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Newswise: Magnifying Deep Space Through the “Carousel Lens”
Released: 18-Sep-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Magnifying Deep Space Through the “Carousel Lens”
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A newly discovered cluster-scale strong gravitational lens, with a rare alignment of seven background lensed galaxies, provides a unique opportunity to study cosmology.

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Newswise: Vishveshwara Seamlessly Weaves Science and Art Together
Released: 17-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Vishveshwara Seamlessly Weaves Science and Art Together
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Her father was a renowned physicist who studied black holes, and her mother is a prominent molecular biophysicist. You could say that physics is in her DNA. But physics isn’t the only thing in Illinois Grainger Engineering professor Smitha Vishveshwara’s blood; so are the arts.

Newswise: Beneath the Brushstrokes, van Gogh’s Sky is Alive with Real-World Physics
12-Sep-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Beneath the Brushstrokes, van Gogh’s Sky is Alive with Real-World Physics
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Van Gogh’s brushstrokes in “The Starry Night” create an illusion of sky movement so convincing it led researchers to wonder how closely it aligns with the physics of real skies. Marine sciences and fluid dynamics specialists analyzed the painting to uncover what they call the hidden turbulence in the artwork.

Newswise: New Results From the CMS Experiment Put W Boson Mass Mystery to Rest
Released: 17-Sep-2024 9:05 AM EDT
New Results From the CMS Experiment Put W Boson Mass Mystery to Rest
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that is notoriously difficult to study and has captivated the physics community for decades.

Newswise: Trailblazers in Plasma Turbulence Computer Simulations Win 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize
Released: 16-Sep-2024 3:45 PM EDT
Trailblazers in Plasma Turbulence Computer Simulations Win 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Greg Hammett and Bill Dorland have been awarded the 2024 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for their pioneering work on turbulence in plasma, a key challenge in the quest for fusion energy.

Released: 12-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Unraveling the mystery surrounding the creation of heavy elements in stars
Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists uncover new experimental data that will help them better understand how heavy elements are created in stars and the processes that shape the chemical makeup of the universe.

Newswise:Video Embedded physics-has-misled-neuroscience-for-over-two-decades
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Released: 12-Sep-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Physics has misled neuroscience for over two decades
Bar-Ilan University

How the brain works is a question that has intrigued scientists for centuries, raising multiple hypotheses and theories. In 1996, statistical physicists attempted to explain how the brain uses a combination of excitatory and inhibitory connections to reach a balanced network similarly to magnetic models.

   
Newswise: Loyd Earns DOE Early Career Research Award for Neutron Detector Proposal
Released: 11-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Loyd Earns DOE Early Career Research Award for Neutron Detector Proposal
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has selected Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Matthew Loyd for an Early Career Research Program award.Loyd, an R&D staff scientist in the Neutron Technologies Division, was selected by the Basic Energy Sciences program for his proposal, “Development of a Novel High-Count-Rate, High-Resolution Neutron Camera with Advanced Gamma Discrimination Capabilities.

Newswise: Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams
Released: 11-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Scientists have developed a blueprint for producing ultrabright and ultrashort pulses of electron beams for the next generation of particle accelerators, plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA). This could enable new scientific tools such as X-ray free-electron-lasers (XFELs) that can see matter at smaller scales and faster speeds than now possible.

Newswise: First Neutrinos Detected at Fermilab Short-Baseline Detector
10-Sep-2024 10:00 AM EDT
First Neutrinos Detected at Fermilab Short-Baseline Detector
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

After years of preparation, the first neutrinos have been observed by the Short-Baseline Near Detector collaboration. The data SBND collects will expand our knowledge of how neutrinos interact with matter and will be used to search for evidence of new physics.

10-Sep-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Scientists Turn On Powerful New Machine for Study of Fundamental Physics
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

After nearly a decade of preparation, scientists – including researchers from Rutgers University – have turned on a new apparatus capable of detecting a host of mysterious tiny particles. Researchers working on the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill., have started up the new machine and begun detecting the neutrinos produced by Fermilab’s particle accelerator beams.

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Released: 10-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $138 Million to 91 Early Career Scientists
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 91 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined $138 million in funding for research covering a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, fusion energy, and quantum.

Newswise: Adaptive-Optical 3D Microscopy For Microfluidic Multiphase Flows
Released: 10-Sep-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Adaptive-Optical 3D Microscopy For Microfluidic Multiphase Flows
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A real-time adaptive optics system was developed, characterised and applied to measure the 3D flow field through an oscillating surface of a water drop on an opaque Gas Diffusion Layer. A case study shows that the system corrects successfully measurement errors of the flow field that are caused by the refraction of light at the time-varying water-air interface.

Newswise: Verified superb condition of the KSTAR Superconducting Magnet
Released: 10-Sep-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Verified superb condition of the KSTAR Superconducting Magnet
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) announced that they have experimentally verified that KSTAR's superconducting magnets maintain maximum performance even after 16 years of continuous operation.

Newswise: Thin Film Ferroelectric Photonic-Electronic Memory
Released: 10-Sep-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Thin Film Ferroelectric Photonic-Electronic Memory
Chinese Academy of Sciences

An international team led by Professor Gong Xiao from the National University of Singapore has developed a groundbreaking non-volatile photonic-electronic memory chip, published in Light: Science & Applications.

Newswise: Laser-Sharp Look at Spinning Electrons Sets the Stage for New Physics Discoveries
Released: 9-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Laser-Sharp Look at Spinning Electrons Sets the Stage for New Physics Discoveries
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Spin is an intrinsic property of the electron. When electrons spin in the same direction at a given time, the quantity is called polarization. Understanding polarization helps examine the structure of nuclei of heavy elements. Now, nuclear physicists have measured the polarization of an electron beam more precisely than ever before.

Newswise: Neutral Atom Innovations by Quantum Systems Accelerator Mark Quantum Computing Milestones
Released: 5-Sep-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Neutral Atom Innovations by Quantum Systems Accelerator Mark Quantum Computing Milestones
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Novel research developments as a result of multi-institution collaboration at the Quantum Systems Accelerator


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