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Investigations of the skyrmion Hall effect reveal surprising results
Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made another important breakthrough in the fie...
Timekeepers add 'leap second' to world clocks for new year
Dec 31, 2016 (UPI)
Clocks around the world will add a leap second to coordinate with a change in the speed of Earth's rotation. NASA will implement the additional second just befo...
ALPHA observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time
Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)
In a paper published in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achie...
JILA atomic clock mimics long-sought synthetic magnetic state
Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)
Using their advanced atomic clock to mimic other desirable quantum systems, JILA physicists have caused atoms in a gas to behave as if they possess unusual magn...
Existence of a short-lived tetraneutron predicted
Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)
A member of the Lomonosov Moscow State University together with his colleagues, using new interaction between neutrons, have theoretically justified the low-ene...
Saudi Arabia Adopts Western Calendar
Dec 28, 2016 (Sputnik)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken a near 600-year leap into modernity. The second deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, has anno...
Cerium hexaboride challenges physicists to come up with new theory
Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from MIPT and other research institutes and universities have discovered unusual phenomena occurring in a single cerium hexaboride (CeB?) crystal. By...
Magnifying time reveals fundamental rogue wave instabilities of nature
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies time to reveal how ultrafast intense pulses of...
Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron interactions
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists studying high temperature superconductors-materials that carry electric current with no energy loss when cooled below a certain temperature-have been...
New antimatter breakthrough to help illuminate mysteries of the Big Bang
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Swansea University scientists working at CERN have made a landmark finding, taking them one step closer to answering the question of why matter exists and illum...
New theoretical framework for improved particle accelerators
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), in collaboration with researchers in South Korea and Germany, ha...
Stretching time to improve extreme event prediction
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
Stretching time scales to explore extreme events in nature seemed impossible, yet this feat is now conceivable thanks to a team from the Institut FEMTO-ST (CNRS...
Number of known black holes expected to double in two years with new detection method
Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed a method that will detect roughly 10 black holes per year, doubling the number currently known within...
Spinning black hole swallowing star explains superluminous event
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
In 2015, the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) detected an event, named ASASSN-15lh, that was recorded as the brightest supernova ever - and cat...
Blocks of ice demonstrate levitated and directed motion
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice becomes highly mobile due to a levitating layer of water between it and ...
High-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
The University of Leicester is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite 'SVOM' which is designed ...
Neutrons identify key ingredients of the quantum spin liquid recipe
Dec 12, 2016 (SPX)
Neutron scattering studies of a rare earth metal oxide have identified fundamental pieces to the quantum spin liquid puzzle, revealing a better understanding of...
High-precision magnetic field sensing
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, which is operated jointly by ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, have succeeded in measuring tin...
Confirmation of Wendelstein 7-X magnetic field
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
Physicist Sam Lazerson of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has teamed with German scientists to confirm that the...
'Spooky' sightings in crystal point to extremely rare quantum spin liquid
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
Inside a new exotic crystal, physicist Martin Mourigal has observed strong indications of "spooky" action, and lots of it. The results of his experiments, if co...
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