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...
19 Feb, 2025, 09.42 PM IST
The Hidden Cosmos: Exploring the intriguing world of dark galaxiesResearchers have recently discovered dark galaxies, which are galaxies devoid of visible stars but filled with hydrogen gas. These galaxies...
11 Feb, 2024, 04.27 PM IST
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 ...
05 Jul, 2022, 07.54 PM IST
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...
28 Nov, 2018, 03.06 PM IST
- 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...
05 Oct, 2017, 11.38 AM IST
- 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 --...
08 Feb, 2017, 10.49 PM IST
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...
25 Dec, 2016, 02.15 PM IST
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 ...
06 Jul, 2016, 01.18 PM IST
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...
09 Mar, 2016, 01.26 PM IST
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 ...
15 Feb, 2016, 03.31 PM IST
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.
26 Jul, 2015, 02.30 PM IST
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...
14 Jul, 2015, 08.32 PM IST
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...
19 Jun, 2015, 10.26 AM IST
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...
03 May, 2015, 02.51 PM IST
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...
31 Jan, 2015, 03.56 AM IST
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.
06 Oct, 2014, 01.47 PM IST
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...
01 Oct, 2008, 01.04 AM IST