Alex Epshtein

1 month ago | phys.org | Alex Epshtein

Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? The AEgIS collaboration, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt's team from the research neutron source FRM II at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has developed a detector using modified mobile camera sensors to image, in real time, the points where antimatter annihilates with matter.

1 month ago | home.web.cern.ch | Alex Epshtein

Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? The AEgIS collaboration, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt’s team from the research neutron source FRM II at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has developed a detector using modified mobile camera sensors to image in real time the points where antimatter annihilates with matter.

1 month ago | phys.org | Alex Epshtein

In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly—a strikingly large imbalance between charged and neutral kaons in argon–scandium collisions. He found that, instead of being produced in roughly equal numbers, charged kaons were produced 18.4% more often than neutral kaons.

1 month ago | home.cern | Alex Epshtein

In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analysing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly – a strikingly large imbalance between charged and neutral kaons in argon–scandium collisions. He found that, instead of being produced in roughly equal numbers, charged kaons were produced 18.4% more often than neutral kaons.

Jul 22, 2024 | science.org | Alex Epshtein

The ability to regenerate body parts is remarkably common across the animal kingdom. Cut off the leg of an axolotl, the arm of a starfish, or the tail of a salamander, and all will regrow in a month or two. Now, researchers have found that these powers trace back to shared, ancient genetic roots. The newly sequenced genome of the brittle star, a particularly impressive regenerator, reveals it uses many of the same genes to regrow its limbs as do distantly related animals.