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How many languages are spoken in the CMS experiment? Shivani Lomte shares her expertise in Marathi
How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?
The giant holes in galaxies’ centers shouldn’t be able to merge, yet merge they do. Scientists suggest that an unusual form of dark matter may be the solution.
The post How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Read the full article at: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-merging-supermassive-black-holes-pass-the-final-parsec-20241023/Bose featured in Physics World panel on latest in Higgs research in honor of CERN’s 70th anniversary
Halzen featured in APS story on neutrino detector experiments
Separate research groups push fusion plasma performance to new levels
Two teams of scientists have announced a breakthrough in fusion energy research, demonstrating for the first time the ability to simultaneously achieve high plasma density and confinement in a tokamak reactor. Derived from a Russian acronym, a tokamak is a donut-shaped experimental device that uses magnetic fields to make use of the energy of nuclear…
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Read the full article at: https://www.rdworldonline.com/separate-research-groups-push-fusion-plasma-performance-to-new-levels/Raheem Hashmani discusses microwaves in Everyday Health articles
UW-Madison one step closer to harnessing the power of the sun through fusion research
For the first time, a fusion device at the University of Wisconsin in Madison has generated plasma, inching one step closer toward using nuclear fusion as a source of carbon-free energy.
The post UW-Madison one step closer to harnessing the power of the sun through fusion research appeared first on WPR.
Read the full article at: https://www.wpr.org/news/uw-madison-one-step-closer-to-harnessing-the-power-of-the-sun-through-fusion-researchBaha Balentekin’s entangled neutrino work featured in Popular Mechanics
Seeking the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
New research examines whether the sources of the highest-energy photons could also be the sources of the highest-energy charged particles.
The post Seeking the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays appeared first on AAS Nova.
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