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Joseph Shavit

Unraveling a mystery surrounding cosmic matter

UC Riverside physicist and colleague invoke the cosmological collider to explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates the universe

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Could 'Information' be the fifth form of matter in the universe?

This would be a eureka moment because it would change physics as we know it and expand our understanding of the universe.

Joseph Shavit

The next generation of robots will be shape-shifters

Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way.

Joseph Shavit

The true nature of dark matter and ordinary matter interactions

A new study suggests the existence of a direct interaction between the elementary particles that make up the dark matter and ordinary matter

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For the first time ever, scientists create matter directly from collisions of light

Nuclear scientists have used a powerful particle accelerator to create matter directly from collisions of light.

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Matter and anti-matter discovery could lead to new physics

The collaboration has made the most precise comparison yet between protons and antiprotons and whether or not they behave in the same ways.

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Physicists have figured out how to make antimatter out of light

A new study by scientists has demonstrated how researchers may be able to create an accelerating jet of antimatter from light.

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Amount of information in visible universe quantified

Researchers present a numerical estimate for the amount of encoded information in all the visible matter in the universe.

Joseph Shavit

Two-dimensional supersolid quantum gas produced in the laboratory for the first time

Researchers led by Francesca Ferlaino have now created for the first time this fascinating property along two dimensions.