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Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 135 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...


AMANDA's First Six Years

AMANDA's First Six Years

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (55) | comments 4 feature

The most recent results from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array, or AMANDA, located a mile under the ice at the South Pole, have yielded the most stringent prediction yet for the highest possible ...


Super-Kamiokande Finds Structure in the Cosmic Ray Sky

Super-Kamiokande Finds Structure in the Cosmic Ray Sky

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 0 feature

Cosmic rays, which are high-energy atomic nuclei driven by spectacular cosmic events, come to us from every direction on the sky. Most of them are destroyed high in the atmosphere, creating a shower of high-speed ...


Theorists reveal path to true muonium

Theorists Reveal Path to True Muonium

Physics / General Physics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- True muonium, a long-theorized but never-seen atom, might be observed in future experiments, thanks to recent theoretical work by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator ...


Cosmic rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere

Cosmic rays detected deep underground reveal secrets of the upper atmosphere (Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cosmic-rays detected half a mile underground in a disused U.S. iron-mine can be used to detect major weather events occurring 20 miles up in the Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study has revealed.


CDF

Fermilab's CDF Result Sparks Rumors of New Physics

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (96) | comments 22 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Where are the muon-muon pairs coming from?


New Underground Particle Detectors Proposed for Europe

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 3 feature

Three new giant underground particle detectors have been proposed for construction in Europe that could help achieve some major milestones in physics, such as verifying the decay of a proton, which has been theorized but ...


Pamela Klabbers

World’s fastest image processor aids search for elusive form of matter

Physics /

created Feb 06, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (34) | comments 0

If there is a need for speed at the edge of science, that need is arguably greatest among high-energy physicists.


'Magnetricity' observed and measured for the first time

'Magnetricity' observed and measured for the first time

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (33) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- A magnetic charge can behave and interact just like an electric charge in some materials, according to new research led by the London Centre for Nanotechnology.


NuTeV Anomaly Helps Shed Light on Physics of the Nucleus

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly.


Spinning into the future of data storage

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players, thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic spintronics'.


ZZ Events

Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (40) | comments 5

Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the ...


A Particle of a Different Flavor?

A Particle of a Different Flavor?

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Just as chocolate ice cream never spontaneously becomes strawberry or vanilla, leptons—electrons, muons and taus—are supposed to conserve their "flavor," or family.


Physicists discover 'triple-scoop' baryon

Physicists discover 'triple-scoop' baryon

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 13, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 0

Physicists of the DZero experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new heavy particle, the Ξb (pronounced "zigh sub b") baryon, with a mass of 5. ...


Mile-and-a-half Ice Hole at South Pole

Scientists build an 'ice top' at the bottom of the world

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (47) | comments 0

The University of Delaware is helping to build a huge "IceCube" at the South Pole, and it has nothing to do with cooling beverages.