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Reconnection of Quantum Vortexes Launches Kelvin Waves

Draining the water from a bathtub causes a spinning tornado to appear. The downward flow of water into the drain causes the water to rotate, and as the rotation speeds up, a vortex forms that obeys the laws of classical mechanics. However, if the water is extremely cold liquid helium, the fluid will swirl around an invisible line to form a vortex that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.

25 Mar 2014

Bacterial Cells Coaxed to Produce Biofilms Incorporating Gold Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots

Inspired by natural materials such as bone — a matrix of minerals and other substances, including living cells — MIT engineers have coaxed bacterial cells to produce biofilms that can incorporate nonliving materials, such as gold nanoparticles and quantum dots.

25 Mar 2014

Physicists Separate Three Photons to Prove Theory of Quantum Nonlocality

In the world of quantum science, Alice and Bob have been talking to one another for years. Charlie joined the conversation a few years ago, but now with spacelike separation, scientists have measured that their communication occurs faster than the speed of light.

25 Mar 2014

Diamond Transport Spin Better Than Metals

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire.

25 Mar 2014

First Space Mission for Highest-Energy Particles

Every second, our bodies and the objects around us are struck by cosmic rays that come mostly from sources deep in space. The highest-energy cosmic rays are the most energetic particles in the universe—far more powerful than anything humans could produce— but their origins are a mystery.

24 Mar 2014

Critical Testing of Theories for Particles Smaller Than Higgs

Nobody has seen them yet; particles that are smaller than the Higgs particle. However theories predict their existence, and now the most important of these theories have been critically tested. The result: The existence of the yet unseen particles is now more likely than ever.

24 Mar 2014

Strain Can Help Control Topological Insulators

Research into a recently discovered class of materials shows they have the necessary characteristics to develop ultra-energy efficient electronics. Topological insulators (TI) are three-dimensional materials that conduct electricity on their surfaces, while the interior insulates.

24 Mar 2014

New Composite 360-Degree Portrait of Milky Way Galaxy

Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy's structure and contents.

24 Mar 2014

Joint Findings on Mass of Top Quark

Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both very powerful particle colliders on Earth. Scientists from the four experiments involved — ATLAS, CDF, CMS and DZero — announced their joint findings yesterday on the mass of the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, at the Rencontres de Moriond international physics conference in Italy.

24 Mar 2014

Graphene Plays a Key Role in Superconductivity

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered a potential way to make graphene – a single layer of carbon atoms with great promise for future electronics – superconducting, a state in which it would carry electricity with 100 percent efficiency.

24 Mar 2014

New Method to Tune Unique Properties of Topological Insulators

An international team of scientists investigating the electronic properties of ultra-thin films of new materials – topological insulators (TIs) - has demonstrated a new method to tune their unique properties using strain.

24 Mar 2014

Advances in Developing Room-Temperature Superconductors

A team of physicists from Perimeter Institute, the University of Waterloo, and Harvard has reached a key milestone toward next-generation superconductors.

24 Mar 2014

Spitzer Telescope Delivers Star-Studded Panorama of Galaxy

Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

24 Mar 2014

Structure of Highly Energized Dangerous Electrons Discovered in Earth's Inner Radiation Belt

An NJIT physicist is a collaborator in the discovery of a new structure in Earth's inner radiation belt -- a zebra-striped structure of highly energized electrons that could endanger humans in space and also damage low-earth navigation and communication satellites.

21 Mar 2014

SLAC and Stanford Scientists Contribute to Discovery of Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation

Two scientists at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory made key contributions to the discovery of the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation – the rapid expansion of the infant universe in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

21 Mar 2014

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Reconnection of Quantum Vortexes Launches Kelvin Waves

Bacterial Cells Coaxed to Produce Biofilms Incorporating Gold Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots

Physicists Separate Three Photons to Prove Theory of Quantum Nonlocality

Diamond Transport Spin Better Than Metals

First Space Mission for Highest-Energy Particles

Critical Testing of Theories for Particles Smaller Than Higgs

Strain Can Help Control Topological Insulators

New Composite 360-Degree Portrait of Milky Way Galaxy

Joint Findings on Mass of Top Quark

Graphene Plays a Key Role in Superconductivity

New Method to Tune Unique Properties of Topological Insulators

Advances in Developing Room-Temperature Superconductors

Spitzer Telescope Delivers Star-Studded Panorama of Galaxy

Structure of Highly Energized Dangerous Electrons Discovered in Earth's Inner Radiation Belt

SLAC and Stanford Scientists Contribute to Discovery of Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation

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