Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of physics educators from Italy, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum physics in schools. Traditional classroom teaching…
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Capturing complex atoms in optical tweezers
Part of the experimental set-up with the cylindrical oven and the apparatus for cooling of erbium atoms. The light from the cyan laser is used to trap the particles. Credit:…
Extending classical black hole inequalities into the quantum realm
Scientists are exploring the effects of quantum phenomena on black hole dynamics. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman, cmglee. A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects…
A Businesslike Name for a ‘High-Performing Machine’
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The latest addition to the computational arsenal of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is an extraordinary machine with the…
SLAC celebrates 50 years of Nobel-winning discovery in particle physics
Webstory: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2024-11-20-slac-celebrates-50-years-nobel-winning-discovery-particle-physics On Nov. 11, 1974, two research teams rocked the particle physics world when they announced they had independently discovered a new subatomic particle – the J/psi. The…
