by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 26, 2025 | General Physics, PHYS.ORG, Physics
Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to be massless by the standard model of particle physics, yet their observed oscillations suggest that they do in fact have a mass, which is very low. A further characteristic of these particles is that they only...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 26, 2025 | Health Informatics, MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Humans can remember various types of information, including facts, dates, events and even intricate narratives. Understanding how meaningful stories are stored in people’s memory has been a key objective of many cognitive psychology studies.
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 26, 2025 | PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
Over the past few years, researchers have developed various quantum technologies, alternatives to classical devices that operate by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics. These technologies have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts in...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 26, 2025 | Health Informatics, MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex, the network of regions in the brain’s outer layer...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Sep 26, 2025 | Optics & Photonics, PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called “superfluid.” Superfluids, such as ultracold atomic gases or helium-4 below specific temperatures, are phases of matter characterized by flowing...
