experiments
New airport security screening method more than 20 times as successful at detecting deception
Airport security agents using a new conversation-based screening method caught mock airline passengers with deceptive cover stories more than 20 times as often…
Iron-Based Superconductor Simulations Spin Out New Possibilities on Titan
Researchers studying iron-based superconductors are combining novel electronic structure algorithms with the high-performance computing power of the Department…
How a giant impact formed asteroid Vesta’s ‘belt’
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the asteroid Vesta in 2011, it showed that deep grooves that circle the asteroid’s equator like a cosmic belt were probably…
Ultracold disappearing act
A disappearing act was the last thing Rice University physicist Randy Hulet expected to see in his ultracold atomic experiments, but that is what he and his…
City of Stuttgart becomes reality lab
Starting in January 2015, several University of Stuttgart research institutes will be investigating new forms of knowledge transfer in the applied research…
Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?
New research by physicists from Brown University puts the profound strangeness of quantum mechanics in a nutshell — or, more accurately, in a helium bubble.