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German scientists at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have demonstrated for the first time ever that the spin pumping effect affecting magnetic layers can exist in reality. The concept was thus far only a theoretical construct, but the team's experiments proved that it actually exists.
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12 September 2011
08:24 GMT |
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) say that the largest particle accelerator in the world was recently able to obtain temperatures that make the Sun look frigid. By colliding heavy lead ions head-on inside its detectors, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to achieve temperatures ... |
16 June 2011
05:06 GMT |
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For the first time ever, researchers finally established the question of whether electrons are perfectly spherical or not. It would appear that, just like everything else in nature, the elementary particles are not perfect spheres, but rather extremely close to it. According to the researchers who conducted the new w... |
26 May 2011
10:55 GMT |
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Officials with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announce that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator – has broken new records on Monday. On May 23, the instrument collided more protons than any other accelerator. Over the past... |
24 May 2011
07:37 GMT |
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Investigators have recently taken a closer look at a background layer of subatomic particles, that was found some time ago to permeate the entire Universe. Similar to the cosmic microwave background (CMB), this collection of particles was also produced in the earliest moments of the Cosmos. This subatomic signature s... |
29 March 2011
08:59 GMT |
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According to the latest readings collected by the most sensitive detector of its type ever constructed, Earth does not feature a nuclear reactor at its core. The issue as to whether it did or not was heatedly debated by geologists and geophysicists, but for now their disagreements have been settled.In the new investi... |
14 February 2011
03:40 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts propose that we attempt to use neutrinos in our quests to establish contact with potential extraterrestrial civilizations that may exist elsewhere in the Universe. Until now, all messages that we sent into space were delivered via radio waves. We were accustomed to using this type o... |
11 January 2011
09:24 GMT |
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A newly-signed contract designated experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) as the main operators of an impressive neutrino telescope, which is buried deep underneath Antarctic ices, near the South Pole. The group will be managing the impressive IceCube Neutrino Observatory (INO) under a $34.5 million con... |
23 November 2010
04:30 GMT |
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For more than 20 years, a “rogue” theory in particle physics had it that a new type of elementary particle existed in the Standard Model, the current approach to explaining the basic particles around us. But, after all these years, it would now appear that evidence to confirm the existence of this particl... |
2 November 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Before the Copenhagen interpretation for quantum physics was established as the main theoretical foundation for this field of research, numerous theories were proposed to explain behavior at the quantum scale. Now, fluid dynamics experiments revive on of those idea. In a series of experiments, researchers at the Univ... |
20 October 2010
09:45 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Dartmouth College announces the discovery of an instance when processes going on at the quantum level take preeminence over those happening at the macroscale. While this has been noticed in other studies to take place under very specific conditions, the event is still extremely rare.... |
1 July 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Studying the way in which electrons arrange and interact with each other is an on-going field of research in physics and chemistry. Experts say that knowing more about this could lead to them solving a host of long-standing mysteries in physics. Bringing this objective a little closer were researchers at the US Depar... |
3 June 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Though solar panel technology has come a long way over the past few years, it is still plagued by low conversion rates. This means that only a small portion of the sunlight that hits the panels actually gets converted to electricity. In a bid to increase efficiency rates, researchers turned to nature, and looked at h... |
11 May 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Researchers at the University College London (UCL), in the United Kingdom, recently managed to observe the energetic particles that form the brightest auroras. This is the first time such a feat was accomplished, and the team behind the research says that their accomplishment was made possible through the use of the ... |
12 April 2010
05:33 GMT |
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As soon as physicists announced that they would open the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), critics jumped up saying that the machine will become capable of producing small black holes that could endanger our planet and civilization. While physicists have shown these rumors to be a complete fabrication, especially as far a... |
29 March 2010
08:55 GMT |
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A collaboration of US scientists, featuring experts from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), and the University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy, will construct this year a new, experimental matter detector. Aimed directly at unraveling the mysteries ... |
11 January 2010
01:45 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undoubtedly the most ambitious science project ever undertaken by people. Its purpose is to look directly at the conditions that led to the formation of everything around us, and provide a firm confirmation for the Standard Model as well. But, other than the unfounded talk of black ... |
12 November 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Scientists at the Delft University of Technology Kavli Institute for Nanosciences, in the Netherlands, have recently managed to gain new control over the environment of quantum particles, which may make it possible to finally construct a working quantum computer. The new finds essentially allow researchers to exercis... |
9 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Since computers first appeared, they have been expanding their performances at a very fast rate, each new generation exceeding the previous by a mile, in terms of what it can do. Some 40 years ago, Intel Co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on microchips would double every two years, as th... |
10 October 2009
03:03 GMT |
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In various new-age astronomy theories, dark matter and dark energy play central roles. In spite of the fact that even newer models have demonstrated that some yet-unexplained phenomena do not require the introduction of these elements in the equation, some scientists continue to push on for the creation of instrument... |
3 September 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was under construction, the Batavia, Illinois-based Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) began to work extra-hard on finding the elusive Higgs Boson. This elementary particle would complete and firmly prove the Standard Model in physics, which now features two cl... |
31 August 2009
05:27 GMT |
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While the Big Bang theory is still the most agreed-upon idea on how the Universe formed, the final faith of the Cosmos is still a subject of hot debate among astronomers and physicists. While some say that it will expand to a point where it will become a dark, empty void, others claim that it will eventually contract... |
17 August 2009
03:29 GMT |
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We live in a highly dynamic universe, no surprise here because, if it wasn't, we probably wouldn't be here at all. However, what is weird is that while at large scale things appear pretty natural to us, at a quantum level interactions between particles look more like stories taken out of a science fiction b... |
17 March 2008
07:10 GMT |
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One of the most intriguing physical puzzles related to quantum physics and particle physics is a property of the protons, which all elementary particles share, called spin. The spin number, or quantum momentum, represents the particle's rotation around its own axis, but unlike the gyroscopic instruments and spin... |
18 December 2007
03:46 GMT |
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The universe we live in has a minimum energy level where it is void; however, as we now know the universe is not static but rather dynamic, contracting and expanding, which in turn determines a distortion of the void that becomes no longer empty, thus particles being created. This is called a quantum effect in cosmol... |
4 December 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Last year, an Italian collaboration sparked the interest of physicists all around the world when they announced that they have observed the conversion of a photon particle, into a predicted axion particle, thus discovering the first particle outside the Standard Model and the first observation of dark matter. A team ... |
20 November 2007
10:40 GMT |
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The forces that keep the protons and neutrons together in the nuclei are called strong nuclear forces and they are actually the strongest forces known. They act on small distances and are caused by a type of boson particles, of the hadron family also known as mesons. Mesons are composed of certain combinations of qua... |
17 November 2007
05:13 GMT |
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Although the observable Universe is mostly void, despite the general belief most of that void is filled with either energy or matter, except for certain strange structures called textures which seem to be having none of the two. High or low energy elementary particles are emitted in all directions by galaxies, quasar... |
9 November 2007
02:49 GMT |
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