A two-step scheme for inertial confinement fusion generates gigabar shock pressures in a fuel target. Read More »
Researchers have cooled a gas of erbium atoms to a fraction of the Fermi temperature. Read More »
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has placed stringent limits on a hypothetical fourth neutrino. Read More »
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions could provide a snapshot of alpha clustering in light nuclei. Read More »
The discovery of a new excited state in carbon-12 hints at this nucleus’s triangular symmetry. Read More »
The index of refraction in a gas of bosons is enhanced relative to its value in a classical gas, a predicted quantum effect that has now been observed in ultracold sodium atoms. Read More »
Gamma-ray observations of dark matter spikes near supermassive black holes provide a test of fermionic dark matter models. Read More »
Precision measurements of the neutron lifetime differ by about 8 seconds. Read More »
New simulations analyze the phase transition of a Bose glass to a superfluid, bringing to rest a discrepancy between theory and experiments. Read More »
Researchers have independently confirmed the existence of element 117 and have discovered a new isotope along the way. Read More »
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