Currently, the most important trends in the energy sector can be described as the transition to alternative energies, the end of fossil fuel burning and the transition to electric mobility. Laymen and experts have a wide range of opinions concerning this topic: some people say that renewable energies are a
Also known as standby power, phantom load is the energy that’s drained by devices even when you aren’t using them. By equipping individual electronic devices with neutrinovoltaic electricity generators, the Neutrino Energy Group will eliminate this unnecessary burden on contemporary power grids. The Inconvenient Truth of Phantom Load Despite regulations that
All of nature springs from a handful of components — the fundamental particles — that interact with one another in only a few different ways. In the 1970s, physicists developed a set of equations describing these particles and interactions. Together, the equations formed a succinct theory now known as the
As U.S. particle physicists contemplate their future, they find themselves victims of their own surprising success. Seven years ago, the often fractious community hammered out its current research road map and rallied around it. Thanks to that unity—and generous budgets—the Department of Energy (DOE), the field’s main U.S. sponsor, has
Researchers build circuit that harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace batteries. A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current. “An
Scientists often refer to the neutrino as the „ghost particle.“ Neutrinos were one of the most abundant particles at the origin of the universe and remain so today. Fusion reactions in the sun produce vast armies of them, which pour down on the Earth every day. Trillions pass through our
For over a decade, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of fast radio bursts, brief blasts of radio waves that come mostly from distant galaxies. During that same period, scientists have also detected high-energy neutrinos, ghostly particles from outside the Milky Way whose origins are also unknown. A new theory
Jim Siegrist from the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, charts how future machines will explore new frontiers in particle physics Particle physics is global. Addressing the full breadth of the field’s most urgent scientific questions requires expertise from around the world. The timeline for developing a
Tufts has been chosen to participate in the recently established National Science Foundation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Fundamental Interactions. The AI Institute is one of five announced by the NSF on August 26; the institutes are being established to secure the nation’s leadership in the field by accelerating research,
For decades, the neutrino was among the most puzzling and elusive of cosmic particles. It took more than two decades from when it was first predicted to when it was finally detected, and they came along with a bunch of surprises that make them unique among all the particles that