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Dec 23, 2024 · Entanglement is perhaps one of the most confusing aspects of quantum mechanics. On its surface, entanglement allows particles to communicate over vast distances instantly, apparently violating the ...

Dec 21, 2024 · Researchers focused on three key events: a bottleneck 900,000 years ago (Event 1), the divergence of modern and archaic humans 650,000 years ago (Event 2), and interbreeding between Homo sapiens ...

Nov 19, 2024 · The work is important because it opens up new avenues of research for quantum physicists and material science. By being able to precisely define how a photon interacts with matter and with other ...

emerge as the vacuum decays and the Newcastle University's Professor Ian Moss and Dr. Tom Billam were able to show conclusively that these bubbles are a result of thermally activated vacuum decay.

Nov 5, 2024 · An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the ...

May 14, 2024 · A team of physicists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory at Applied Physics, in New York, has developed a model that shows it might be possible to ...

Nov 20, 2024 · Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life. The values of the many forces and particles, represented by some 30 so ...

Oct 15, 2024 · The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem, therefore, that it should not be difficult to ...

Oct 10, 2024 · Credit: Advanced Functional Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202414219. A breakthrough came about purely by accident. "I was working on a project making extremely strong adhesives using silk ...