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New NPL Neutron Facility Boosts UK’s Nuclear Energy, Defence and Fusion Research Capabilities

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has announced a new neutron measurement facility that will play a critical role in the safe and secure operation and continued development of the UK’s nuclear energy, defence and fusion research sectors.

18 Jan 2024

Observation of Low-Lying Isomeric States in Cesium-136

Large, low-background detectors with xenon as a target medium are commonly utilized in fundamental physics investigations, notably those looking for dark matter or examining rare decays of atomic nuclei.

17 Jan 2024

ML and Quantum Computing: Powerful Instruments for Fluid Dynamics

Engineers have long researched the flow of air across airfoils, such as airplane wings, to identify the angles at which flow separation occurs and prevent aircraft stalling.

17 Jan 2024

Scientists Capture Elusive Noble Gas Clumps at Room Temperature

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in the stabilisation and direct imaging of small clusters of noble gas atoms at room temperature.

16 Jan 2024

Researchers Manipulate Entangled Photons While Preserving Shared Properties

For the first time, researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory (School of Physics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, led by Professor Andrew Forbes, in collaboration with string theorist Robert de Mello Koch from Huzhou University in China (previously from Wits University), have demonstrated the remarkable ability to perturb pairs of spatially separated yet interconnected quantum entangled particles without altering their shared properties.

16 Jan 2024

ISS National Lab Selects Illinois Graduate Student as the 2023 James A. Abrahamson Space Leader Fellow

A college student pursuing a Ph.D. in physical sciences was selected as the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory’s 2023 James A. Abrahamson Space Leader Fellow.

16 Jan 2024

Novel Galactic ‘Fossil’: Revealing the Dynamics of Galaxy Evolution

Scientists studying at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have found X-Ray activity that provides insight into how galaxies evolve.

12 Jan 2024

Researchers Achieve Quantum Coherence at Room Temperature

Researchers observe the quantum coherence of a quintet state with four electron spins in molecular systems for the first time at room temperature.

12 Jan 2024

Unifying Quantum Paradox Through Contextuality

The quantum Cheshire cat effect draws its name from the fictional Cheshire Cat in the Alice in Wonderland story.

12 Jan 2024

Quantum Mechanics Demystifies Stock Market Swings

A new study published in Financial Innovation has developed a novel quantum model for stock market fluctuations that incorporates economic uncertainty and herding behavior.

12 Jan 2024

Generating Stable Qubits at Room Temperature

In a study published in Science Advances, a group of researchers led by Associate Professor Nobuhiro Yanai from Kyushu University's Faculty of Engineering, in collaboration with Associate Professor Kiyoshi Miyata from Kyushu University and Professor Yasuhiro Kobori of Kobe University, reports that they have achieved quantum coherence at room temperature: the ability of a quantum system to maintain a well-defined state over time without getting affected by surrounding disturbances.

12 Jan 2024