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Scientists separate a particle from its properties

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have performed the first separation of a particle from one of its properties. The study, carried out at the...

The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Scientists separate a particle from its properties

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Can a particle be separated from its properties? On July 29, the prestigious journal, Nature Communications, published the results of ...

NASA-funded X-ray Instrument Settles Interstellar Debate

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

New findings from a NASA-funded instrument have resolved a decades-old puzzle about a fog of low-energy X-rays observed over the entire sky. Thanks to refurbish...

Measuring the Smallest Magnets

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

Imagine trying to measure a tennis ball that bounces wildly, every time to a distance a million times its own size. The bouncing obviously creates enormous "bac...

Mysterious black holes may be exploding into 'white holes'

Jul 29, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

A new scientific theory suggests that when black holes reach the end of their lifespan, they explode into "white holes" and release all of their matter into spa...

Timely arrival of Pharao space clock

Jul 29, 2014 (ESA)

ESA has welcomed the arrival of Pharao, an important part of ESA's atomic clock experiment that will be attached to the International Space Station in 2016. Del...

Refrigerator magnets

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

The magnets cluttering the face of your refrigerator may one day be used as cooling agents, according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory ...

Boosting the Force of Empty Space

Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)

Vacuum fluctuations may be among the most counter-intuitive phenomena of quantum physics. Theorists from the Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel) and the Vienna...

Scientists Find Way to Maintain Quantum Entanglement in Amplified Signals

Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)

Physicists Sergei Filippov (MIPT and Russian Quantum Center at Skolkovo) and Mario Ziman (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and the Institute of Physi...

Is The Universe A Bubble? Let's Check

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

Never mind the big bang; in the beginning was the vacuum. The vacuum simmered with energy (variously called dark energy, vacuum energy, the inflation field, or ...

Highly charged ions

Jul 22, 2014 (SPX)

The world is mostly neutral. That is, most of the atoms in our environment are electrically neutral. The number of electrons in the outer parts of atoms equals ...

Now can we test for Multiple universes

Jul 22, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

The question of the size and limits of our universe can fry our mind without reading into it. Still more amazing, some among us always believed that we live in ...

It's go time for LUX-Zeplin dark matter experiment

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

From the physics labs at Yale University to the bottom of a played-out gold mine in South Dakota, a new generation of dark matter experiments is ready to commen...

Out of An Hours-long Explosion, A Stand-In For The First Stars

Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)

Astronomers analyzing a long-lasting blast of high-energy light observed in 2013 report finding features strikingly similar to those expected from an explosion ...

Ferromagnetism at 230 K found in diluted magnetic semiconductor

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

Diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have received much attention due to their potential application in spintronics, or the storage and transfer of information...

Supermassive black hole blows molecular gas out of galaxy

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

New research by academics at the University of Sheffield has solved a long-standing mystery surrounding the evolution of galaxies, deepening our understanding o...

The quantum dance of oxygen

Jul 08, 2014 (SPX)

Perhaps not everyone knows that oxygen has - quite unusually for such a simple molecule - magnetic properties. The phase diagram of solid oxygen at low temperat...

Ultra-cold atom transport made simple

Jul 08, 2014 (SPX)

New study provides proof of the validity of a filtering device for ultra-cold neutral atoms based on tunnelling. Techniques for controlling ultra-cold atoms tra...

'Deep learning' makes search for exotic particles easier

Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)

Fully automated "deep learning" by computers greatly improves the odds of discovering particles such as the Higgs boson, beating even veteran physicists' abilit...

Researchers Detect Smallest Force Ever Measured

Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)

What is believed to be the smallest force ever measured has been detected by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the U...