News tagged with nuclear physics

Borexino Collaboration succeeds in spotting pep neutrinos emitted from the sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- To learn more about how the sun works, scientists study particles that are emitted from it into space due to thermonuclear reactions that occur inside; by applying known physics principles, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Hot molecule explains cold chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprisingly, hydrogen cyanide and its far more energetic isomer, hydrogen isocyanide, are present in almost equal amounts in cold interstellar gas clouds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research promises smaller, cheaper therapy machines that could revolutionise cancer treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Landmark technology that could revolutionise cancer therapy and pave the way for cleaner, safer nuclear reactors in the future, has been published in Nature Physics today. The pioneering EMMA ( ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research could lead to enhanced MRI scans

New research from the University of Southampton could lead to enhanced MRI scans, producing brighter and more precise images, and potentially allowing the detection of cancerous cells before they cause health ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Particle physicists report 'intriguing hints' of Higgs Boson

Yesterday physicists in Europe reported possible signs of the Higgs boson, a missing piece in the particle-physics puzzle long suspected of giving elementary particles -- such as electrons and quarks -- their mass ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 27

'Faster-than-light' particles spark science drama

Oh Albert. Did you get it wrong? In 2011, physics was shaken by an experiment which said the Universe's speed limit, enshrined by Einstein in his 1905 theory of special relativity, could be broken.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 82

LHC to narrow search for Higgs boson

Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher have new data that shows with greater certainty where to find a long-sought theoretical particle that would help explain the origins of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields results

A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 123

Quantum error correction in solid state processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Liquid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has been successful for quantum information processing,” Osama Moussa tells PhysOrg.com. “However, there are some questions about scalability and ot ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

First result from a new generation of reactor neutrino experiments

Physicists of the Double Chooz experiment detected a short-range disappearance of electron antineutrinos. They presented this result on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the LowNu conference in Seoul, Korea. It helps determine ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists take fresh look at 'faster-than-light' experiment

Scientists who threw down the gauntlet to physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed limit said on Friday they were revisiting their contested experiment.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 146

Study: Japan nuke radiation higher than estimated

A new report says the Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a dangerous radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total from Chernobyl.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Time reversal: A simple particle could reveal new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple atomic nucleus could reveal properties associated with the mysterious phenomenon known as time reversal and lead to an explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics: the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 128 | with audio podcast

Tevatron retires: The era of big American physics about to end

The era of big American physics ends Friday with the retirement of the Tevatron particle accelerator, which has been recreating the Big Bang under four miles of Illinois prairie for 25 years.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 16

Rebalancing the nuclear debate through education

Better physics teaching with a particular emphasis on radioactivity and radiation science could improve public awareness through education of the environmental benefits and relative safety of nuclear power generation, according ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1