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Study Predicts Matter in Optical Lattices Form Quantum Rings

Ultracold atoms trapped in appropriately prepared optical traps can arrange themselves in surprisingly complex, hitherto unobserved structures, according to scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow.

19 Jun 2020

Gamma-Ray Emission from Quasars Extends Along Jets of Plasma

An international team of more than 200 researchers from 13 countries has demonstrated that the emission of very high-energy gamma-rays from quasars—galaxies with a highly energetic nucleus—is not focused in the region close to their central black hole but extends over several thousand light-years across jets of plasma.

18 Jun 2020

New Technique to Stop Could be Useful for Future Quantum Computers

How do you stop something that is faster than anything else, intangible and always in motion by nature- A team led by physicists Dr. Thorsten Peters and Professor Thomas Halfmann is doing the seemingly impossible: stopping light for tiny fractions of a second.

18 Jun 2020

Researchers Detect Fast Radio Bursts from Unknown Source Outside Milky Way

A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away.

18 Jun 2020

Most Sensitive Dark Matter Experiment Shows Surprising Excess of Events

Scientists from the international XENON collaboration, an international experimental group including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo; the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo; the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University; the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University; and the Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events.

18 Jun 2020