Physics

Lasers Used to Create Negative Mass Particles

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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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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