Quiet cables set to help reveal rare physics events

PNNL chemist Isaac Arnquist examines ultra-low radiation copper cables specially created for sensitive physics detection experiments. Credit: Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Imagine trying to tune a radio…

In helium-three, superfluid particles pair ‘like a dance in space’

A model probing the connection between entangled particles and wormholes in general relativity

This shows the simulation, or time evolution, of the system. t-bar is a unitless time variable. The blue curve illustrates the wormhole. The horizontal portion is the main part of…

Researchers advance topological superconductors for quantum computing

As part of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at ORNL, Robert Moore probes the interface between a topological insulator and a superconductor with spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Credit: Carlos…

LCLS-II ushers in a new era of science

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory successfully produced its first X-rays. The upgrade, called LCLS-II,…

Buried Ancient Roman Glass Formed Substance with Modern Applications

Newswise — Some 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, glass vessels carrying wine or water, or perhaps an exotic perfumes, tumble from a table in a marketplace, and shatter to…

Scalable multipartite entanglement achieved with ultracold atoms in optical lattice

New clues to the nature of elusive dark matter

Newswise — A team of international researchers, led by experts at the University of Adelaide, has uncovered further clues in the quest for insights into the nature of dark matter.…

ATLAS experiment places some of the tightest limits yet on magnetic monopoles

Illustration of magnetic monopoles (larger image) and a magnetic dipole (inset). Credit: CERN Magnets, those everyday objects we stick to our fridges, all share a unique characteristic: they always have…

A nonrelativistic and nonmagnetic mechanism for generating terahertz waves