Physics

Nanophysics meets Medical Science: One contrast agent for six imaging techniques

International researchers have reported a nanoparticle (74 nm in diameter) that can be used as a contrast agent for six different medical imaging techniques: Near IR CT Scanning Fluorescence Imaging Photoacoustic Imaging PET Scanning Cerenkov-Luminescence ...

Blog Post - Akshit Kumar - Mar 1 2015 - 1:18am

Neutrino Physics: Poster Excerpts from Neutel XVI

The XVI edition of "Neutrino Telescopes" is about to start in Venice today. In the meantime, I have started to publish in the conference blog a few excerpts of the posters that compete for the "best poster award" at the conference this ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 2 2015 - 7:11am

Francis Halzen On Cosmogenic Neutrinos

During the first afternoon session of the XVI Neutrino Telescopes conference (here is the conference blog, which contains a report of most of the lectures and posters as they are presented) Francis Halzen gave a very nice account of the discovery of cosmo ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 2 2015 - 5:38pm

Recent Results From Super-Kamiokande

(The XVIth edition of "Neutrino Telescopes" is going on in Venice this week. The writeup below is from a talk by M.Nakahata at the morning session today. For more on the conference and the results shown and discussed there, see the conference bl ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 3 2015 - 5:20am

Synchrotron Light Source II First Data Publication

Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory only achieved first light a few weeks ago and already collaborators at the X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XPD) beamline have tested a setup that yielded data on thermoelectric materials. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2015 - 8:30am

The Borexino Detector And Its Physics Results

At the XVI Neutrino Telescopes conference going on this week in Venice there was a nice presentation on the results of the Borexino experiment. The text below is a writeup of the highlights from the talk, given by Cristiano Galbiati from Princeton Univers ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2015 - 10:55am

Poster Excerpts on Neutrino Physics

The Poster session of Neutrino Telescopes XVI will take place tonight in Venice, at the first floor of the beautiful Palazzo Franchetti. Poster submitters have produced excerpts for the conference blog, so you can also get a summary of the presented result ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 5 2015 - 4:39am

Quantum Cryptography Core Question At The Heart Of Quantum Information Theory Answered?!?

Cryptography aims to secure communication. Eve should not be able to eavesdrop on the communication between Alice and Bob. Quantum cryptography is 100% secure in as far as the physics is concerned. However, it is unsatisfying if this security is merely pr ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 7 2015 - 6:28am

Neutrino Physics: The Status

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

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