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The brand-new facility FRESH-UP (Fission product REmoval from Salts at High temperatures - Ultrafine Particles) is used to study the removal of solid fission products from molten salt reactors.

University of Glasgow physicists working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN have led a precise new measurement of the mass of the top quark, using high-transverse-momentum ('boosted') top quarks. The top quark is no ordinary particle. Weighing approximately 173 GeV - as much as a gold atom - it is the heaviest known fundamental particle.

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together.

Superconductivity is a quantum physical state in which a metal is able to conduct electricity perfectly without any resistance. In its most familiar application, it enables powerful magnets in MRI machines to create the magnetic fields that allow doctors to see inside our bodies. Thus far, materials can only achieve superconductivity at extremely low temperatures, near absolute zero (a few tens of Kelvin or colder).

Yesterday, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter. In its analysis of large quantities of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider , the international team found overwhelming evidence that particles known as baryons, such as the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, are subject to a mirror-like asymmetry in nature's fundamental laws that causes matter and antimatter to behave differently.

Proteins in the sheath of cellular protrusions regulate the ability of cells to adhere to surfaces Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from Germany and Italy have recently revealed new insights into the protective layer surrounding these cilia.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which involves UCL researchers, has released its most detailed analysis yet of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion.

Researchers, working with the Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, have developed a new method for identifying neutrinos using data from CERN's NA62 experiment-which recently observed the rarest particle decay ever recorded. Particle physics explores the smallest building blocks of nature, particles so tiny that trillions of them pass through us unnoticed every second.

In the effort to build superconducting quantum computers, researchers around the world are working to develop electrical circuits that operate in the microwave domain using individual particles of microwave radiation, or microwave photons, as qubits-the basic building blocks of quantum computing.

ISTA PhD candidate spearheads efforts in tailoring algorithms to quantum hardware Quantum computing remains a research endeavor, explained the Physics Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek earlier this year, contextualizing the widespread industry aspirations to enter markets.

Low-orbit satellites may soon be able to dodge space debris, thanks to a collaboration between scientists from the University of Calgary and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful experiment was a kind of "quantum Lego" made of tiny carbon molecules known as nanographenes.

Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics.

An international research collaboration, including The University of Warwick, The University of Cambridge and UCL, has demonstrated that 'wonder material' phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) exhibit both magnetic and electronic properties at room temperature, establishing them as a unique class of low-dimensional materials.

An international research project, led by The University of Warwick and University of Lille, has used nanotube compression to transform the underlying chemistry and physics of a compound, creating a promising new one-dimensional material.

Scientists have developed a hydrogen sensor that could accelerate the transition to clean hydrogen energy.

At the end of January, Empa opened a new laboratory that aims to harness quantum effects from carbon.

When most people think of diamonds, they picture jewelry, but researchers at the University of Luxembourg have been investigating a very different side of this material.

People all'over the world largely agree on what the colour blue looks like or what the shape of a ball feels like.

Just a few months after it was launched, the spacecraft observed one of the most violent flare eruptions on the sun - from its origin to its full release.

Researchers at the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester have achieved a significant milestone in the field of quantum electronics with their latest study on spin injection to graphene.

Laying the groundwork for quantum communication systems of the future, engineers at Caltech have demonstrated the successful operation of a quantum network of two nodes, each containing multiple quantum bits, or qubits-the fundamental information-storing building blocks of quantum computers. To achieve this, the researchers developed a new protocol for distributing quantum information in a parallel manner, effectively creating multiple channels for sending data, or multiplexing.

Researchers at the TechMed Centre of the University of Twente and Radboud University Medical Center have removed blood clots with wireless magnetic robots.

Quantum computing could be one of the big technological revolutions of the coming decades. At EPFL, scientists are at the forefront of harnessing quantum technologies to address real-world issues, aligning their efforts with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Safety critical components for aircraft and Formula 1 racing cars could one day be 3D printed via a new technique, developed by researchers at UCL and the University of Greenwich, that substantially reduces imperfections in the manufacturing process. The technique was developed after the team used advanced X-ray imaging to observe the causes of imperfections that formed in complex 3D printed metal alloy components.

The neutrino observatory KM3Net is located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea and measures a cosmic neutrino at the highest energies to date In the Mediterranean Sea, scientists, including astron

  A new research team focused on photonic quantum technologies will begin work this February at RWTH's Chair for Laser Technology (LLT). While quantum computers already demonstrate superior processing power compared to conventional systems for complex tasks, researchers are now tackling the next frontier: how to enhance their capabilities while ensuring secure access.

Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before.

By combining organic and inorganic chemistry, scientists at TU Wien developed the innovative lubricant COK-47 - with remarkable capabilities.

Euclid, the European Space Agency telescope whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by UCL researchers, has captured a rare phenomenon known as an Einstein ring which reveals the extreme warping of space caused by a galaxy's gravity.

TU Wien, the University of Innsbruck and the company qtlabs are working together on a major FFG-funded A millennia-old problem will finally be solved: ever since humans have been sending messages, people have been trying to keep these messages secret.

Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and neutrons. For the first time, researchers have provided measurements describing a maximum boundary for a subatomic particle known as a hybrid meson in a journal  paper published in Physical Review Letters.

Imperial's Professor Tim Horbury and Helen O'Brien are celebrating the impact of the Solar Orbiter as they mark five years since it first launched.

An international space mission currently mapping the dark Universe has discovered a rare 'Einstein Ring' in a galaxy not far away.