Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers discover a new approach for capturing energy from light-generated, 'hot' electrons, avoiding wasteful heat lossCredit: ...
Tag: Particle Physics
Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science
Kwiat group achieves most efficient single-photon production everCredit: Siv Schwink/University of Illinois Department of Physics Over the last two decades, ...
More energy means more effects — in proton collisions
Credit: IFJ PAN, P. Kotko The higher the collision energy of particles, the more interesting the physics. Scientists from the ...
Three gravitational-wave detectors sign agreement to begin joint observation
Collaboration will enable pinpointing origin of gravitational-wave eventsCredit: ICRR The world's three principal gravitational-wave detectors -- LIGO in the U.S., ...
New ‘fuzzy’ dark matter research disrupts conventional thinking
'Fuzzy' dark matter theory simulated fully for the first timeCredit: Universities of Princeton, Sussex, Cambridge New research conducted at the ...
Department of Energy announces $21.4 million for quantum information science research
Projects linked to both particle physics and fusion energyCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory WASHINGTON, D.C.--Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...
CCNY physicists score double hit in LED research
Credit: Image credit: Visakh Menon In two breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, City College of New York graduate researchers ...
US ATLAS phase I upgrade completed
Major upgrades to the ATLAS experiment at CERN will give unprecedented insight into open physics questionsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory The ...
Researchers home in on extremely rare nuclear process
The complete data from the EXO-200 experiment provide new information on neutrinoless double beta decay and set the stage for ...
Bridge between quantum mechanics and general relativity still possible
Credit: provided by University of Science and Technology of China Quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity form the ...
NTU Singapore scientists develop technique to observe radiation damage over femtoseconds
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a technique to observe how radiation damages ...
Shedding light on dark matter
UD computer scientist co-leads $1 million project to identify and localize dark-matter particlesCredit: Photo courtesy the XENON collaboration Dark matter ...
New hunt for dark matter
Physicists theorize a novel way to explore the nature of dark matter with lasersCredit: © 2019 University of Tokyo Institute ...
KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half
Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the ...
Volker Burkert named Virginia Outstanding Scientist
Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab For more than 30 years, Volker Burkert has made his home in the Commonwealth of Virginia ...
Physicist Rajesh Maingi heads nationwide liquid metal strategy program for fusion devices
Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Rajesh Maingi, a world-renowned expert on the physics of plasma, has been named to ...
UTA physicist studying how extreme weather in space affects satellites
Solar windCredit: UT Arlington A physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing a new scale to measure ...
Heat flow through single molecules detected
Credit: OIST After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of ...
A graphene superconductor that plays more than one tune
Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a tiny toolkit for scientists to study exotic quantum physicsCredit: Guorui Chen et al./Berkeley ...
Upgrade of the IceCube neutrino telescope
First enhancement of the particle detector at the South Pole is primarily aimed at investigating neutrino oscillationCredit: photo/©: Benjamin Eberhardt, ...
