Physics for students: from school to research
Everything filed under learning in our physics coverage, the 50 reports filed on it so far.
Scientific Publishers Combat Fraudulent Papermills
Publishers are deploying new integrity teams and AI tools to fight the surge in fraudulent papers from commercial papermills, a problem accelerated by
CMS Search for New Physics in Four-Jet Events with Bottom
The CMS collaboration reports a search for new particles decaying into pairs of jets containing bottom quarks, using 13 TeV proton-proton collision...
NIST's Decade-Long Gravitational Constant Experiment Deepens
A ten-year NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the gravitational constant, big G, that differs from a leading 2007 result, maintaining a
Microbes Could Survive at Lunar South Pole for Days
NASA and University of Maryland researchers found bacteria and fungi from human skin could survive in shadowed lunar polar niches for up to seven days
CosmicWatch: A $100 Muon Detector Opens Particle Physics
A compact, $100 detector called CosmicWatch, developed at the University of Delaware, allows students and researchers to detect invisible cosmic...
Self-Supervised Learning Sharpens Resonance Mass
A new self-supervised learning method improves the reconstruction of heavy resonance masses in particle physics experiments, showing sharper peaks and
Spinon to Triplon Transition Observed in Frustrated Quantum
Neutron spectroscopy reveals a quasiparticle energy crossover from deconfined spinons to bound triplons in the spin-Peierls material CuGeO3, driven by
Quantum computer simulates particle creation in 1D Ising
Researchers have used a 104-qubit quantum processor to simulate the inelastic production of a heavier particle from a collision of two light...
Quantum Sensors Sharpen Nuclear Material Assessments
NIST researchers have used ultra-cold transition edge sensors to measure X-ray emissions from nuclear materials with unprecedented accuracy, reducing
Ultra-High-Energy Photon Defies Physics to Reach Earth
A 300 TeV photon from a distant gamma-ray burst survived a 2-billion-light-year journey that should have destroyed it, challenging Einstein's...
Building Reproducibility into Moiré Material Research
A Nature Physics perspective argues that reproducibility challenges in moiré material experiments must be addressed from the outset in material...
Quantum computers could hunt dark matter at LHC
A particle physicist is developing quantum algorithms to search for anomalies in data from the upgraded Large Hadron Collider, aiming to find signs...
Study reveals hidden slow creep stage before explosive
A new study from Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows cracks begin as tiny 2D patches that creep slowly before a geometric transition triggers...
CMS Uses Neural Flow to Spot Anomalous Dijet Events
Researchers applied an unsupervised neural spline flow model to CMS Open Data, identifying dijet events with low likelihood scores that deviate from
UrQMD Model Reveals Neutron Origin of Stopped Protons
A microscopic transport model study shows a significant fraction of protons stopped at mid-rapidity in low-energy heavy-ion collisions originate from
New Experiment Sets Limits on Axion-like Dark Matter
A physics experiment using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and a SQUID magnetometer has searched for ultralight axion-like dark matter...
Mathematical framework slashes magnetic
A new optimal control theory framework from the University of Edinburgh designs magnetic pulses to switch digital bits, potentially cutting energy...
Belle II could probe new physics via
A new study proposes using the Belle II experiment to search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons, predicted by extensions of the Standard Model, by
CMS observes spin-dependent asymmetry in heavy-ion
The CMS collaboration reports a significant negative azimuthal asymmetry in muons from coherently photoproduced J/ψ mesons in lead-lead collisions at...
Temperature Weakens Spin-Orbit Coupling in Topological
A study finds increasing temperature weakens spin-orbit coupling in materials like Bi2Se3, driving a transition from a topological insulator to a...
Platinum Channels Scale Spin-Based Thermoelectric Effect
A research team has embedded nanoscale platinum channels within a magnetic insulator to achieve spin-based thermoelectric conversion in a bulk...
Physicists film exciton formation in organic
A research team has captured the first ultrafast video of an exciton forming and shrinking within 400 femtoseconds after light hits an organic
Magic-angle graphene superconductivity
Researchers from the University of Manchester have completely suppressed superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by screening electron-electron
AI proposes physics experiments that beat
An international team shows artificial intelligence can design physics experiments using existing lab components that yield more precise results than