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The article focuses on SHINE Technologies, which has been innovatively monetizing fusion-generated neutrons through a four-step plan: neutron imaging, medical isotope production, nuclear waste transmutation, and fusion power. It highlights SHINE's success with isotopes like lutetium-177 and its ambition to lead in the fusion energy sector despite challenges.

The article focuses on the potential of a muon collider to revolutionize particle physics, exploring its feasibility, technical hurdles, and its capacity to address key inquiries such as elucidating the Higgs mechanism, which explains how particles acquire mass, investigating dark matter, and probing supersymmetry. Topics include the challenges in building a muon collider, its advantages over conventional colliders, and its implications for addressing fundamental questions in particle physics.

The article highlights recent turmoil at Fermilab, the U.S.'s primary particle physics laboratory, caused by a budget mishap and management issues. Topics discussed include the planned furlough of staff due to budget mismanagement, ongoing criticism from current and former employees, and the lab's struggles with its contractor and internal administrative challenges.

The article discusses the challenges faced by doctors while adopting the use of Portable low-field scanners which offer a revolutionary solution for medical imaging and diagnosis. It discusses how the use of Portable low-field scanners uses smaller permanent magnets, and portable scanners can be made at a lower cost, making Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) accessible globally to transform medical imaging.

The article discusses Australia's significant investment in PsiQuantum to build a large-scale quantum computing facility in Brisbane, Queensland, focusing on the country's gamble on photon-based quantum computing technology. Topics include the advantages of photon-based qubits over traditional approaches, the challenges and advancements in scaling up this technology, and the potential impact of Australia's investment on its quantum computing ecosystem and workforce development.

The article offers news brief on topic including scientists in Japan have fired trillions of neutrinos hundreds of kilometers through Earth to a gigantic subterranean detector called Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) to study their shifting properties. Yet the nearly massless particles interact with other matter so feebly that the experiment, known as T2K, has captured fewer than 600 of them.

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States has been rebuilt after a 14-month, $815 million project. The APS is a synchrotron, a machine used to study the atomic structure of materials and molecules. The new APS is expected to be the world's brightest x-ray synchrotron, providing scientists with brighter and more laserlike x-ray beams for their research. The rebuild involved implementing a new scheme called "swap out" to replenish the electron beam, which generates the x-rays, with picosecond precision. The APS's performance characteristics are considered to be ahead of the curve, and it is seen as a pioneering contribution to science and technology. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the budgetary constraints faced by U.S. particle physicists, as they unveil a plan for the next decade with a conservative approach. Topics discussed include the completion of existing projects, support for ongoing experiments, and prioritization of smaller-scale initiatives, such as detecting dark matter particles and studying dark energy.

The article presents the discussion on quantum sensors solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries. Topics include detecting the granularity of the subatomic realm where matter and energy coming in tiny packets called quanta; detecting a single quantum particle such as a photon or an energetic electron; and device shielding from light and other forms of radiation.

The article focuses on the unexpected halt of the CMBS4 project by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during a meeting of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA), citing infrastructure challenges at the South Pole as the primary reason, disrupting plans to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation and potentially unravel the mysteries of inflation in the early universe.

A team of theorists claims to have derived Stephen Hawking's famous equation for the entropy of a black hole from the fundamental definition of entropy. The equation predicts that a black hole has entropy, which is typically associated with disorder. The researchers used a simple method involving shells of dust to count the microstates of a black hole and arrived at the Bekenstein-Hawking formula. While some experts find the argument convincing, others are skeptical and believe that the method used may have produced the correct answer through an artifact of their technique. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on President Biden's 7.3 trillion U.S. dollar spending blueprint, particularly in research funding, where despite the inclusion of priorities such as AI ethics and cancer research, the proposed budgets for various agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Department of Energy (DOE) reflect minimal increases or even cuts.

Researchers have developed swimming microrobots that are smaller than grains of sand and have enough computing power to perform simple tasks autonomously. These tiny robots, created by electrical engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, are a step closer to the science fiction vision of robots swimming through our blood to deliver drugs or hunt down pathogens. The robots are powered by a solar cell and can swim in a solution of dilute hydrogen peroxide. They have a simple temperature sensor and can communicate the temperature back to researchers by dancing in a pattern. While this is a significant advancement, the robots still need to navigate the more complex 3D real world to be more useful. The researchers also have ambitions for the robots to communicate with each other and function cooperatively. [Extracted from the article]

How does a physicist cook a chicken? Step One: Assume a spherical chicken.... That lab-bench chestnut overstates the case. Physicists may reflexively focus on abstract principles and overlook niggling details, [...]

The article offers information on the debate among cosmologists regarding the rate of the universe's expansion, known as the Hubble constant. Topics include observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirming the discrepancy in the Hubble constant; the prevailing Lambda-cold dark matter (Lambda-CDM) model; and proposed solutions involving new physics and early-time scenarios to explain the disparity.

The article focuses on the Department of Energy's (DOE) plan to address the increasing data output from its facilities by building a High-Performance Data Facility at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia.

UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA -- The gizmo could be mistaken for an artifact from a science museum or a custom-made part for your old VW Beetle. An aluminum cylinder 13 millimeters [...]

At an age when most boys would rather chase girls, Albert Einstein daydreamed of chasing light. When he was about 16 years old, Einstein later recalled, he realized that if [...]

ASPEN, COLORADO -- Twenty years ago, this chic playground for skiers and celebrities gave birth to a scientific revolution. An abstruse mathematical discovery made here sparked the explosion of 'string [...]

Many foreign-born scientists who succeed in the United States are helping those they left behind--without leaving their new home Geneticist Bruce Lahn has studied and worked in the United States [...]

ITHACA, NEW YORK--Perforating the woolly hum of electronics, a voice crackles over the intercom: 'Tuning is complete. Experimenters please acknowledge. Tuning is complete.' In a windowless, slightly disheveled room that [...]

The article informs about the study of black holes as Albert Einstein's theory predicts. Topics include challenging astrophysicists' assumptions about how black holes form and influence their surroundings; deviation from general relativity cornerstone of modern physics, quantum mechanics; and how a spinning black hole of a given mass would warp and twist spacetime in general relativity.

In science as in movies, a sequel can be just as compelling as the original tale. Eight years ago, atomic physicists wowed the world by coaxing thousands of ultracold atoms [...]

To learn about Oppenheimer the scientist, Science spoke with David C. Cassidy, a physicist and historian emeritus at Hofstra University. NEWS This week, the much anticipated movie Oppenheimer hits theaters, giving famed filmmaker Christopher Nolan's take on the theoretical physicist who during World War II led the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb. [Extracted from the article]

NEWS For decades, the South Pole has been a wonderland for physicists. An $840 million collaboration between NSF and the Department of Energy, CMB-S4 would erect two 6-meter microwave telescopes in Chile and one 5-meter and nine 0.5-meter telescopes at the South Pole. In a 12 June "Dear Colleague" letter, the National Science Foundation (NSF) told researchers that, after the pandemic lockdown, it must attend to a backlog of maintenance at multiple Antarctic sites. [Extracted from the article]

Physicists think they can make an x-ray source 10 billion times brighter than today's best, opening new horizons in biology, chemistry, materials science, and physics. But to do it, they have to pull off a grand trick without mirrors., Some researchers are never satisfied with what they've got. In the past 2 decades, physicists have perfected the art of extracting intense beams of x-rays from synchrotrons--huge ring-shaped accelerators with [...]

It's 2 a.m. and you're at your computer typing up that 20-page report that's due in 6 hours. You're on your eighth cup of coffee and your fourth candy bar, [...]

The article offers information on challenges for developers of quantum computer to controlling the noise that impacted the intertwined quantum bits. Topics discussed include information on quantum computer from Google which marked the dawn of the age of quantum computing; information on encryption systems which secure internet communications; and use of qubits which made of tiny resonating circuits of superconducting metal etched into microchips.

The article offers information on the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science. It further mentions National Spherical Torus Experiment's (NSTX) magnet coils creating fields; views of Joseph Winston, technician at the PPPL, on issue; and plans of U.S. to build a prototype power plant in the 2030 as a successor to ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).

The article focuses on the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier for their work in capturing the movement of electrons in atoms and molecules using attosecond laser pulses.

Just how long does a cluster of protons and neutrons have to stick together to count as an atomic nucleus? They assumed that nitrogen-9 would split into a proton and carbon-8, an unbound nucleus that decays to two protons and beryllium-6. They combed the data for events that contained precisely the fragments a nitrogen-9 should spawn: five protons and an alpha particle (two protons bound to two neutrons). [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has begun a new competition for the contract to run the country's only dedicated particle physics laboratory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which failed an annual DOE performance review. The reasons include cost increases and delays in a huge new neutrino experiment. DOE has solicited letters of interest and will issue a request for formal proposals in the summer of 2023.