Physics

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 …

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 …

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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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 …

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. …

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 …

In a paper published in the journal Science, a team of physicists from Japan and Germany reports the most precise measurement ever made of the magnetic moment of the proton, allowing a fundamental comparison between matter and antimatter. The new result improves by a factor 11 the precision of the …