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Scientists Demonstrate Existence of Entanglement Area Law in Real Quantum Liquid

A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behavior of black holes out in space—is also true for cold helium atoms that can be studied in laboratories.

22 Mar 2017

ISU Physicist Researches Quantum Physics by Studying Atomic Collisions

A jumble of letters and numbers fills the computer screen. To an untrained onlooker, the lines may look like gibberish, but it is actually a computer code key to understanding the smallest pieces of the universe.

21 Mar 2017

New Feedback System Could Control Energy and Rotation of Plasma in Real Time

Like a potter shaping clay as it spins on a wheel, physicists use magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control and shape the plasma as it twists and turns through a fusion device.

21 Mar 2017

Star’s 'Death Spiral' Creates Shock Waves Far from Black Hole

Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy. Intense tides tore the star apart, which produced an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that first reached Earth in 2014.

21 Mar 2017

SJTU Researchers Detect Majorana Fermion in Artificial Topological Superconductor

The detection of Majorana fermion is one of the hotspots in the study of condensed matter recently. The research group in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) achieved great breakthrough in the detection of Majorana fermion in the artificial topological superconductor, which is the heterostructure of a normal superconductor and a topological insulator.

20 Mar 2017

Researchers Reveal Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum of Plasmons

A team of Israeli and German researchers from Technion in Haifa and the universities of Kaiserslautern, Duisburg-Essen and Stuttgart have been able to reveal for the first time the dynamics of the orbital angular momentum of plasmons.

20 Mar 2017

Quantum Theory Model of Humor Could Explain Why Jokes Seem to be Funny

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the ambiguity of the joke.

20 Mar 2017

New Discovery of Third Runaway Star Provides Strong Evidence on Breakup of Multiple-Star System

As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star war far away in the Orion Nebula.

20 Mar 2017

New Microwave Measurement Method Beats Quantum Limit of Measurement

Research groups at Aalto University and the University of Jyväskylä have demonstrated a new microwave measurement method that goes to the quantum limit of measurement and beats it.

17 Mar 2017

NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover Relativistic Electrons in the Inner Belt

The behavior of Earthâ€™s radiation belts is yet to be completely understood even though these two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encompassing our planet were discovered more than 50 years ago.

16 Mar 2017