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Physicists are on the brink of unlocking an elusive particle’s secrets

In this edition of HORIZONS, read about a new era for particle physics, SpaceX and NASA's upcoming Crew-4 mission, and more.

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A decade of science and trillions of collisions show the W boson is more massive than expected – a physicist on the team explains what it means for the Standard Model

“You can do it quickly, you can do it cheaply, or you can do it right. We did it right.” These were some of the opening remarks from David Toback, leader of the Collider Detector at Fermilab, as he announced the results of a decadelong experiment to measure the mass…

The Conversation

Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers – but that's okay

Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock.

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Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists

Scientists have calculated that a fundamental particle of physics has more mass than expected

The Independent UK

How a null neutrino result could still help us find antimatter

The CUORE collaboration found no trace of an elusive particle that could have explained why the Big Bang left anything behind.

Inverse

Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls – this engineering advance is building toward reactors of the future

Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The production of 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at the Joint European Torus – or JET – experiment in England has been called “a breakthrough” by…

The Conversation

Physicist Eugene Parker, namesake of NASA probe, dies at 94

A physicist who theorized the existence of solar wind and became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name has died

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What is quantum entanglement? The physics of 'spooky action at a distance' explained

Quantum entanglement is one seriously long-distance relationship.

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Physicists are finally ready to test a key Einstein theory

In February 2022, physicists made two critical advances in atomic clocks — bringing them closer than ever before to testing a key Einstein theory.

Inverse

Physicists discover a massive problem with the search for dark matter

A simulation of the early universe revealed the mass of an elusive dark matter particle to be twice as massive as previously thought.

Inverse

Nuclear fusion: how excited should we be?

There’s been tremendous excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, hinting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works – it is the process that powers the Sun, providing heat and light to the…

The Conversation

Nuclear fusion heat record a ‘huge step’ in quest for new energy source

Oxfordshire scientists’ feat raises hopes of using reactions that power sun for low-carbon energy

The Guardian - UK

Harvard physicist opens up on role played in Liverpool transfers and matches

William Spearman is Liverpool's lead data scientist and has been at the club since 2018

Liverpool Echo

Physicists create self-burning plasma, but is it a step towards sustainable nuclear fusion energy?

This marks a milestone on the way to nuclear fusion power — and perhaps sustainable electricity generation — using lasers.

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New discovery puts nuclear physicists closer to creating sustained fusion

Livermore scientists prove burning plasma is possible — paving the way for robust "artificial stars" that could sustain nuclear fusion reactions

Reason

How much of the quantum tech boom is just welfare for physicists?

Episode 391 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Inverse

Physicists are rethinking how we measure time

A University of Colorado team tested aluminum-ion, ytterbium, and strontium atomic clocks to help find ways to improve the accuracy of timekeeping.

The Conversation

2021: a year physicists asked, 'What lies beyond the Standard Model?'

If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.”

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COP26: a letter to school strikers from 'the physicist behind net zero'

Dear school striker,

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Shortlist of sites for world's first nuclear fusion power plant announced

The project could potentially create thousands of jobs in Britain

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Invisibility Cloak and Quantum Physics Tipped for Nobel Prize

Quantum physics, invisibility cloaks and a cutting-edge Italian theorist are all tipped to win Tuesday's Nobel Physics Prize, a year after it went to pioneering research on black holes. The prestigious honor, to be announced at 11:45 am (0945 GMT) in Stockholm, is the second Nobel of the season after…

The Independent UK

Magnet milestones move distant nuclear fusion dream closer

Teams working on two continents have marked similar milestones in their respective efforts to master nuclear fusion

The Conversation

Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? My research takes us a step closer to finding out

One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to propose an ambitious answer.

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Approaching zero: super-chilled mirrors edge towards the borders of gravity and quantum physics

The LIGO gravitational wave observatory in the United States is so sensitive to vibrations it can detect the tiny ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. These waves are caused by colliding black holes and other stellar cataclysms in distant galaxies, and they cause movements in the observatory much smaller than…

The Independent UK

Bizarre particle discovered morphing between matter and antimatter raises mystery about the Big Bang

The charm meson has a light and heavy version that helps distinguish between its matter and antimatter states

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