Producing electricity from heavy-ion fusion has been a goal in the international physics community for years. A new facility built in the United States could finally help investigators achieve this goal, by providing more d... [read more >>] Electrons, for a long time thought to be elementary particles, can be split into two separate parts, an international team of experts demonstrated in a new study. Each of the two resulting particles carries one of the two m... [read more >>] In a paper published in the April 13 issue of the esteemed journal Physical Review Letters, scientists at the Nara Medical University, in Japan, led by expert Shigeyoshi Osaki, explain how they created a series of violin st... [read more >>] Physicists from the University of Vienna in Austria announce the completion of the largest iteration of the famous double-slit experiment (DSE). They managed to use very massive molecules, containing either 58 or 114 atoms,... [read more >>] Experts with the ALPHA Collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have successfully analyzed the internal structure of an anti-atom for the first time ever. Their study could open up entirely new... [read more >>] A collaboration of physicists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Batavia, Illinois, say that they have recently managed to establish the energy range of a subato... [read more >>] In late 2011, the world of particle physics was taken by storm by the results of a research team based in Italy, which announced that it had discovered faster-than-light neutrinos. A recent investigation has finally reveale... [read more >>] A group of experts in Australia and the United States have built the world's smallest possible transistor. The device is basically a single-atom. The achievement proves that Moore's Law of miniaturization can be b... [read more >>] Investigators at the University of York Department of Physics led an international collaboration of researchers who recently announced the development of an improved method for magnetic recording. The achievement could be u... [read more >>] The most powerful X-ray laser in the world recently managed to set a new record, when it heated a piece of target material to 2 million degrees. The achievement is reported in the January 25 issue of the top scientific jour... [read more >>] |