Atomic cloud is squashed and strained by light
Collective force could be used to fine-tune interatomic interactions (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 24, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Hamish Johnston Source Type: news

Concerns raised over NIST security breaches
US Government Accountability Office calls for increased measures (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 20, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Peter Gwynne Source Type: news

Atoms and Josephson junctions simulate 1D quantum liquid
Quantum simulators confirm Tomonaga–Luttinger theory (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 20, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Hamish Johnston Source Type: news

What happened to the GW170817 neutron stars after the merger?
Short-lived hypermassive neutron star could have been formed (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 18, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Hamish Johnston Source Type: news

Spectacular collision of two neutron stars observed for first time
LIGO–Virgo collaboration and dozens of telescopes see gravitational waves and gamma rays from stupendous event, triggering new era in "multi-messenger astronomy" (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 16, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Hamish Johnston Source Type: news

Ultracold molecules with electric and magnetic moments stick around
Long-lived molecules could shed light on the hyperfine interaction (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 14, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Tim Wogan Source Type: news

Mpemba effect could occur in granular fluids
Odd phenomenon that hot water freezes faster than cold appears to be mirrored in granular media (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 12, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Jennifer Ouelette Source Type: news

Experiments shed new light on how life-giving carbon is forged in stars
Physicists monitor decay of carbon-12's Hoyle state (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 12, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Edwin Cartlidge Source Type: news

Do topological waves occur in the oceans?
Kelvin and Yanai waves share similarities with topological insulators (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 10, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Philip Ball Source Type: news

US nuclear-physics facility completes $338m upgrade
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility now runs at 12 GeV (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 10, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Michael Banks Source Type: news

Light polarization modulated rapidly by gold nanorods
Effect could be used to make better pharmaceuticals (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 7, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Tim Wogan Source Type: news

X-ray laser takes 3D images of lopsided viruses
Ultra-bright pulses goes beyond conventional crystallography (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 6, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Edwin Cartlidge Source Type: news

Physicists bag chemistry Nobel for cryo-electron microscopy
Technique revolutionized how biological molecules are imaged (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 5, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Hamish Johnston Source Type: news

Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne win 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics
Trio win for their work on gravitational waves (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 3, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Tushna Commissariat; Hamish Johnston Source Type: news

Black-hole growth accelerated by supersonic gas
Did early supermassive objects get a boost from the early universe? (Source: PhysicsWeb News)
Source: PhysicsWeb News - October 3, 2017 Category: Physics Authors: Keith Cooper Source Type: news