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Universe may be expanding at slower rate than previously thought

Apr 12, 2015 (UPI)

A new theory claims the universe might not be expanding as quickly as was previously thought. Scientists at the University of Arizona recently found that the su...

Unravelling relativistic effects in the heaviest actinide element

Apr 12, 2015 (SPX)

An international collaboration led by the research group of superheavy elements at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai, Japan has achieved the ionizati...

Demonstration of ultra-cold neutrino experiment a success

Apr 12, 2015 (SPX)

An international team of nuclear physicists announced the first scientific results from the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment...

Black holes don't erase information, scientists say

Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)

Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. Burn a book, and you could theoretically do the same. But send information into a black hole, and it's los...

Tunneling across a tiny gap

Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)

Conduction and thermal radiation are two ways in which heat is transferred from one object to another: Conduction is the process by which heat flows between obj...

Particle smasher starts up again, says CERN

Apr 05, 2015 (AFP)

The world's biggest particle collider was back in operation Sunday after a two-year upgrade, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said. As part...

Quantum teleportation on a chip

Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)

The core circuits of quantum teleportation, which generate and detect quantum entanglement, have been successfully integrated into a photonic chip by an interna...

Super sensitive measurement of magnetic fields

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

There are electrical signals in the nervous system, the brain and throughout the human body and there are tiny magnetic fields associated with these signals tha...

Black hole winds pull the plug on star formation

Mar 30, 2015 (ESA)

Astronomers using ESA's Herschel space observatory have found that the winds blowing from a huge black hole are sweeping away its host galaxy's reservoir of raw...

Science: Theory of the strong interaction verified

Mar 30, 2015 (SPX)

The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly those properties that make our world and ultimat...

Behind the dogmas of good old hydrodynamics

Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)

A new theory, which gives new insights into the transport of liquid flowing along the surface under applied electric field, was developed by the group of Russia...

Physicists solve low-temperature magnetic mystery

Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers have made an experimental breakthrough in explaining a rare property of an exotic magnetic material, potentially opening a path to a host of new tec...

Quantum experiment verifies Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'

Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)

An experiment devised in Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics has for the first time demonstrated Albert Einstein's original conception of "spooky ...

Thousands of atoms entangled with a single photon

Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using only a single photon. The res...

Supermassive black hole clears star-making gas from galaxy's core

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

Many nearby galaxies blast huge, wide-angled outpourings of material from their center, ejecting enough gas and dust to build more than a thousand stars the siz...

Quantum correlation can imply causation

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

Contrary to the statistician's slogan, in the quantum world, certain kinds of correlations do imply causation. Research from the Institute for Quantum Computing...

Short circuit delays particle hunter machine restart

Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)

A short-circuit at the world's largest proton smasher has indefinitely delayed the particle-hunting machine's planned restart, the European Organisation for Nuc...

Black holes and the dark sector explained by quantum gravity

Mar 24, 2015 (SPX)

Ask any theoretical physicist on what are the most profound mysteries in physics and you will be surprised if she mentions anything other than Quantum Gravity a...

Frozen highly charged ions for highest precision spectroscopy

Mar 16, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig and the Univers...

Quantum mechanic frequency filter for atomic clocks

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Atomic clocks are the most accurate clocks in the world. In an atomic clock, electrons jumping from one orbit to another decides the clock's frequency. To get t...