https://cluster-site.onrender.com/tags/physics/ Recent content in Physics on Tenu Tech Brief Hugo -- 0.146.0 en-us Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:52:24 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/caught-doping-going-to-extreme-measures-to-detect-ultraviolet-photons/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:04:41 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/caught-doping-going-to-extreme-measures-to-detect-ultraviolet-photons/ • Caught Doping: Going to Extreme Measures to Detect Ultraviolet Photons byChris Layden| Feb 26, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:High Efficiency UV/Optical/NIR Detecto https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/shaken-and-stirred-putting-the-local-group-on-a-weighing-scale./ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:44:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/shaken-and-stirred-putting-the-local-group-on-a-weighing-scale./ • Shaken and Stirred: Putting the Local Group on a weighing scale • byNeel Kolhe| Feb 25, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:Impact of merger histories on the timing 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00:39:48 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/why-do-curling-stones-slide-across-ice-the-way-they-do/ • Curling stones weigh ~19 kg, made of granite, slide across pebbled ice toward target. • Players apply spin; clockwise spin makes stone curl right, counterintuitive to everyday ph https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/observing-the-universes-teenage-angst-with-dropout-galaxies-and-cmb-lensing/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/observing-the-universes-teenage-angst-with-dropout-galaxies-and-cmb-lensing/ • Observing the Universe’s Teenage Angst with Dropout Galaxies and CMB Lensing byBen Sherwin| Feb 23, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:Cosmology with dropout selection: https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/monika-emmanuelle-kazi-selected-for-the-second-edition-of-the-resonance-residency/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:30:54 +0000 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18:29:21 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/cosmic-fishbones-strange-radio-streaks-behind-a-racing-pulsar/ • Cosmic Fishbones: Strange Radio Streaks Behind a Racing Pulsar bySandy Chiu| Feb 21, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:Radio streaks in the Lighthouse Nebula discovere https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/hilumi-lhc-full-scale-tests-start/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:36:59 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/hilumi-lhc-full-scale-tests-start/ • Voir en HiLumi LHC: full-scale tests start Scientists at CERN have triggered the complex cooldown of a 95-m-long test stand that reproduces the underground configuration of innov https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/theres-a-great-wave-rippling-through-our-galaxy/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:40:09 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/theres-a-great-wave-rippling-through-our-galaxy/ • There’s a great wave rippling through our galaxy byJulie Kiel Holm| Feb 20, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|1 comment Title:The 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using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that tr https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/protons-width-measured-to-unparalleled-precision-narrowing-the-path-to-new-physics/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:00:01 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/protons-width-measured-to-unparalleled-precision-narrowing-the-path-to-new-physics/ • German physicists measured proton width with unprecedented precision using hydrogen atom transition. • Max Planck Institute researchers leveraged unexplored energy-level transiti https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/weathering-a-stellar-temper-tantrum-how-space-weather-complicates-exoplanet-habitability/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:35:32 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/weathering-a-stellar-temper-tantrum-how-space-weather-complicates-exoplanet-habitability/ • Weathering a Stellar Temper Tantrum: How space weather complicates exoplanet habitability byNathan Whitsett| Feb 16, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:Detection of a g https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/rules-applicable-to-members-of-personnel-residing-in-switzerland-at-the-end-of-their-contract/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:26:38 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/rules-applicable-to-members-of-personnel-residing-in-switzerland-at-the-end-of-their-contract/ • Voir en Rules applicable to members of personnel residing in Switzerland at the end of their contract 16 February, 2026 | ByHost State Relations service The Permanent Mission of https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/guest-the-on-again-off-again-lives-of-intermittent-pulsars/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:13:22 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/guest-the-on-again-off-again-lives-of-intermittent-pulsars/ • Guest: The on-again, off-again lives of intermittent pulsars byGuest| Feb 14, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments This guest post was written by Tibby Finn Leeming. • Tibby is https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/kim-burtnyk-on-scientific-communication/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/kim-burtnyk-on-scientific-communication/ • Burtnyk worked at LIGO, witnessed gravitational wave detection. • Explores how to explain complex science to public. • Uses storytelling and clear language. • Balances technical https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/gpt-5.2-derives-a-new-result-in-theoretical-physics/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/gpt-5.2-derives-a-new-result-in-theoretical-physics/ • A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators. https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/machine-learning-to-reveal-more-about-lhc-particle-collisions/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:58:37 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/machine-learning-to-reveal-more-about-lhc-particle-collisions/ • Voir en Machine learning to reveal more about LHC particle collisions The CMS Collaboration demonstrates that machine learning can outperform traditional methods in the full reco https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/revision-of-oc-11-a-modernised-data-privacy-framework-for-cern/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:01:35 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/revision-of-oc-11-a-modernised-data-privacy-framework-for-cern/ • Voir en Revision of OC 11: a modernised data privacy framework for CERN 12 February, 2026 | ByOffice of Data Privacy Following the Director-General’s approval on 17 December 2025 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/all-aboard-the-arks-survey/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:47:39 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/all-aboard-the-arks-survey/ • All Aboard the ARK(S Survey)! • byJoe Williams| Feb 12, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) I: Motivation https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-clumps-and-inward-migration/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:08:53 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-clumps-and-inward-migration/ • Should I Stay or Should I Go? • Clumps and Inward Migration byNiloofar Sharei| Feb 11, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title: Clump-like Structures in High-Redshift Galaxi https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/operational-circular-no.-11-rev.1-the-processing-of-personal-data-at-cern/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:33:42 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/operational-circular-no.-11-rev.1-the-processing-of-personal-data-at-cern/ • Voir en Operational Circular No. • 11 (Rev.1) - The Processing of Personal Data at CERN 11 February, 2026 | ByHR department Operational Circular No. • 1), entitled ‘The processin https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/a-simpler-way-to-extend-maternity-leave/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:25:11 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/a-simpler-way-to-extend-maternity-leave/ • Voir en A simpler way to extend maternity leave 11 February, 2026 | ByHR department Supporting parenthood is important for our Organization and we aim to make the administrative https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/accelerator-report-the-accelerator-complex-is-gradually-waking-up-from-the-winter-shutdown/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:07:34 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/accelerator-report-the-accelerator-complex-is-gradually-waking-up-from-the-winter-shutdown/ • Voir en Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex is gradually waking up from the winter shutdown Beam commissioning is progressing well in CERN’s accelerator complex, with bea https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/cern-launches-kenora-a-new-era-in-occupational-health-management/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:30:19 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/cern-launches-kenora-a-new-era-in-occupational-health-management/ • Voir en CERN launches KENORA: a new era in occupational health management 12 February, 2026 | ByMedical Service On 12 January 2026, CERN’s Medical Service implemented KENORA, a n https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/where-have-all-the-agn-gone/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/where-have-all-the-agn-gone/ • Where have all the AGN gone? • byMargaret Verrico| Feb 10, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:No evidence for excess AGN activity in recently quenched massive galaxies https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/celebrating-women-in-science-day-2026-at-cern/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:48:38 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/celebrating-women-in-science-day-2026-at-cern/ • Voir en Celebrating Women in Science Day 2026 at CERN CERN features six scientists for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 11 February, 2026 | ByBianca Moisa From https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/primordial-black-holes-lensing-my-andromeda-galaxy-it-could-be-more-common-than-you-think/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:10:46 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/primordial-black-holes-lensing-my-andromeda-galaxy-it-could-be-more-common-than-you-think/ • Primordial Black Holes lensing my Andromeda Galaxy? • It could be more common than you think byAnavi Uppal| Feb 9, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:Microlensing const https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/when-space-plasmas-collide/ Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:36:28 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/when-space-plasmas-collide/ • Space is dominated by plasma, the most common state of matter in the cosmos. • Modeling plasma is tough: fluid dynamics, turbulence, and Maxwell’s equations all intertwine. • The https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/is-that-a-galaxy-like-star-cluster-or-a-cluster-like-dwarf-galaxy/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:21:22 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/is-that-a-galaxy-like-star-cluster-or-a-cluster-like-dwarf-galaxy/ • Is that a galaxy-like star cluster? • Or a cluster-like dwarf galaxy? • byHillary Diane Andales| Feb 6, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:Eridanus III and DELVE 1: Car https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/distant-galaxies-dead-or-in-disguise/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:56:35 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/distant-galaxies-dead-or-in-disguise/ • Distant Galaxies: Dead or in Disguise? • byLucie Rowland| Feb 5, 2026 |Daily Paper Summaries|0 comments Title:MAGAZ3NE: Dust Deficiency in Ultramassive Quiescent Galaxies at 3 < https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/aes-andes-announces-cancellation-of-inna-the-industrial-complex-planned-near-paranal/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/aes-andes-announces-cancellation-of-inna-the-industrial-complex-planned-near-paranal/ • Press Release AES Andes announces cancellation of INNA, the industrial complex planned near Paranal 2 February 2026 AES Andes announced that it will step back from the megaprojec https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/muons-emblems-of-discovery/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:43:04 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/muons-emblems-of-discovery/ • Every minute, countless muons rain down from space, passing through everything-including us-before penetrating deep below the Earth’s surface. • The discovery of these particles, https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/astronomers-surprised-by-mysterious-shock-wave-around-dead-star/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/astronomers-surprised-by-mysterious-shock-wave-around-dead-star/ • Press Release Astronomers surprised by mysterious shock wave around dead star 12 January 2026 Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/construction-begins-on-the-first-and-largest-gamma-ray-observatory-in-chile/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/construction-begins-on-the-first-and-largest-gamma-ray-observatory-in-chile/ • Press Release Construction begins on the first and largest gamma-ray observatory in Chile 18 December 2025 Yesterday, a groundbreaking ceremony for the CTAO’s southern array faci https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/curiouser-and-curiouser-a-riddle-at-the-alice-detector/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:37:43 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/curiouser-and-curiouser-a-riddle-at-the-alice-detector/ • It was 2023, and Sarah Porteboeuf’s fridge calendar had ‘heavy-ion run’ scribbled in big red letters across the end of September and most of October. • ‘My family knew that this https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/photons-light-the-way/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:19:18 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/photons-light-the-way/ • Photons, the fundamental particles of the electromagnetic field that permeates the universe, don’t have mass. • They don’t have charge. • Because they travel at the cosmic speed https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/dark-matter-a-worldwide-search/ Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:35:56 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/dark-matter-a-worldwide-search/ • Something is out there, but it’s also right here. • As far as scientists know, dark matter passes through us as we also pass through it on Earth’s journey through the cosmos. • D https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/unique-shape-of-stars-explosion-revealed-just-a-day-after-detection/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/unique-shape-of-stars-explosion-revealed-just-a-day-after-detection/ • Press Release Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection 12 November 2025 Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telesco https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/laser-trial-run-kickstarts-new-era-of-interferometry/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/laser-trial-run-kickstarts-new-era-of-interferometry/ • Press Release Laser trial run kickstarts new era of interferometry 10 November 2025 Last week, four lasers were projected into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/new-image-captures-spooky-bat-signal-in-the-sky/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/new-image-captures-spooky-bat-signal-in-the-sky/ • Press Release New image captures spooky bat signal in the sky 31 October 2025 A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site i https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/andreas-kaufer-appointed-as-next-eso-director-general/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:30:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/andreas-kaufer-appointed-as-next-eso-director-general/ • Press Release Andreas Kaufer appointed as next ESO Director General 27 October 2025 The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has appointed Andreas Kaufer to be the https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/six-billion-tonnes-a-second-rogue-planet-found-growing-at-record-rate/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/six-billion-tonnes-a-second-rogue-planet-found-growing-at-record-rate/ • Press Release Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate 2 October 2025 Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue pl https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/remote-eyes-on-the-sky-inside-slacs-rubin-control-room/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:50:24 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/remote-eyes-on-the-sky-inside-slacs-rubin-control-room/ • It’s April 2025, and the NSF-DOE Vera C. • Rubin Observatory control room at the Department of Energy’sSLAC National Accelerator Laboratoryis buzzing with activity. • On the Menl https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/dune-experiment-prepares-for-supernova-watch/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/dune-experiment-prepares-for-supernova-watch/ • At this very moment, somewhere in the universe, a star is about to die. • 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Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/impossible-higgs-boson-measurement-within-reach-thanks-to-a-detour/ • Physicist Huilin Qu vividly remembers the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that helps explain the origin of mass. • The spokespeople https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/local-photographer-captures-physics-history-in-the-black-hills/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:54:18 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/local-photographer-captures-physics-history-in-the-black-hills/ • Dale Carter, Black Hills photographer, captured 2002 Grizzly Gulch wildfire from above, front-page coverage. • He photographed scientists at Lead’s 2001 conference, documenting g https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/a-quantum-leap-for-antimatter-measurements/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:08:41 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/a-quantum-leap-for-antimatter-measurements/ • BASE collaboration trapped an antiproton, oscillating between two quantum states for nearly a minute. • First demonstration of an antimatter qubit, opening doors for precise matt https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/professor-emeritus-daniel-kleppner-highly-influential-atomic-physicist-dies-at-92/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:45:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/professor-emeritus-daniel-kleppner-highly-influential-atomic-physicist-dies-at-92/ • Daniel Kleppner, MIT professor emeritus, passed away at 92, leaving legacy in atomic physics. • Co‑invented hydrogen maser atomic clock, advancing precision timekeeping and GPS t https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/physicists-measure-a-key-aspect-of-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/physicists-measure-a-key-aspect-of-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene/ • Superfluid stiffness quantifies how easily electron pairs flow without resistance. • MIT and Harvard scientists directly measured this property in 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