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Microsoft unveils chip, claiming quantum computers are just years away, not decadesMicrosoft unveiled the Majorana 1 quantum chip, claiming useful quantum computing is "years, not decades" away. Using Majorana fermions, it...
CERN has an exciting discovery: 3 new 'exotic' particlesScientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have discovered something never seen before: three new subatomic particles.
Scientists at CERN observe three "exotic" particles for first timeThe 27 kilometre-long (16.8 mile) LHC at CERN is the machine that found the Higgs boson particle, which along with its linked energy field ...
India to play larger role as CERN looks for more Higgs-like particles: PhysicistArchana Sharma, a senior scientist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, who was involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, said that CE...
- Dust, not aliens, behind mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star
Washington, Oct 5 (IANS) The unusual dips in brightness that a stellar object known as Tabby's Star experiences could be due to an uneven d...
- First white dwarf pulsar discovered
London, Feb 8 (IANS) Astronomers have identified an elusive white dwarf pulsar -- the first of its kind to be discovered in the universe --...
Soon, devices that convert heat into electricityPreviously researchers from Ohio State University in the US pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electrici...
Large Hadron Collider data unveils new 'exotic' particlesEven though the four particles all contain the same quark composition, they each have a unique internal structure, mass and their own sets ...
Dust grains on Earth may be products of stellar explosionsMicroscopic dust particles found in meteoritic material on Earth were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before the cre...
Universe's primordial soup recreated at CERNA few billionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was made up of a kind of extremely hot and dense primordial soup of the most ...
NASA New Horizons spacecraft finds haze, flowing ice on PlutoAnalysis of the image shows two distinct layers of haze - one about 80 kilometres above the surface and the other at 50 kilometres.
CERN discovers new class of particlesIt's as if the previous searches were looking for silhouettes in the dark, whereas LHCb conducted the search with the lights on, and from a...
World’s best physicists to attend Strings Conference 2015 in Bengaluru to debate the mysteries of scienceNext week’s conference, being held in India after 14 years, brings some of the big stars of the physics world to discuss some of the deepes...
Our universe may be a hologram: StudyTo test this hypothesis, gravitational theories have to be constructed, which do not require exotic anti-de-sitter spaces, but live in a fl...
Physicists hoping to see exotic stuff when the Large Hadron Collider wakes up from slumberIn 2012, inside the LHC under the Alps Mountains, physicists raised the temperature to 5.5 trillion degrees centigrade by smashing together...
Majorana fermion: Elusive particle that is its own antiparticle observedIn 1937, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana predicted that a single, stable particle could be both matter and antimatter.
The search for explanationsBefore writing the block-buster Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown published Angels and Demons. The plot shows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, sh...