Japanese quantum physicist quits University of Tokyo for Hong Kong position with triple pay, 10x lab budget
He says a rival offer delivered roughly three times his Japanese pay and a research budget about 10…
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment
Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia V. Chekhovsky, A. Hayrapetyan, V. Makarenko, A. Tumasyan, O. Kodolova & A. Nikitenko Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria W.…
Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices
Jaksch, D., Briegel, H.-J., Cirac, J. I., Gardiner, C. W. & Zoller, P. Entanglement of atoms via cold…
Superconductivity and electronic structures of nickelate thin film superstructures
Sun, H. et al. Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure. Nature 621, 493–498…
High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD
At the fundamental level, the strong nuclear force between nucleons arises from quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a quantum field…
Scientists Just Solved Why 8,000 Giant Black Holes Across the Universe Have Suddenly Stopped Growing
The most massive black holes in the universe are no longer growing the way they once did. A…
Experiments Ring the ‘Death Knell’ for Sterile Neutrinos
Neutrinos have about as little influence as a particle can have. They have essentially no heft, no electric…
What Star Trek, space-time, and subatomic particles have in common : Short Wave : NPR
What do subatomic particles, black holes, and the Big Bang have in common? They’re all covered in Chanda…
SuperCDM Experiment Reaches Critical Temperature, Bringing it One Step Closer to Detecting Dark Matter
Scientists at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have reached a milestone with the Super…
Unprecedented Observation Reveals 2 Supermassive Black Holes Locked in a Tight Death Spiral
It’s no question that supermassive black holes are cosmic big boys, reaching millions to billions of times the…
Length-scale dependence of the anomalous atomic motion in metallic glasses
Stephenson, G. B., Robert, A. & Grübel, G. Revealing the atomic dance. Nat. Mater. 8, 702 (2009). Article …
Magnetic Levitation Using An Induction Cooktop
Adding another item on the list of things you probably shouldn’t be trying at home, we got [Brainiac75]…