All the matter you’ve ever interacted with has mass, and as such it obeys the standard laws of motion as enunciated by Newton centuries ago. If you push something, it moves in the direction you push it. However, matter with negative mass would do the opposite. It sounds like wacky …
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What do supernovas and fluffy white clouds have in common? That’s not a riddle, it’s a question several groups of scientists are seeking to answer. A dying star releases vast amounts of energy, some of it in the form of cosmic rays. We know these high-energy particles occasionally slam into …
Read More »Researchers Create World’s Coldest Chip
University of Basel’s Professor Dominik Zumbühl and colleagues have succeeded in magnetically cooling a nanoelectronic device to a temperature of 2.8 mK (millikelvin). A chip with a Coulomb blockade thermometer on it is prepared for experiments at extremely low temperatures. Image credit: University of Basel. “Magnetic cooling is based on …
Read More »Physicists Prove Existence of New Form of Matter: Excitonium
New research led by a University of Illinois physicist has proved the existence of a new form of matter — ‘excitonium,’ a solid crystal of excitons. The research, led by Professor Peter Abbamonte, is published in the December 8 issue of the journal Science. Artist’s depiction of the collective excitons …
Read More »Running roaches, flapping moths create a brand-new physics of organisms
Sand-swimming lizards, slithering robotic snakes, dusk-flying moths and running roaches all have something in typical: They’re significantly being studied by physicists interested in comprehending the shared strategies these creatures have developed to overcome the obstacles of moving though their environments. Read More
Read More »This whimsical physics video game is really about our garbage lives online
Let’s all simply come out and confess: We’re trash people.Not in the wicked sense, naturally. Those of us who take part in the virtual, vacuous hole known as the web can all concur we’re part of the garbage dump. It’s difficult to not end up being garbage, in some …
Read More »Castle-crushing physics sandbox Besiege includes full multiplayer plus level creation & sharing
quite as strongly in the 3rd quarter as we had initially reported, but the current major update- potentiallythe most important one yet – to middle ages machinery sandbox Besiege has formally launched.The Multiverse upgrade, as they’re calling it, brings two massive features to the already-impressive building game; The very …
Read More »Physics Breakthrough: New Type of Matter, Excitonium, Finally Shown to Exist After 50-Year Browse
After 50 years of theories and prevented attempts, researchers have actually lastly proved the existence of a new kind of matter. The never-before-detected condensate is called excitonium, a name very first created in the 1960s by Harvard theoretical physicist Bert Halperin. Halperin is now 76. Peter Abbamonte, the physicist responsible …
Read More »Researchers Develop Switchable Photovoltaic Window
A team of researchers at the U.S. DoE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has developed a thermochromic window capable of converting sunlight into electricity at a high efficiency. Dr. Wheeler (front) developed a switchable photovoltaic window along with (from left) Nathan Neale, Robert Tenent, Jeffrey Blackburn, Elisa Miller, and David Moore. …
Read More »HPE, Stephen Hawking’s COSMOS to Investigate the Early Universe
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a new collaborative effort with the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. The new effort, which leverages HP’s Superdome Flex servers, is a step forward for the COSMOS project, which has existed in one form or another since 1997. Back then, SGI and Intel were …
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