Scientists Rule Out the Existence of a Long-Suspected Particle

BYLINE: Kitta MacPherson Newswise — After collecting and analyzing data for a decade, a group of scientists, including a team from Rutgers, have debunked a decades-old theory about a mysterious…

MicroBooNE Finds No Evidence for a Sterile Neutrino

Newswise — Scientists are closing the door on one explanation for a neutrino mystery that has plagued them for decades. An international collaboration of scientists working on the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department…

Artificial Intelligence Helps Produce Clean Water

Newswise — About 2.2 billion people, more than a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to safe, managed drinking water, and about half of the world’s population experiences severe…

Physicist helps set the U.S. priorities for investing millions in particle physics

Newswise — AMES, Iowa – There are 32 signatures marking approval of the new report from the 2023 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel. From Shoji Asai to Robert Zwaska, the…

Researchers demonstrate that quantum entanglement and topology are inextricably linked

Newswise — For the first time, researchers from the Structured Light Laboratory (School of Physics) at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, led by Professor Andrew Forbes, in collaboration with…

Calculation Shows Why Heavy Quarks Get Caught up in the Flow

Newswise — UPTON, NY—Using some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, a group of theorists has produced a major advance in the field of nuclear physics—a calculation of the “heavy…

Quantum-Enhanced Microscope Doubles Resolution

Newswise — Using a “spooky” phenomenon of quantum physics, Caltech researchers have discovered a way to double the resolution of light microscopes. The journal Nature Communications has published a paper…

Fast light pulse triggers charge transfer into water

Newswise — In certain molecules, the so-called photoacids, a proton can be released locally by excitation with light. There is a sudden change in the pH value in the solution…