News articles tagged with 'particle'
Scientists create light from vacuum
— 18 Nov 2011 17:04 | PhysicsScientists at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in creating light from vacuum - observing an effect first predicted over 40 years ago. The results were published in the…
Researchers link herpes to Alzheimer's disease
— 4 Apr 2011 18:54 | HealthLaboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute (HEI) have developed a new technique to observe herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) infections…
Calculations with 14 quantum bits
— 2 Apr 2011 11:01 | PhysicsThe term entanglement was introduced by the Austrian Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger in 1935, and it describes a quantum mechanical phenomenon that while it can clearly be demonstrated…
Charge it: Neutral atoms made to act like electrically charged particles
— 1 Apr 2011 15:18 | TechnologyCompleting the story they started by creating synthetic magnetic fields, scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and…
SU physicists first to observe rare particles produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
— 29 Mar 2011 16:40 | PhysicsShortly after experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland began yielding scientific data last fall, a group of scientists led by a…
Integral spots matter a millisecond from doom
— 28 Mar 2011 18:07 | AstronomyESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory has spotted extremely hot matter just a millisecond before it plunges into the oblivion of a black hole. But is it really doomed? These unique observations…
An icy gaze into the Big Bang
— 19 Mar 2011 14:29 | PhysicsScientists of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck, Austria, have reached a milestone in the exploration of quantum gas mixtures. In an international…
Is space like a chessboard?
— 19 Mar 2011 14:14 | PhysicsPhysicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space…
Transmissible treatment proposed for HIV could target superspreaders to curb epidemic
— 18 Mar 2011 14:34 | HealthBiochemist Leor Weinberger and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego and UCLA have proposed a fundamentally new intervention for the HIV/AIDS epidemic based on engineered,…
Berkeley Lab scientists control light scattering in graphene
— 17 Mar 2011 20:09 | TechnologyScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have learned to control the quantum pathways…