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Axionic Strings Found to Exhibit Odd Behavior if Produced in Exotic Materials

Researchers have partially solved the mystery of a hypothetical particle that serves as the solution to one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

16 Nov 2020

Study Reveals History of Temperature Changes in the Universe

How hot is the Universe today- How hot was it before- A new study by an international team of researchers, including members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), suggests that the mean temperature of gas in large structures of the Universe has increased about 3 times in the last 8 billion years, to reach about two million Kelvin today.

16 Nov 2020

Orbits of Ancient Stars Prompt Rethink on Milky Way Evolution

Australian telescopes and European satellite combine to reveal unexpected motions among the Galaxy’s rarest objects

16 Nov 2020

Exotic Low-Mass Fields Could Help Observe Astrophysical Events

Black hole mergers are cataclysmic astrophysical events that can discharge energy in unforeseen forms.

12 Nov 2020

Connecting Two Different Types of Unconventional Superconductors

The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state physics.

12 Nov 2020

Research Explains How Electrons Supertransport Current in 'Bad Metals'

In jargon, they are called "bad metals", but they are not really so bad. As a matter of fact, they are the best superconductors because they are able to conduct current with the highest efficiency and without resistance up to high temperatures.

12 Nov 2020

LHCb Observation: First Experimental Evidence of a Four-Charm Tetraquark

The strong interaction is one of the fundamental forces of nature, which binds quarks into hadrons such as the proton and the neutron, the building blocks of atoms.

12 Nov 2020

USask Physicist Joins with UK Partners to Develop New a Quantum Magnetometer

As part of a new U.K.-Canada collaboration, a University of Saskatchewan quantum physics team will develop a highly sensitive and precise sensor for measuring magnetic fields, a technology of potential benefit for geological prospecting, medicine, and quantum computers.

11 Nov 2020

New Isotope-Separation Facility Used to Make Beams of Heavy Tantalum Isotopes

An international group of researchers has demonstrated the production of a purified beam of neutron-rich, radioactive tantalum ions.

11 Nov 2020

Astronomers Record First Direct Discovery of a Cold Brown Dwarf

Researchers of a collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF), both on Maunakea in Hawai‘i, have reported the first-ever direct observation of a cold brown dwarf using its radio wavelength emission.

10 Nov 2020

Scientists Investigate Short-Range Nuclear Interactions Between Protons and Neutrons

Atoms in a gas can seem like partiers at a nanoscopic rave, with particles zipping around, pairing up, and flying off again in seemingly random fashion.

10 Nov 2020

Tiny Device can Pave the Way for High Performance Quantum Computers

Bristol researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art.

10 Nov 2020

Tiny Device Enables Quantum Computers, Communications with Higher Performance

Scientists from the Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) at the University of Bristol’s, as well as from Université Côte d‘Azur, have developed a new miniaturized light detector that can perform in-depth quantification of quantum features of light like never before.

10 Nov 2020

Hidden Matter in the Universe Detected by Statistical Analysis of Historical Data

According to astrophysicists, nearly 40% of the ordinary matter that forms planets, stars, and galaxies stays undiscovered, hidden in the form of hot gas in the complex cosmic web.

9 Nov 2020