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Researchers Reveal Secrets of Metamorphosis of Moon’s Water Ice

Using data gathered by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system’s coldest regions—a permanently shadowed crater on the moon. They have explained how energetic particles penetrating lunar soil can create molecular hydrogen from water ice. The finding provides insight into how radiation can change the chemistry of water ice throughout the solar system.

20 Jun 2013

Massive Particle Storage Ring’s 3,200-Mile Journey Set to Begin in June 22

How do you move a 50-foot-wide, circular electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece without flexing or twisting it? Very, very carefully.

20 Jun 2013

CQT to Bring 2015 International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy to Singapore

CQT will bring the International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS) to Singapore in 2015. The decision was announced at this year's ICOLS meeting in Berkeley, United States on 14 June. The conference will see between 200 and 300 scientific experts converging on the country two years from now.

18 Jun 2013

Astronomers Confirm How Stellar-Mass Black Holes Produce Highest-Energy Light

A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.

17 Jun 2013

Researchers Measure Quantum-Mechanical Magnetism in Copper Sulfate Crystals

Scientists at EPFL have made a breakthrough into the properties of quantum magnets that can impact our understanding of fundamental physics.

17 Jun 2013

Extrasolar Planet Forming Quite Far From its Star

A team of researchers has discovered evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from its star—about twice the distance Pluto is from our Sun. The planet lies inside a dusty, gaseous disk around a small red dwarf TW Hydrae, which is only about 55% of the mass of the Sun. The discovery adds to the ever-increasing variety of planetary systems in the Milky Way. The research is published in the Astrophysical Journal.

15 Jun 2013

Physics Nobel Laureates Tell Their Story in New Book on Superconductivity

The work of ten great scientists is presented in the new book Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers – Ten Physics Nobel Laureates Tell Their Story. The author Kristian Fossheim describes who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history.

15 Jun 2013

Study Confirms How Stellar-Mass Black Holes Produce High-Energy Light

A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.

15 Jun 2013

Hungarian Data Centre Inaugurated by CERN and Wigner Research Centre for Physics

Geneva 13 June 2013. CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics2 today inaugurated the Hungarian data centre in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resources. About 500 servers, 20,000 computing cores, and 5.5 Petabytes of storage are already operational at the site.

15 Jun 2013

Compelling Evidence of Planet Forming at a Great Distance from its Star

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star, a finding that may challenge current theories about planet formation.

15 Jun 2013