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Physicists might have just discovered ‘glueballs’: the particles made entirely of force
MSN News· 1 day agoThe Standard Model of particle physics is the cornerstone theory that elegantly encapsulates our...
A Metal Block and a Beam Could Finally Unveil the Universe’s Hidden Particles
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 2 days agoOnce it hits a fixed target (aka a large metal block), the resulting crash will produce a variety of...
Meet HELIX, the High-Altitude Balloon That May Solve a Deep Cosmic Mystery
Scientific American· 2 days agoLed by Scott Wakely, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, HELIX is designed to study...
'Mathematical microscope' reveals novel, energy-efficient mechanism of working memory that works...
Medical Xpress· 17 hours agoUCLA Health researchers have discovered a mechanism that creates memories while reducing metabolic...
Where Is the Edge of the Solar System?
Scientific American· 6 days agoTake, for example, the solar system. If you picture it in your head, you likely see the sun in the center and a retinue of planets orbiting it. At some...
Kalama senior has nearly double the credits needed to graduate
The Daily News· 3 days agoWhen Kalama High School senior Tony Peonio visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a...
Pritzker eyes a $20 billion quantum-computing campus
Crain s Chicago Business· 3 days agoPritzker’s team sees it as a modern-day Manhattan Project that will usher in the next frontier of technology: applying the principles of quantum mechanics to computing. Harnessing subatomic ...
Physicists pioneer new quantum sensing platform
Phys.org· 6 days agoQuantum sensors detect the smallest of environmental changes—for example, an atom reacting to a magnetic field. As these sensors "read" the unique behaviors of subatomic & ...