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New Project Seeks to Rapidly Generate Muons Using High-Power Lasers

Today we can see inside seemingly impossible places-;nuclear reactors, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza-;thanks to muon imaging.

30 Oct 2023

Rocket to Probe Birth of Star Systems from Explosive Supernovae

A new mission involving a sounding rocket is on its way to space, aiming to unravel the mechanisms by which dramatic stellar explosions pave the path for the formation of nascent star systems.

30 Oct 2023

Penetrating Further into the Mysteries of Dark Matter

An invisible form of matter lurks in the deep dark cosmos. It is never been directly witnessed, yet it is evident in the rippling ebb and flow of galaxies.

27 Oct 2023

Applying Quasiparticles to Create Super-Bright Light Sources

Quasiparticles’ allegedly physics-defying characteristics could be used in non-destructive imaging and computer chip production, among other uses.

20 Oct 2023

The Existence of Black Holes in Perfectly Balanced Pairs

Black holes could exist in perfectly balanced pairs that are kept in equilibrium by a cosmic force, resembling a single black hole, according to a study from the Universities of Southampton, Cambridge, and Barcelona.

20 Oct 2023

New Method Opens New Avenues for Future Polariton-Based Integrated Devices

Exciton polaritons constitute a unique prototype for studying many-body physics and quantum photonic phenomena traditionally in cryogenic conditions.

20 Oct 2023

Fast Radio Bursts can be Used to Measure Missing Matter Between Galaxies

In a paper published today in Science, a global team led by Macquarie University's Dr Stuart Ryder and Swinburne University of Technology's Associate Professor Ryan Shannon, report on their discovery of the most ancient and distant fast radio burst located to date, about eight billion years old.

20 Oct 2023

Optically Synthesized Magnetic Fields Enable Spin-Orbit-Coupled Rabi Oscillation

The Rabi oscillation has been proven to be one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics, triggering substantial investigations in different disciplines including atomic and molecular physics, acoustics, and optics.

20 Oct 2023

PASQAL Announces Partnership to Develop the Foundations of a Photonic Quantum Processor Powered by Neutral Atom Technology

PASQAL today announced a collaboration with Sorbonne Université, The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), and Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée (IOTA), to building the essential foundations for a photonic quantum computer powered by neutral atom technology.

18 Oct 2023

A Dying Massive Star’s Violent Material Ejection Process

By studying the once-in-a-decade supernova SN 2023ixf, a research team led by Dr. Jujia Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Xiaofeng Wang of Tsinghua University discovered the stellar mass forcibly expelled from the progenitor near the conclusion of its existence.

17 Oct 2023