Category: Physics
Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands Submarine Optical Fiber Connection (KLI Project) | Low-Temperature Thermal Desalination (LTTD) Plant
PM inaugurated Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands Submarine Optical Fiber Connection (KLI Project).
Radiocarbon Dating
Article in the Hindu – What is radiocarbon dating? | Explained
Nuclear Reactors
China launched world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor.
1000-qubit quantum chip – Condor
IBM released first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip named Condor has superconducting qubits arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
Lightning
Death toll due to lightning strikes rises to 24 in Gujarat.
Nanophotonic Electron Accelerator | Particle Accelerator
Researchers have successfully activated the world’s smallest particle accelerator, called a nanophotonic electron accelerator (NEA).
2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Quantum Dots
The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
2023 Nobel Prize in physics – Attosecond Physics
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, for their “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
Antimatter
For the first time, scientists have observed antimatter particles falling downwards due to the effect of gravity, Europe’s physics lab CERN announced.
Pines’ demon
An elusive particle proposed in 1956 by theoretical physicist David Pines has just been discovered
Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant
The third unit of the indigenously developed 700-megawatt electric (MWe) nuclear power reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP3) in Gujarat has commenced operations at full capacity.