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Mile-Deep Experiment on Fast Track to Help Detect Dark Matter Particles

The race is on to build the most sensitive U.S.-based experiment designed to directly detect dark matter particles. Department of Energy officials have formally approved a key construction milestone that will propel the project toward its April 2020 goal for completion.

14 Feb 2017

Researchers Successfully Detect Two-Fold Symmetry of Superconductivity in SrxBi2Se3

The study on topological superconductors (TSCs) is one of the hotspots in the field of condensed matter physics and has drawn great attention. Recently, Prof. Hai-Hu Wen's group from Nanjing University succeeds in detecting the two-fold symmetry of the superconductivity in SrxBi2Se3, which provides new evidence for the argument that SrxBi2Se3 is a TSC.

14 Feb 2017

Quantum Replicants Could be More Efficient than Classical Models, Find Researchers

The word 'replicant' evokes thoughts of a sci-fi world where society has replaced common creatures with artificial machines that replicate their behaviour.

14 Feb 2017

ETH Physicists Create New Method of Data Categorisation

Theoretical physicists from ETH Zurich deliberately misled intelligent machines, and thus refined the process of machine learning. They created a new method that allows computers to categorise data – even when humans have no idea what this categorisation might look like.

14 Feb 2017

Machine Learning Algorithms May Play Vital Role in Identifying Different Phases of Condensed Matter

A machine learning algorithm designed to teach computers how to recognize photos, speech patterns, and hand-written digits has now been applied to a vastly different set of data: identifying phase transitions between states of matter.

14 Feb 2017

Hubble Space Telescope Sees Spiral in Andromeda Constellation

The Andromeda constellation is one of the 88 modern constellations and should not be confused with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda constellation is home to the pictured galaxy known as NGC 7640.

13 Feb 2017

Astronomy Experiments Could Soon Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

Astronomy experiments could soon test an idea developed by Albert Einstein almost exactly a century ago, scientists say.

13 Feb 2017

University of Basel Physicists Calculate Signal of Specific Gravitational Wave Sources

For the first time, theoretical physicists from the University of Basel have calculated the signal of specific gravitational wave sources that emerged fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

13 Feb 2017

MIT Scientists Estimate Lifetime of Solar Nebula

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this interstellar material contracted at the disk’s center to form the sun, and part of the solar nebula’s remaining gas and dust condensed to form the planets and the rest of our solar system.

12 Feb 2017

Researchers Study Quantum State in Mott Insulators

Electrons in Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling assemble themselves in a manner that makes the materials magnetic at low temperatures. This has been proved by several experiments, and the research on this could help arrive at a more complete quantum theory of magnetism.

10 Feb 2017