Physics
- Neutrino Physics: The Status
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The XVI edition of Neutrino Telescopes is over and it is the time for some summing up – which I feel completely unsuited to do, as I was just an observer there. As you know, my field is high-energy collider physics, and neutrino physics has become a very ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 9 2015 - 9:17am
- 3-D image of a virus plotted using X-ray Diffraction
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An international team of physicists have been able to reconstruct the first ever 3-D image of individual virus particles by tweaking the X-ray diffraction technique of nanocrystallography 1 Cleverly bypassing the tedious procedure of crystallizing individ ...
Blog Post - Akshit Kumar - Mar 13 2015 - 5:17am
- Gold nanotubes to kill cancer cells
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A research team from University of Leeds has figured out a way to kill cancer cells photothermally. They used Near-Infrared (NIR) to heat up gold nanotubes, and, a single-wavelength pulsed laser beam to rapidly increase the temperature near the nanotubes. ...
Blog Post - Akshit Kumar - Mar 13 2015 - 2:10pm
- First successful teleportation of two quantum properties, simultaneously
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Two photonic properties- spin and OAM 1- have been teleported together for the first time ever. The breakthrough was achieved by Chaoyang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan and their team at University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei. The team teleported the comp ...
Blog Post - Akshit Kumar - Mar 13 2015 - 2:43pm
- Controlling Heat With Magnets: ELM Breakthrough In Fusion Research
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General Atomics, which operates the DIII-D National Fusion Facility for the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a breakthrough in understanding how potentially damaging heat bu ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2015 - 3:49pm
- The Graph Of The Week: Hyper-Boosted Top Quarks
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The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle. It was discovered in 1995 by the CDF and DZERO experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron collider after a long hunt that had started almost two decades earlier: it took long because the top weighs as much ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 16 2015 - 8:55pm
- Uranium And The Natural Nuclear Reactor
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Uranium is the element having 92 protons in its nucleus with typically 146 neutrons. It is the largest naturally occurring element. Like naturally occurring Thorium, uranium is radioactive and eventually decays into radium and radon which are likewise r ...
Article - Robert Hayes - Mar 18 2015 - 9:12pm
- No, You Can't Catch A Photon Simultaneously Behaving As A Pure Particle And Wave
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By Ben P. ...
Article - Inside Science - Mar 20 2015 - 8:00am
- What Are Fundamental Particles?
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It is often claimed that the Ancient Greeks were the first to identify objects that have no size, yet are able to build up the world around us through their interactions. And as we are able to observe the world in tinier and tinier detail through microsco ...
Article - The Conversation - Mar 21 2015 - 8:30am
- Spring Flukes: New 3-Sigma Signals From LHCb And ATLAS
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Spring is finally in, and with it the great expectations for a new run of the Large Hadron Collider, which will restart in a month or so with a 62.5% increase in center of mass energy of the proton-proton collisions it produces: 13 TeV. At 13 TeV, the prod ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 23 2015 - 11:36am