Axions not confirmed by PVLAS
From PhysicsWeb News: “The existence of a hypothetical particle called the axion has been put into further doubt now that the team that first claimed its discovery has failed to reproduce their...
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Classical Molecules
Animation showing the interaction of four charges of equal mass1, two positive and two negative, in the approximation of classical electromagnetism. The particles interact via the Coulomb force,...
View ArticleTeleportation without shared entanglement
From ACQAO through The Quantum Pontiff: “Theorists from the UQ (Ashton Bradley, Simon Haine, Murray Olsen) and ANU Faculties (Joseph Hope) nodes of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics...
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Bouncing liquid jets
Physicists from the University of Texas at Austin found that “a liquid jet can bounce off a bath of the same liquid if the bath is moving horizontally with respect to the jet. Previous observations of...
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Genomes inside genomes
Scientists at the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have discovered a copy of the entire genome of Wolbachia, a bacterial parasite, residing inside the genome of its completely...
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Water Clouds
Terrestrial clouds are the result of extraordinarily complex interactions between water and air, with several feedback mechanisms combining the effects of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.1 Click...
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Marangoni flow
Liquid surfaces are pulled by the intermolecular forces, which are unbalanced on the boundary, producing surface tension. When liquid layers with different surface tension get in contact, these forces...
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Reversible computation
A computation (from latin computare, “to count”, “to cut”), is the abstract representation of a physical process in terms of states, and transitions between states or events. The definition of possible...
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Atomic orbital
Time evolution of an hydrogenic (single-electron) atomic orbital with quantum numbers | 3, 2, 1 > according to the Schrödinger equation (colors represent phase). In atomic matter, electrons orbiting...
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Canon 1 a 2
In the enigmatic Canon 1 a 2 from J. S. Bach’s “Musical Offering” (1747) (also known as “crab canon” or “canon cancrizans”), the manuscript shows a single score, whose beginning joins with the end....
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