Ultra-Cold Gases Offer Window Into Extra Dimensions, According to New Theory

5 Aug 20174 Aug 2017

A nice but fatally flawed idea. By Michael Byrne | MOTHERBOARD A lot of the problems with string theory reduce to the fact that we don't really have a way…

Physicists Mold Giant Photons Into Custom Shapes

5 Dez 20164 Dez 2016

It's hard to imagine a photon having a shape at all. For one thing, photons—pointlike, indivisible units of light—are massless, which is the whole essence of being a photon to…

Decades-Old Collision Data Offers Tantalizing Hint of New Particle

23 Okt 201622 Okt 2016

The Large Hadron Collider, now operating at near-peak luminosity in its second operational phase, may be the most powerful particle collider ever built and it may smash together billions of…

For the First Time, Researchers Bridge Quantum Computers on a Single Chip

16 Okt 201615 Okt 2016

Despite the rapid emergence of mobile devices and cloud computing, it's still intuitive to think of computers as relatively self-contained systems. And, as self-contained systems, they can be relied on…

Coming Soon: A New Telescope Array Hunting for Extragalactic Gamma Rays

23 Sep 201622 Sep 2016

On Monday, the Council of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory signed a deal with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias to place 19 telescopes on the island of La Palma…

Supermaterials Offer New Means of Searching for Superlight Dark Matter

20 Sep 201619 Sep 2016

No one said detecting dark matter would be easy. We didn't even know about the stuff until a couple of decades ago, after all, despite the fact that it represents…

Is the Higgs Boson Acting Weird Again at the LHC?

10 Sep 20169 Sep 2016

Though no one could really say what it was specifically, the Large Hadron Collider's 750 GeV diphoton bump registered at least one unambiguous conclusion for physicists: they'd found something new.…

Key Dark Matter Detection Experiment Again Comes Up Empty-Handed

24 Jul 201623 Jul 2016

After 20-month search period, a key dark matter detection experiment has officially come up empty-handed, casting doubt on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), which have been far…

Could Dark Energy Just Be Frozen Neutrinos?

17 Jul 201616 Jul 2016

Dark energy is arguably the best mystery in astrophysics. Here we have an uneasy placeholder for almost all of the energy in the universe—energy that, as you read this, is…

How Physicists Image Individual Atoms

3 Apr 20162 Apr 2016

  Until 1981, the atom was a sort of imaginary entity. We knew it was there, of course, and we could even measure and observe it via a number of…

Quantum Physics‘ Wave-Particle Duality Enigma Bleeds Into the Classical World

31 Mai 201530 Mai 2015

A group of Australian physicists has demonstrated for the first time that even atoms, relatively massive particles hundreds of million times larger than electrons (allowing for electrons to take up…