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by Johannes LEDEL / with Patrick GALEY in Paris STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — A trio of scientists, Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US, won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their research into what the Nobel committee called “one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole.” Penrose, 89, was honoured for showing “that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The position of the Earth’s magnetic North Pole — used in navigation systems such as smartphones — is moving far faster than it has, sending scientists scrambling to put out a new model this week. The magnetic North is the point at which the planet’s magnetic field points vertically down. The World Magnetic Model is critical to sea and military navigation — as well as our ubiquitous smartphones. It normally […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — When Stephen Hawking postulated in the mid-1970s that black holes leak radiation, slowly dissolving like aspirin in a glass of water, he overturned a core tenet of the Universe. Ever since Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1915, predicting the existence of black holes, it was thought they devour everything in their vicinity, including light. Black holes, it was thought, were […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – Physicists on Monday announced an important step towards unravelling one of the Universe’s great mysteries: What happened to all the anti-matter created in the Big Bang? A new technique has allowed them to study the behaviour of a single atom of anti-matter under ultraviolet light, a team wrote in the journal Nature. “Imagine you are the first one to look at something about the Universe […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – Hopes for a new particle discovery that might have up-ended the standard model of physics were dashed on Friday, as scientists admitted that a “bump” in the data was actually just a “blip.” A great deal of excitement was generated by the December 2015 announcement that a fluctuation in the data had been found independently by two groups of scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a massive underground atom-smasher […]
A quantum information research team led by Professor Pan Jianwei won the first prize in 2015 China’s State Natural Sciences for being the first in the world to make achievement in quantum information. The team is the first to achieve the simultaneous quantum teleportation of two inherent properties of a fundamental particle Quantum teleportation is a process in which quantum information, like the exact state of an atom or photon, can be transmitted from one […]
Two scientists from Japan and Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, for discovering that neutrinos have mass, which changed our views of the universe. The prize was awarded to Takaaki Kajita, a professor at the University of Tokyo, and Arthur B. McDonald, a professor emeritus at Queen’s University, announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. “It’s very important because neutrinos are elementary particles. There are very many of them. They are […]
