10+ hour, 41+ min ago  (1340+ words) Nuclear war may keep humanity from finding a "theory of everything," top physicist says After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world"s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war"s…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (963+ words) Can inflationary fluctuations calculated using classical physics ever truly match those predicted by quantum theory? Calculations of the tree-level bispectrum and one-loop power spectrum now demonstrate that even initial agreement will diverge as inflation proceeds, with the difference growing exponentially…...

20+ hour, 10+ min ago  (213+ words) Atkins R'alis and Oxford University's robotics institute have formed a partnership to develop autonomous systems for use across nuclear and energy facilities worldwide. The agreement brings together Atkins R'alis, an engineering and project management group active in the nuclear sector,…...

19+ hour, 58+ min ago  (36+ words) The cosmological constant problem, or the vacuum catastrophe is a discrepency in the observed values of the vaccuum energy density and its theoretical predictions. The solution may lie in the very shape of the universe itself....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (316+ words) Yahoo - Physicists have successfully simulated false vacuum decay, a quantum process theorized to be capable of ending the universe as we know it. - The simulation, conducted by researchers studying quantum field behavior, offers the first experimental analog of a phenomenon…...

1+ day, 40+ min ago  (454+ words) Sci Tech Daily Seeing the Invisible: Scientists Develop New Way To Track Particles in 3 D Physicists are rethinking how to detect elusive particles like neutrinos by combining existing technologies in unconventional ways. Progress in physics often comes from unexpected combinations…...

21+ hour, 41+ min ago  (17+ words) From black holes to the arrow of time, find the cosmic energy that holds your world together....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (702+ words) New muon g-2 calculation brings theory and experiment into agreement, shrinking hopes for a fifth force of nature. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (108+ words) This marks a first-of-its-kind precedent, where Georgian scientists will develop products in the fields of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, which will be exported to leading scientific institutions worldwide through CERN membership. A key component of the project will be…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (262+ words) By including weights associated with particles, researchers in the US, South Korea and Germany have generalized significantly the concept of hyperuniformity of multi-particle systems. In their latest work, Torquato and colleagues have extended the theoretical description of hyperuniform systems by…...