Physics

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

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

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

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

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

By Ben P. ...

Article - Inside Science - Mar 20 2015 - 8:00am

What Are Fundamental Particles?

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

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

When Does Quantum Mechanics Become Classical Physics?

When most people think of quantum mechanics they think of Schroedinger's cat, a thought experiment describing a cat inside a closed box, that may be either dead or alive. Only when the classical physics world enters the box do we know. But what is the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2015 - 1:58pm

Another One Bites The Dust- WW Cross Section Gets Back Where It Belongs

Sometimes I think I am really lucky to have grown convinced that the Standard Model will not be broken by LHC results. It gives me peace of mind, detachment, and the opportunity to look at every new result found in disagreement with predictions with the ri ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 27 2015 - 5:30pm