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Study Offers New Explanation for Appearance of High-Energy Neutrinos

A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new explanation for two recent strange events that occurred in Antarctica - high-energy neutrinos appearing to come up out of the Earth on their own accord and head skyward.

10 Jun 2020

Study Reveals How Quasars with Parabola-Shaped Jets Evolve into Cones

A team of researchers from Finland, Germany, Russia, and the United States has analyzed over 300 quasars, which are spinning black holes producing plasma beams.

9 Jun 2020

Astronomers Use VLA to Observe Hidden Hot Corino of Protostar Pair

In response to an intuition, a group of astronomers has presumably solved a puzzle related to young, still-forming stars and organic molecules-rich regions closely surrounding them.

9 Jun 2020

Study Mimics Shock Wave Conditions of Supernova Remnants in Lab

When stars explode as supernovas, they produce shock waves in the plasma surrounding them. So powerful are these shock waves, they can act as particle accelerators that blast streams of particles, called cosmic rays, out into the universe at nearly the speed of light.

9 Jun 2020

Synthesizing New Alpha-Amino Acid Using Quantum Chemical Calculations

Hokkaido University scientists have succeeded in synthesizing an a,a-difluoroglycine derivative, a type of alpha-amino acid, based on a reaction path predicted by quantum chemical calculations.

9 Jun 2020

Experiment Captures Photoelectron Signal of Excess Electrons in Liquid Ammonia

An international team has developed a sophisticated experimental technique at BESSY II to observe the formation of a metallic conduction band in electrolytes.

8 Jun 2020

New Experiment Designed to Study Dynamics Inside the Proton

Physicists around the world are cracking open the proton, within the nucleus of the atom, to see what's inside.

8 Jun 2020

Advanced Quantum Algorithm to Measure Physical Quantities

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, joined by a colleague from Argonne National Laboratory, U.S., have implemented an advanced quantum algorithm for measuring physical quantities using simple optical tools.

8 Jun 2020

New Data for Detecting the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider

CMS and ATLAS have teamed up to present their new results on the novel signatures for identifying the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

5 Jun 2020

New Method to Create, Tune Topological Edge States in 2D Topological Insulators

Physicists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have devised a new technique to develop and adjust the topological edge states in two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) for prospective spintronic device applications.

5 Jun 2020

Unique Microscope Unravels the Field of Quantum Science

A group of researchers, including Professor Ido Kaminer, from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has made a revolutionary breakthrough in the area of quantum science—a quantum microscope that is capable of recording the flow of light.

4 Jun 2020

Simulations Propose New Theory for Origin of Supermassive Black Holes

At Tohoku University in Japan, astrophysicists have performed computer simulations revealing a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes.

3 Jun 2020

Achieving Magnetic Modulation of Light Polarization for Quantum Data Transfer

In the field of nanophotonics, the polarization of light is used as an information carrier for optical communications, imaging, and sensing. Similarly, for the photonic transfer of quantum information, the light polarization state plays a crucial role.

3 Jun 2020

Astronomers Capture a Pulsar 'Powering Up'

A Monash-University-led collaboration has, for the first time, observed the full, 12-day process of material spiralling into a distant neutron star, triggering an X-ray outburst thousands of times brighter than our Sun.

3 Jun 2020