Nuclear fusion: WEST machine beats the world record for plasma duration
WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak ...
The Milky Way’s Black Hole Is Producing a Brilliant Light Show
NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.
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Flickers and flares: Milky Way's central black hole constantly bubbles with light
Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...
Strong nuclear force calculations explain multiscale phenomena in atomic nuclei
Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be ...
What is this giant, white streak in the sky? Here's the answer
Around 6:09 p.m. on Monday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Black History Month at the California Science Center
It’s Black History Month! Gayle Anderson reports from the California Science Center about the development of the new Samuel ...
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We know why nuclear build costs are soaring — and Australia faces the biggest increases
The history of nuclear power construction is the history of costs going up and up, and delays getting longer and longer — not just over the past decade but since the 1960s. And studies of what ...
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Department of Physics and Biophysics
The Department of Physics and Biophysics at USD teaches students to explore the interactions of matter and energy from the simplicity of a molecule or a swinging pendulum to the complexity of nuclear ...
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Amplitude and phase noise in two-membrane cavity optomechanics
Cavity optomechanics is a suitable field to explore quantum effects on macroscopic objects and develop quantum technology applications. A perfect control of the laser noise is required to operate the ...
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After diamonds, scientists create qubit centers in gemstone spinel
Spinels are a transparent gems that come in red, blue, black, lavender, white, yellow, and other colors. They are considered rarer than diamonds but when it comes to price, these gems generally ...
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A tiny neutrino detector scored big at a nuclear reactor
A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.
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About CERN
The name CERN is derived from the acronym for the French "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire", or European Council for Nuclear Research, a provisional body founded in 1952 with the mandate ...