Entanglement engineer: Paul Klimov in the lab The quantum entanglement of a large ensemble of spins in a semiconductor has been carried out at room temperature for the first time, b...
Forward and reverse magnetic pulses are applied to the sample, which drives the carbon nuclear spins out of equilibrium and produces irreversible entropy. Credit: Batalhão, et al. ©2...
Thanks to the latest work done by an international team of researchers, electrical discharges could be controlled and guided with lasers, along complex paths and even around obstacle...
LUX improvements, coupled to advanced computer simulations at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab) National Energy Research Scientif...
Credit: Chang-Fu Zhou Today’s sea turtles are the sole survivors of a once diverse ecosystem of marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs. However, the first vertebrate of the Jehol...
All of this magnetic and electric energy means that magnetic reconnection plays a huge role in shaping the environment wherever plasma exists – whether that’s on the sun, in interpla...
The 90 million-year-old skull is giving researchers vital clues about how snakes evolved. Comparisons between CT scans of the fossil and modern reptiles indicate that snakes lost the...
New analysis of the fossil record shows that placental mammals, the group that today includes nearly 5000 species including humans, became more varied in anatomy during the Paleocene...
Just under four months into the science phase of the mission, NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, is delivering promising early results on a process called magnetic reconnectio...
San Francisco, California Studies suggest that Earth’s magnetic field arose more than 4 billion years ago. Each relies on minerals crystallizing out of the molten Earth, a process t...
What’s more, our sleep tends to be more efficient, meaning we spend a smaller proportion of time in light stages of sleep, and more of our sleep time in deeper stages of sleep. But i...
A member of the Holometer collaboration works on the sensitive space-time measuring device, located at Fermilab in Illinois. A scientist works on the laser interferometer at the hear...
The team studied a rock formation known as the Chañares, which contains fossils of dinosaur ancestors. By dating the Chañares rocks precisely, the scientists hoped to better understa...
For the first time, astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This feat was achieved using the...
The Spanish interuniversity research group has obtained measurements for the innermost region of a disc of matter in orbital motion around a supermassive black hole tucked inside the...
Our model results show that during Pmax, higher DJF insolation causes higher temperatures over the Southern Hemisphere, especially over land (Fig. Our record of long-term climate var...
The Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year goes to Jian-Wei Pan and Chaoyang Lu of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, for being the first to achieve the...
The discovery reveals that the eye structure of these smaller mosasaurs was different from their larger cousins, whose eyes were on either side of their large heads, such as the eye ...
If the universe allows ‘open timelike curves’, particles travelling back in time along them could help to perform currently intractable computations. Even though such curves don’t al...
The LHC has been colliding protons at record high energy since the summer, but now the time has now come to collide large nuclei (nuclei of lead, Pb, consist of 208 neutrons and prot...
A new study by an team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich reaffirms that sponges are the oldest animal phylum - and restores the classical view of early animal evolut...
SEATTLE, WA, AUGUST 10, 2015 - The world’s population will increase from today’s 7.3 billion people to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion at century’s end, John R. Wilmoth, the dir...
After testing the setup on healthy participants, the team found the combination of exercise and artificial gravity could significantly lessen the effects of extended weightlessness i...
This article is published today in the new issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) jo...
UTA Physics professor Ali Koymen is co-principal investigator on the grant, which continues through 2016. In their preliminary experiments, the UTA scientists used the new positron b...