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Cornell Researchers Discover New Phase Transitions in Superfluid Helium

When Cornell physicists Robert Richardson, David Lee and Douglas Osheroff received the 1996 Nobel Prize for their discovery of the superfluid state of liquid helium, it was only the beginning.

10 Jul 2017

Research Unveils that Iron-Based Materials Possess Fine Superconducting Properties

Due to magnetism iron should - theoretically - be a poor superconductor. Nevertheless certain ironbased materials possess fine superconducting properties. Why? Because the five unbound electrons found in iron - as a result of individual modes of operation, it turns out - facilitate superconductivity.

10 Jul 2017

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Stunning New Image of Hidden Galaxy

IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target. Although it is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where the sky is thick with glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dark, obscuring dust.

10 Jul 2017

Researchers Theoretically Predict New Class of Insulating Phases of Matter in Crystalline Materials

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University have theoretically predicted a new class of insulating phases of matter in crystalline materials, pinpointed where they might be found in nature, and in the process generalized the fundamental quantum theory of Berry phases in solid state systems.

10 Jul 2017

Scientists Make First Direct Measurements of Giant Electromagnetic Fields

Scientists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University together with their Russian and foreign colleagues have done for the first time direct measurements of giant electromagnetic fields, emerging in dielectric particles with the high refractive index at the scattering of electromagnetic waves.

10 Jul 2017

CERN's LHCb Experiment Observes New Particle Containing Two Charm Quarks

Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Ξcc++ (Xicc++) a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark.

7 Jul 2017

Hubble Highlights Brilliant Patches of Newly Formed Stars Within the Lensed Galaxy

When it comes to the distant universe, even the keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can only go so far. Teasing out finer details requires clever thinking and a little help from a cosmic alignment with a gravitational lens.

7 Jul 2017

Researchers Use Most Powerful Lasers on Earth to Recreate Supernovae

Researchers from the University of Oxford are using the largest, most intense lasers on the planet, to for the first time, show the general public how to recreate the effects of supernovae, in a laboratory.

7 Jul 2017

VLT's SPHERE Allows Astronomers to Take Real Photography of an Exoplanet

An international team of astronomers, including members of the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, discovered an exoplanet by direct imaging using SPHERE, an instrument designed and developed by a consortium of 12 European institutes on the Very Large Telescope ESO, based in Chile.

7 Jul 2017

Researchers Reveal Unique Nature of Quantum Solitary Waves

Solitary waves, called solitons, appear in many forms. Maybe the most recognizable form is the tsunami, which forms after a disruption on the ocean floor and can travel, without any reduction in intensity, at high speeds for hundreds of miles.

6 Jul 2017