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H-F professor Brian McCarthy made learning physics theories simple

4Jun

By Dan BarwellNo Comments

Physics

H-F professor Brian McCarthy made learning physics theories simple

For a long time, Brian McCarthy showed abstract notions at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. He retires this month. Many alumni remember McCarthy as their physics professor. He went into the field to some degree since his folks accepted, “I would do a good job explaining what was going on,” he recalls. “Part of it is just the language we use in physics is math and it’s like teaching a foreign language. You’re learning what’s going on in the world, but mathematically,” the retiring teacher said. “Some of it also is when we can tie in what we do in class to real-world applications.” H-F was searching for a physics professor in 1987, and McCarthy was the main senior at Illinois State University graduating with a degree in physics. He applied and was extended to the employment opportu...

13Mar

By Lee TriebelNo Comments

Physics

Scientists map protein movement

Cornell structural biologists adopted a new strategy for using a great technique for X-ray analysis to catch something the conventional strategy had never represented: the collective movement of proteins. Also, they did as such by making software to painstakingly stitch together the scraps of information that are usually dismissed simultaneously. Their paper, "Diffuse X-ray Scattering from Correlated Motions in a Protein Crystal," published March 9 in Nature Communications. As a structural biologist, Nozomi Ando, M.S. '04, Ph.D. '08, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, is keen on charting the movement of proteins, and their internal parts, to more readily comprehend protein function. This sort of movement is notable yet has been hard to document because the stand...

Scientists propose new physics to clarify rot of subatomic particle

11Mar

By HannahNo Comments

Physics

Scientists propose new physics to clarify rot of subatomic particle

Florida State University physicists believe they have a response to unusual incidents of uncommon rot of a subatomic particle called a Kaon that was accounted for a year ago by researchers in the KOTO experiment at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. FSU Associate Professor of Physics Takemichi Okui and Assistant Professor of Physics Kohsaku Tobioka published a new paper in the journal Physical Review Letters that recommends that this rot is a new, short-lived particle that has stayed away from recognition in comparable investigations. "This is such a rare disintegration," Okui said. "It's so rare, that they should not have seen any. But if this is correct, how do we explain it? We think this is one possibility." Kaons are particles made of one quark and one antiquar...

The quickest turning object in the world hits 300 billion rpm

25Feb

By Lee TriebelNo Comments

Physics

The quickest turning object in the world hits 300 billion rpm

Back in July 2018, specialists at Purdue University made the world's quickest turning object, which whipped around at 60 billion rpm – and now that appears as though the teacup ride at Disneyland. A similar group has now broken its record utilizing a similar method, making another nano-scale rotor that turns multiple times quicker. Like the previous rendition, the spinning object being referred to as a hand weight molded silica nanoparticle suspended in a vacuum. At the point when it's set turning, this new model hit the rankling rate of more than 300 billion rpm. For examination, dental specialist drills are known to find a good pace 500,000 rpm, while the quickest pulsar – which is the speediest-turning known regular article – turns at a lackadaisical 43,000 rpm. Setting this re...

Spacetime ‘Echoes’ From Quantum Black Holes could soon transform physics eternally

12Feb

By Dan BarwellNo Comments

Physics

Spacetime ‘Echoes’ From Quantum Black Holes could soon transform physics eternally

Researchers are racing to affirm the detection of black hole "echoes" that could unlock exotic new branches of physics and extend comprehension of the fabric of the real world. A key mystery about black holes may be resolved by frightful "echoes" in spacetime, which could unlock a completely new branch of exotic physics on the off chance that they are ever identified. The echoes may have just been distinguished, as indicated by a recent report published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, however, it will take more perceptions and research no doubt. These signals, assuming they exist, would be made by close interactions with black holes, and they could help researchers with affirming whether matter that enters black holes is genuinely gone for eternity. “Thi...

A new turn on quantum communication in optical fiber

27Jan

By Lee TriebelNo Comments

Physics

A new turn on quantum communication in optical fiber

New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, has exciting ramifications for secure information transfer across optical fiber networks. The group has exhibited that different quantum patterns of twisted light can be transmitted over an ordinary fiber link that, incomprehensibly, supports just one pattern. The suggestion is a new way to deal with realizing a future quantum network, harnessing different dimensions of entangled quantum light. Science Advances published the research by a group led by Professor Andrew Forbes from the School of Physics at Wits University in collaboration with a foreman by Professor Jian Wang at HUST. In their paper, titled "Multi-dimensional entangle...

Scientists report a new use for the waste product of nuclear power generation

14Jan

By HannahNo Comments

Physics

Scientists report a new use for the waste product of nuclear power generation

Scientists have discovered a new use for the waste product of nuclear power—changing an unused and stockpile into a flexible compound that could be used to make important commodity chemicals as well as new energy sources. Drained uranium (DU) is a radioactive by-product of the procedure used to make nuclear energy. With many dreading the health dangers from DU, it is either stored in costly facilities or used to produce controversial armor-piercing missiles. Be that as it may, in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Professor Geoff Cloke, Professor Richard Layfield, and Dr. Nikolaos Tsoureas, all at the University of Sussex, have uncovered that DU could, truth be told, be more valuable than we may think. By using a catalyst which contains exhausted...

Higher carbon dioxide levels could muddle reasoning

24Dec

By Lee TriebelNo Comments

Physics

Higher carbon dioxide levels could muddle reasoning

A group of scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania has discovered proof that recommends higher CO2 levels in the future may unfavorably affect the psychological capacities of students in classrooms. The group has given an introduction at the current year's American Geophysical Union meeting outlining their research and published a paper depicting the discoveries on the EarthArXiv preprint server. People are currently pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at such a rate, that it is warming the atmosphere. However, as CO2 levels rise, everyone might be looked at with another issue—obfuscated thinking. Earlier research has indicated that higher-than-normal levels of CO2 can prompt cognitive issues. In this new ...

Quantum computers might mark their very own homework

2Dec

By Gook JahnNo Comments

Physics

Quantum computers might mark their very own homework

A new and proficient protocol for evaluating the rightness of quantum computations has been made by Samuele Ferracin, Animesh Datta and associates at the UK's University of Warwick. The group is presently teaming up with exploratory physicists to assess the protocol on nascent quantum processors. Quantum computing has been progressing quickly and physicists are currently in the beginning times of building quantum processors that can beat supercomputers on certain computational errands. Be that as it may, quantum computations can without much of a stretch be upset by environmental noise, which destroys quantum data in a procedure called decoherence. Subsequently, it is urgent to guarantee that a quantum computer has done the necessary calculation and has not fallen prey to decoherence....

Century-old nourishment testing strategy updated to incorporate complex liquid dynamics

13Nov

By HannahNo Comments

Physics

Century-old nourishment testing strategy updated to incorporate complex liquid dynamics

The texture of nourishment, including properties that decide how purchasers experience biting and swallowing, is a significant part of the development of more enjoyable nourishments. So as to totally comprehend these properties, better strategies and gadgets for testing are required to capture the motion inside fluid materials, particularly in the case of nourishments that are complex fluids, as gelled desserts. Testing gadgets have been improved utilizing various geometries in the testing chamber, and all the more recently, better outcomes have been accomplished utilizing data from rheological testing combined with results from different tests, for example, inner visualization strategies and ultrasonic imaging. Be that as it may, conventional techniques have been not able to produce ...