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New Technique Uses Electrical Voltages to Control Electron Spin on a Chip

Physicists have developed a new technique that uses electrical voltages to control the electron spin on a chip.

20 Jul 2017

Researchers Find Strong Evidence that Higgs Particle Decays into Quarks

As part of the ATLAS collaboration, the Freiburg research group led by Prof. Dr. Karl Jakobs and Dr. Christian Weiser has contributed to finding strong evidence that, among other things, the Higgs particle decays into quarks.

20 Jul 2017

Researchers show quantum particles can move against their momentum

A team from the University of York found that quantum particles have a probability of moving backwards, against their momentum.

19 Jul 2017

First Collaborative Exoplanet Search Teams Discover New Hot Jupiter

A new ‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanet has been discovered by scientists led by a team at Keele University. The new giant planet was jointly discovered by a WASP/KELT survey alliance, making this the first time an exoplanet has been discovered between two planet search teams.

19 Jul 2017

NASA's Gamma-Ray Telescopes Observe a Trap that Concentrates the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays

A collective study on the data obtained from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), a ground-based observatory in Namibia, reveals that the center of the Milky Way comprises of a "trap" that is capable of concentrating some of the highest-energy cosmic rays, among the fastest particles present in the galaxy.

19 Jul 2017

Scientists Use Van Allen Probes Mission to Understand Dynamics of Plasma Waves

Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves unlike anything we experience on Earth.

18 Jul 2017

NASA-Funded Planet 9 Citizen Science Project Identifies New Brown Dwarf

One night three months ago, Rosa Castro finished her dinner, opened her laptop, and uncovered a novel object that was neither planet nor star.

18 Jul 2017

EPFL Scientists Experimentally Realize New Quantum Many Body State in a 2D Material

Many physical phenomena can be modeled with relatively simple math. But, in the quantum world there are a vast number of intriguing phenomena that emerge from the interactions of multiple particles -- "many bodies" - which are notoriously difficult to model and simulate, even with powerful computers.

18 Jul 2017

Ion Temperature of One Hundred Million Degrees Generated for First Time in Helical Plasma

In order to achieve burning plasma, it is necessary to steadily maintain high-temperature and high-density plasma.

17 Jul 2017

New Technique for Aligning Molecules Uses Lasers and Ultra-Cold Helium Droplets

Chemical reactions necessarily involve molecules coming together, and the way they interact can depend on how they are aligned relative to each other.

17 Jul 2017