CERN Deploys Cutting-Edge AI in “Impossible” Hunt for Higgs Decay
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS…
DESI Hints Dark Energy Isn’t What We Thought
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope…
Wooden walls can withstand 100 kilonewtons of pressure, research finds
Swiss researchers have overturned the assumption that windowed timber walls offer no structural support after they proved that…
Physicists Measured The Pulse of an Atom’s Magnetic Heart in Real Time : ScienceAlert
The pulse of an atom’s magnetic heart as it ticks back and forth between quantum states has been…
Scientists Finally Crack Why Ice Is Really Slippery—Upending a 200-Year-Old Physics Explanation
For nearly two centuries, students have been taught that ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts a…
Unique molecule may lead to smaller, more efficient computers
Today, most of us carry a fairly powerful computer in our hand—a smartphone. But computers weren’t always so…
New York’s ‘Big Bang Machine’ Passes Critical First Test
We know very little about the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. We have theories, most of…
‘We want more people to know about our priceless Albert Einstein blackboard’
Malia CartyBBC News, Nottingham BBC The blackboard used by Albert Einstein is the only one believed to be…
Scientists Watch an Atom’s Nucleus Flip in Real Time for the First Time
Artist’s impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
Can Ice Really Generate Power? Scientists Say Yes
We all know ice is cold, slippery, and great in lemonade. But here’s a twist: it’s also full…
Graphene Electrons Violate Fundamental Law of Physics
Scientists have detected a “Dirac fluid” in graphene, where electrons flow like a nearly perfect liquid and defy…
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization
Experimental set-up The key components of our experimental set-up are shown in Fig. 1a and Extended Data Fig.…