Scientists are developing quantum communications networks on Earth. Aliens, if they exist, could be going further.

Using NASA's Fermi space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a newly discovered millisecond pulsar known as PSR J1835−3259B. As a result, they identified gamma-ray pulsations from this source. The finding is reported in a paper published June 27 on the arXiv pre-print server.

Mathematicians who have studied the most efficient way to pack spheres in eight-dimensional space and the spacing of prime numbers are among this year's recipients of the highest award in mathematics, the Fields medal

Dr. Viazovska works on a variation of a conjecture introduced 400 years ago by Johannes Kepler, and she is the second woman to win the Fields Medal.

The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of pentaquark and the first-ever pair of tetraquarks, which includes a new type of tetraquark. The findings, presented today at a CERN seminar, add three new exotic members to the growing list of new hadrons found at the LHC. They will help physicists better understand how quarks bind together into these composite particles.

A new telescope, made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, will track down sources of gravitational waves.

Following two years of upgrades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is almost ready for its next operating run, which is set to begin in March 2023.

The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by 2054

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Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was named Tuesday as one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described a the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

Curl’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1996 chemistry Nobel prize for discovering fullerenes are gone

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.

The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by 2054

June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor. The post He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

With Hugo Duminil-Copin, thinking rarely happens without moving. His insights into the flow-related properties of complex networks have earned him the Fields Medal. The post For His Sporting Approach to Math, a Fields Medal first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.

Ten years ago, on July 4 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a new particle with features consistent with those of the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. The discovery was a landmark in the history of science and captured the world's attention. One year later it won François Englert and Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize in Physics for their prediction made decades earlier, together with the late Robert Brout, of a new fundamental field, known as the Higgs field, that pervades the universe, manifests itself as the Higgs boson and gives mass to the elementary particles.

Graphene quantum dots-based nanohybrids (GQD NHs) are known to be a viable option for optoelectronic equipment because of their prominent carrier transfer and tunable light absorption...

In 2012, jubilant physicists working on the world's most powerful science experiment announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle scientists had been searching for since 1964.

Today, exactly ten years after announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson, the international ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) report the results of their most comprehensive studies yet of the properties of this unique particle. The independent studies, described in two papers published today in Nature, show that the particle's properties are remarkably consistent with those of the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. The studies also show that the particle is increasingly becoming a powerful means to search for new, unknown phenomena that—if found—could help shed light on some of the biggest mysteries of physics, such as the nature of the mysterious dark matter present in the universe.

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.

It is now 10 years since scientists first reported the observation of the Higgs boson in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. In the intervening decade, what have we learned about the so-called “God particle”? The most up-to-date properties of the elementary particle are presented in two papers published […]

Nature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering all branches of science and how science impacts upon all aspects of society and life.

Nuclear fusion has been a dream for decades. Kit Chapman finds out about the latest developments that could help it fulfil its promise

Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.

Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole’s spin, one of two fundamental properties of black

A scion of a renowned family of physicist, he helped set the stage for what has been called the golden age of black hole astrophysics.

The James Webb Space Telescope's powerful infrared instruments will be trained on three types of comets, potentially providing insight into the solar system's early life.

One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

As they warm up, quantum computers can slow down or stop working altogether. A new kind made with specially engineered diamonds cools as it calculates

To mark the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the poet Amy Catanzano celebrates the Higgs in verse. [Physics 15, 99] Published Fri Jul 01, 2022

Although most fundamental mathematical equations that describe electronic structures are long known, they are too complex to be solved in practice. This has hampered progress in physics, chemistry and the material sciences. Thanks to modern high-performance computing clusters and the establishment of the simulation method density functional theory (DFT), researchers were able to change this situation. However, even with these tools the modeled processes are in many cases still drastically simplified. Now, physicists at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) and the Institute of Radiation Physics at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) succeeded in significantly improving the DFT method. This opens up new possibilities for experiments with ultra-high intensity lasers, as the group explains in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

A photodetector is a kind of optoelectronic device that can detect optical signals and convert them into electrical signals. These devices include photodiodes, phototransistors and photoconductors.

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano in January 2022 was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era, a new study has confirmed.

Researchers improve a widely used simulation method for high-performance computing clusters.

Author(s): Dan GaristoTen years of Higgs physics have revealed how much more there is to learn about the mysterious particle. [Physics 15, 98] Published Fri Jul 01, 2022

Nanomaterials have created new avenues in biological and chemical analysis. Among various nanomaterials, quantum dots (QDs) serve as copper (Cu) sensors. Utilizing a microreactor enhances the...

Researchers at the Department of Physics and the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" of Universität Hamburg and the University of California at Irvine have recently proposed a new way to characterize topological superconductors by means of multi-THz-pulse experiments.

An international research team led by Willem Adrianus Baan from the star formation and evolution research group of the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has found evidence for periodic disk instability in the disk of the H2O megamaser galaxy NGC 4258.

Result suggests NASA’s Webb telescope will have plenty of galactic targets from the baby universe

Black holes. They used to be theoretical, up until the first one was found and confirmed back in the late 20th Century. Now, astronomers find them all over the place. We even have direct radio images of two black holes: one in M87 and Sagittarius A* in the center of our galaxy. So, what do … Continue reading "Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one… Doesn’t" The post Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one… Doesn’t appeared first on Universe Today.

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the future of Higgs boson research, 10 years after the particle's discovery

Author(s): Michael SchirberScience communicators had a field day with the 2012 Higgs discovery, as it offered a chance to energize the public about fundamental physics research. [Physics 15, 97] Published Thu Jun 30, 2022

The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle discovered on July 4, 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN, Switzerland.

Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole's spin, one of two fundamental properties of black holes. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows this black hole is spinning slower than most of its smaller cousins.

Many bird species fly together with conspecifics in flocks to safely cover flight distances. To avoid collisions with each other and head in the same direction, flock members have to communicate and coordinate their flight positions. Researchers led by Susanne Hoffmann from Manfred Gahr's department at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence investigated how this communication takes place in zebra finches. In their study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, they found that zebra finches use both vision and calls to coordinate their flight positions and avoid collisions.

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano in January 2022 was one of the most explosive volcanic events of the modern era, a new study has confirmed.

Light can be tailored, much like cloth, weaving and stitching a pattern into the very fabric of light itself. This so-called structured light allows us to access, harness and exploit all light's degrees of freedom, for seeing smaller in imaging, focusing tighter in microscopy and packing more information into light for classical and quantum communications. In their study published in Opto-Electronic Advances, the authors showcase the recent advances in replacing the traditional linear optical toolkit with nonlinear control.

The James Webb Space Telescope's first images are coming soon and scientists can't wait for us to see them.

Astrophysicists have developed the first 3D simulation of the entire evolution of a jet -- from its birth by a rotating black hole to its emission far from the collapsing star. Simulation shows that as the star collapses, its material falls on the disk that swirls around the black hole. This falling material tilts the disk, and, in turn, tilts the jet, which wobbles as it struggles to return to its original trajectory. The wobbling jet explains the longstanding mystery of why gamma ray bursts blink and shows that these bursts are even rarer than previously thought.

We finally have hints of what the first operational images will be from NASA's brand-new deep-space observatory.

Study reveals why mysterious gamma-ray bursts appear to blink and suggests that these mysterious phenomena might be much rarer than astronomers thought.

A Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists has developed the first-ever full 3D simulation of an entire evolution of a jet formed by a collapsing star, or a "collapsar."

Astrophysicists has developed the first-ever full 3D simulation of an entire evolution of a jet formed by a collapsing star, or a 'collapsar'. New simulation also shows gamma ray bursts are 10 times rarer than previously thought.

Author(s): Allison GaspariniUsing radioactive tritium, scientists improve laboratory constraints on the overdensity signal of cosmic relic neutrinos by a factor of 100, an advance that should improve the chances of spotting this elusive particle. [Physics 15, s85] Published Wed Jun 29, 2022

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Biophysics and Physicobiology how to optimize high-speed atomic force microscopy experiments on live cell membranes, so that moving objects like molecules can be properly followed from frame to frame.

Author(s): M. Aker et al. (KATRIN Collaboration)Using radioactive tritium, scientists improve laboratory constraints on the “overdensity” signal of cosmic relic neutrinos by a factor of 100, an advance that should improve the chances of spotting this elusive particle. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011806] Published Wed Jun 29, 2022

Author(s): R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)World-leading constraints are placed on nonstandard neutrino interactions using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011804] Published Wed Jun 29, 2022

In a new report now published in Science Advances, Zongyao Zhou and a team of scientists in chemical engineering and physical science and engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia developed an artificial light-gated ion channel membrane using conjugated microporous polymers. The team was inspired by light-gated ion channels in cell membranes that play an important role in many biological activities to precisely regulate the membrane pore size and thickness at the molecular level via bottom-up design and electropolymerization methods. The process led to reversible "on/off" light control for light-gated ion transport across the membrane to deliver hydrogen, potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium and aluminum ions.

The famous particle may point to cracks in the standard model and new physics beyond.

An optical measurement method devised by a team of AMOLF researchers aims to simplify and streamline the ability to capture measurements from signals that are barely larger than the noise contained in the same system. The newly introduced approach uses a proposed single-mode Kerr-nonlinear resonator to perform sensing in noisy environments. Specifically, the method aims to reduce the influence of noise — an important consideration in detection with optical systems — when measuring very small signals. According to AMOLF group leader Said Rodriguez, who developed the measurement approach with researcher Kevin Peters, precision is sometimes the most important consideration in the physical measurements of a system, with...

How to optimize high-speed atomic force microscopy experiments on live cell membranes, so that moving objects like molecules can be properly followed from frame to frame.

New research looks at positron scattering from rare gas atoms encapsulated in carbon 60 to investigate quantum properties that can't be tested with electrons.

Join in for free Wednesday (June 29) as NASA celebrates the forthcoming end of commissioning for its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope.

New research looks at positron scattering from rare gas atoms encapsulated in carbon 60 to investigate quantum properties that can't be tested with electrons.

New research introduces a simple way to determine the temperature of a stored biomolecule and assess how it changes overtime.

Swave Photonics says its technology delivers life-like 3D imagery with no need for bulky headsets or prescription glasses.

Peter Higgs, as Frank Close reveals in his new book, was just one of many physicists who helped crack the mystery of mass’s origins.

High-energy neutrinos are highly fascinating subatomic particles produced when very fast charged particles collide with other particles or photons. IceCube, a renowned neutrino detector located at the South Pole, has been detecting extragalactic high-energy neutrinos for almost a decade.

Quantum collaboration demonstrates in Chicagoland the first steps toward functional long-distance quantum networks over deployed telecom fiber optics, opening the door to scalable quantum computing.

The thing with black holes is they're hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and not tied to another luminous astronomical, it would be fiendishly hard to detect them. But now we have a new potential data set to do so.

The old joke is that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away. Yet the dream of abundant clean energy is no laughing matter as we meet an ITER researcher to catch up on progress at the reactor facility.

GSK has awarded individuals or two-people research teams its Award for Research Excellence (ARE) since 1980. For the first time since the pandemic began, the GSK ARE will be presented in person at the Research Australia Awards Night, Thursday 13 October, 2022 in Melbourne. One of the most prestigious and longstanding awards in Australian medical […]

The thing with black holes is they’re hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and not tied to another luminous astronomical, it would be fiendishly hard to detect them. But now we have … Continue reading "Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way" The post Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.

By trapping light into tiny gaps only a few atoms wide, a team from the NanoPhotonics Center at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has magnified optical forces a thousand-fold, strong enough to force atoms into positions that drive chemical reactions more efficiently.

Quantum collaboration demonstrates in Chicagoland the first steps toward functional long-distance quantum networks over deployed telecom fiber optics,

A new study has shown how gravitational waves can be used to detect exotic particles orbiting black holes. The post We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves appeared first on Universe Today.

An exoplanet hunter and first-light detector on the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to do science, six months after the observatory launched to space.

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the digital transformation of university education. Over the last two years, the rest of the world's higher education centers have joined the pioneering universities which were created and established in an exclusively online format, like the UOC. And today, the vast majority offer at least some courses that are entirely digital. However, although the university ecosystem has changed, the rankings that rate and position them still fail to take this format into account.

Life (as we know it) is based on carbon. Despite its ubiquity, this important element still holds plenty of secrets, on earth and in the heavens above us. For example, astrophysicists like Columbia's Daniel Wolf Savin who study interstellar clouds want to understand how the chemicals, including carbon, swirling within these nebulous aggregations of gas and dust form the stars and planets that dot our universe and give rise to organic life.

Next time the Event Horizon Telescope turns to study the monster black hole at the center of the Milky Way, it will have help from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest particle accelerator. It's located at the European particle physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.

MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for quantum computing and biological

Researchers have found a new way to detect some of the most cataclysmic mergers in the universe before they happen.