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The nature of electrons within liquids plays a pivotal role in governing a wide array of chemical reactions, thereby influencing crucial processes within organisms and the global ecosystem.
We will likely shed more than a few tears at modernity’s passing, and that’s understandable. But joy awaits as well.
Binding together quarks into protons, neutrons and atomic nuclei is a force so strong, it’s in the name. The strong force, which is carried by gluon particles, is the strongest of all fundamental forces of nature – the others being electromagnetism, the weak force and gravity. Yet, it’s the least precisely measured of these four forces. In a paper just submitted to Nature Physics, the ATLAS collaboration describes how it has used the Z boson, the electrically neutral carrier of the weak force, to determine the strength of the strong force with an unprecedented uncertainty of below 1%. Th...
Electronics of the future hinge on the discovery of unique materials. Sometimes, however, the naturally occurring topology of atoms makes it difficult for new physical effects to be created. To address this, scientists from the University of Zurich have now successfully designed superconductors one
After retractions from Ranga Dias’ group, high-pressure physicists are feeling the squeeze, fearing the controversy will tarnish other research.