alter the scattering of light (top view), as measured in a new experiment that scattered more than 500 photons of light from a single electron. Image credit: Extreme Light Laboratory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ultra-High Intensity Laser Sparks New Behavior in Light

Jun 27, 2017 by News Staff

By focusing laser light to brightness one billion times greater than the surface of the Sun, a team of physicists from the United States and China has...

Santorio’s marginal note to col. 406C-D, in Santorio Santorio, Commentaria in Primam Fen Primi Libri Canonis Avicennae (Venice, 1625). Image credit: British Library.

Venetian Doctor Santorio Santorio Had Key Role in Shaping Early Modern Science

May 29, 2017 by News Staff

Newly discovered handwritten notes show for the first time the Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561–1636), who invented the thermometer and helped...

Artist’s concept of a magneto-optical trap and atom chip to be used by NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the International Space Station. CAL will provide an opportunity to study ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the space station -- a frontier in scientific research that is expected to reveal interesting and novel quantum phenomena. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory to Create ‘Coolest Spot in Universe’

Mar 8, 2017 by News Staff

This summer, a suite of instruments called the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) will fly to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will utilize the...

Illustration of a supersolid state, in which the properties of a frictionless fluid and a crystalline state coincide. Image credit: Julian Léonard, ETH Zurich.

Supersolid: Physicists Create New State of Matter

Mar 4, 2017 by News Staff

Two teams of physicists have independently created a mysterious new state of matter. The state is known as a supersolid and it combines the properties...

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...

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