Physics

According to a team of physicists at Imperial College London (ICL), UK, it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both. Artistic image of light trapped on the surface of a topological insulator. Image credit: Vincenzo Giannini. …

A physicist at Griffith University in Australia has solved an anomaly of conventional physics and shown that a mysterious effect called ‘T violation’ could be the origin of time evolution and conservation laws. Dr. Vaccaro is challenging the conventional view of space and time to show how the world advances …

Recent findings by a team of experimental nuclear physicists in Hungary indicating the possible discovery of a new subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth force of nature, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine. The discovery of a possible fifth force of …

An international team of physicists, led by the University of the Witwatersrand (UW) in Johannesburg, South Africa, predicts the existence of a new particle that might aid in the understanding of dark matter. Proton-proton collisions events in which two high energy electrons and two high energy muons are observed. Image …

For the first time, physicists have discovered that in an extremely high magnetic field ‘massless’ Dirac electrons can acquire a mass. A false-color high-resolution transmission electron microscopy image of the zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe5) with an inset selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern, showing the layer normal along the b axis. …

Plutonium, a heavy, silvery metal with 15 isotopes that is produced by the neutron irradiation of natural uranium, is formidably complex element that does not always act as expected. New research published in the journal Physical Review B shows that plutonium does not share electrons when it bonds with fluorine …

A team of physicists from the University of Birmingham and the University of Bath has identified a method to visualize, over a millionth of a billionth of a second, the initial quantum behavior of electrons on a surface. The scanning tunneling microscope used to inject electrons into a silicon surface. …

The Universe is not spinning or stretched in any particular direction, according to a team of researchers from University College London and Imperial College London, UK. A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies, seemingly caught in a red and blue spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies, makes for a spellbinding …

An Iowa State University-led team of physicists has demonstrated the quasi-stable existence of a tetraneutron, a subatomic structure once thought unlikely to exist. Tetra-neutron system produced in double-charge exchange reaction 4He(8He,8Be). Image credit: Susumu Shimoura / University of Tokyo. On their own, neutrons are very unstable and will convert into …

A team of researchers at the University of Virginia has devised a new imaging approach that combines powerful aspects of both magnetic resonance imaging and gamma-ray imaging. Prof. Gordon Cates and Dr. Wilson Miller with the unique imaging apparatus the team built in their lab. Image credit: Dan Addison / …