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NIST creates fundamentally accurate quantum thermometer

Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)

Better thermometers might be possible as a result of a discovery at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where physicists have found a way...

Chinese scientists realize quantum simulation of the Unruh effect

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

Quantum mechanics and relativity theory are two pillars of modern physics. With their amalgamation, many novel phenomena have been identified. For example, the ...

Quantum simulation of a disordered system explain quantum many-particle problem

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

Using some of the largest supercomputers available, physics researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have produced one of the largest sim...

Theoretical physics discovery to set the research field buzzing

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

Bazinga! University of Cincinnati theoretical physicists are about to report on a controversial discovery that they say contradicts the work of researchers over...

The linguistics of signifying time: The human gesture as clock

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

A new scientific study documenting the linguistic practices of the Northwestern Amazonian peoples uncovers an unusual method of communicating the human concept ...

IBS team detects hot electrons in real time

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

From converting vehicle exhaust fumes into less harmful gases to refining petroleum, most commercial chemical applications require nanocatalysts since they can ...

Clocking the rotation rate of a supermassive black hole

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

A recent observational campaign involving more than two dozen optical telescopes and NASA's space based SWIFT X-ray telescope allowed a team of astronomers to m...

The 'great smoky dragon' of quantum physics

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Since the 17th century, science was intrigued by the nature of light. Isaac Newton was certain that it consists of a stream of particles. His contemporary Chris...

Mysterious infrared light from space resolved perfectly

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

A research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the faintest millimeter-wave source ever observed. By accumulating mi...

Flexible skin that traps radar waves, cloaks objects

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable "meta-skin" that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an obj...

How to Detect Colliding Black Holes

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

On March 18, 2016, Harald Pfeiffer, Associate Professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics, Toronto, will be honoured with a Bessel Award of the ...

NIST's internet time service serves the world

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

The Internet Time Service operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) serves much of the Earth, with customers from around the globe. ...

IU physicist leads discovery of new particle: '4-flavored' tetraquark

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

Research led by Indiana University physicist Daria Zieminska has resulted in the first detection of a new form of elementary particle: the "four-flavored" tetra...

Do we see the trailer for the upcoming blockbuster of LHC?

Mar 13, 2016 (SPX)

In light of the latest analysis on the decay of beauty mesons, the dawn of a new era, that of 'new physics', may be approaching. An important contribution to th...

The world's newest atom-smasher achieves its 'first turns'

Mar 11, 2016 (SPX)

One of the world's top particle accelerators has reached a milestone, achieving its "first turns" - circulating beams of particles for the first time - and open...

The expansion of the universe simulated

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

The Universe is constantly expanding. It changes, creating new structures that merge. But how does our Universe evolve? Physicists at the University of Geneva (...

Star Trek's vision becomes reality in teleportation first

Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)

'Beam me up, Scotty' - even if Captain Kirk supposedly never said this exact phrase, it remains a popular catch-phrase to this day. Whenever the chief commander...

Star Trek's vision becomes reality

Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)

'Beam me up, Scotty' - even if Captain Kirk supposedly never said this exact phrase, it remains a popular catch-phrase to this day. Whenever the chief commander...

German scientists successfully teleport classical information

Mar 04, 2016 (UPI)

Using a series of laser beams, a pair of German scientists successfully teleported classical information without the transfer or matter or energy. Researchers h...

Shattering the Cosmic Distance Record, Once Again

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

Yale astronomers have found the farthest known galaxy in the universe - again. Less than a year after aiding in the measurement of a galaxy 13.1 billion light y...