University of Washington team refrigerates liquids with a laser for the first time. Read more:

An international team that includes researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has captured the most precise—and puzzling—energy measurements yet of ghostly particles called reactor antineutrinos produced at a #nuclear power complex in #China. Read more: #LBNL #Berkeley #neutrinos #antineutrinos #physics #particlephysics

A bit of serendipity while carrying out a routine #calibration led a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab) #BELLA Center to discover a new method to measure the pressure of supersonic nozzles. This is a significant breakthrough—with wide-ranging applications that include miniature #satellites, lab-on-a-chip devices and #laser plasma #accelerators. Read more at: #jCp #LBNL #Berkeley #physics

#Physicists Zoom in on Gluons' Contribution to Proton Spin. Latest data from high-energy proton collisions at RHIC indicate that "wimpy" gluons have a big impact on proton spin, and gluons overall may contribute more than quarks. Read more: #physics #quarks #particlephysics #RHIC #Brookhaven #BNL #gluons

In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of #electrons from an excited state to a relaxed state on demand using a device that served as a #microwave tuning fork. Read more at: #jCp #quantumcomputer #quantumphysics #physics

Rigetti Computing is working on designs for quantum-powered chips to perform previously impossible feats that advance #chemistry and machine learning. Find out more: #quantumcomputing #chips #quantumphysics #RigettiComputing #physics #computing

How LIGO Detected Gravitational Waves: #LIGO #gravity #gravitationalwaves #physics

Physicists discuss findings of gravitational waves and why this is important: #physics #physicists #gravity #gravitationalwaves #Einstein

Scientists produce an extremely cold gas of organic polar molecules: #science #physics #quantumphysics #molecules

A new experiment to search for hypothetical #particles known as sterile #neutrinos has been given the green light by scientists at the CERN particle-physics laboratory near #Geneva. The SFr 200m (£140m) Search for Hidden Particles experiment (SHiP) would be built at #CERN and start up a decade from now. Read more: #SHiP #physics #particlephysics #LHC #accelerator #particleaccelerator

Custom 14" OD x 16 ft. long high vacuum chamber w/ CF 16.5" OD Conflat Flanges on each end. The chamber will be used for conducting nuclear research experiments at a university. The vacuum chamber also features twelve CF 10" ports and six CF 2.75" ports, three of which we installed quartz viewports and another three with zinc selenide viewports: #vacuumchamber #vacuumchambers #nuclear #nuclearresearch #physics #physicsresearch #science #vacuum #vacuumtech

(Phys.org) -- The longstanding search for a room temperature superconductor is fueled by a tantalizing set of possible applications that sound like science fiction: infinitely long power lines that never lose energy, magnetically levitating trains, and incredibly fast quantum computers.

Soft tissue disorders like tumors are very difficult to recognize using normal X-ray machines. There is hardly any distinction between healthy tissue and tumors. Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have now developed a technology using a compact synchrotron source that measures not only X-ray absorption, but also phase shifts and scattering. Tissue that is hardly recognizable using traditional X-ray machines is now visible.

Berkeley Lab Scientists Create the First-ever, 2-stage Laser-plasma Accelerator Powered by Independent Laser Pulses. Read more: #Berkeley #BerkeleyLab #science #accelerator #physics #laser #lasers #AcceleratorTechnology #AppliedPhysics #ATAP #BELLA #plasmaacceleration #particleaccelerator #particlecollider #particlephysics #plasma

Sub-nanometer catalysts show substantially different behavior than projected. This is a photograph of Andrew Crampton and Marian Rotzer at their vacuum chamber for production of ultra-small catalyst particles. Find out more: #science #vacuumchamber #particles #physics

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a new program called Atomic Clocks with Enhanced Stability (#ACES). The program aims to design an atomic clock that is 1,000 times more stable than current models, which are so precise that they are capable of maintaining perfect time for billions of years, neither gaining nor losing 1 second during that time. Read more: #DARPA #military #atomicclock