How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with…
A ‘direct wave’ from colliding black holes reveals signature of a whirlpool in spacetime
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When…
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’
image: A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By…
Inertial migration of spherical particle in shear flow of shear-thinning fluids | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
3.1. Effect of Carreau number, viscosity ratio and power-law index We begin by examining the influence of shear…
New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientist
Astronomers have discovered a “remarkable” bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 million light-years…
Amaravati Quantum Valley reaches 4 Kelvin with indigenous dilution refrigerator
India has taken a significant step towards building its own quantum computing ecosystem after Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV)…
Sterically protected π-electron systems for efficient solid-state photon upconversion
Takata, T. et al. Photocatalytic water splitting with a quantum efficiency of almost unity. Nature 581, 411–414 (2020).…
A company outside Boston just craned the second 48-ton half of a steel donut into Tokamak Hall and pushed its compact fusion reactor to 75% built, a machine chasing more energy out of fusion than it puts in by 2027, twelve years before the cathedral-sized ITER in France
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Commonwealth Fusion Systems just craned the second half of a 48-ton steel donut into place, proving that…
The Poop Emoji Got Gravity Right, Physicists Find
The poop emoji accurately captures the typical poop shape in nature formed by the downward pull of gravity.…
IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times
Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers reported a quantum error-correction advance using directional tile codes, a new family of…
A Russian cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev has physically travelled further into the future than almost any other human being in history — across six spaceflights and 803 cumulative days at orbital velocity, Einstein’s theory of special relativity has made him approximately 0.02 seconds younger than other people his age
Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published in 1905, made a number of strange predictions about how time and…