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Superconductivity Researcher Honored with UF Teacher-Scholar of the Year Award

Physics professor Peter Hirschfeld has been awarded the University of Florida Teacher-Scholar of the Year award for 2012-2013.

6 Apr 2013

Data on Anti-Matter in Cosmic Rays Remain Ambiguous Even After AMS-02 Detector Measurements

Scientists have been trying already for years to resolve the issue whether dark matter really exists, and if so what are properties of its constituent particles.

6 Apr 2013

New Audio Recreation of the Big Bang Based on Cosmic Microwave Background Data

A decade ago, spurred by a question for a fifth-grade science project, University of Washington physicist John Cramer devised an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.

5 Apr 2013

NOvA Experiment to Measure Neutrino Energies Begins Recording 3D Images

Taking data from cosmic rays for the first time and moving closer to the day later this year when physicists can begin measuring neutrino energies, the international NOvA experiment -- with the fingerprints of Indiana University researchers all over it -- began recording its first three-dimensional images last week.

5 Apr 2013

Superconductivity Researchers Discover ‘Schizophrenic’ Material

Rice University physicists on the hunt for the origins of high-temperature superconductivity have published new findings this week about a material that becomes “schizophrenic” — simultaneously exhibiting the characteristics of both a metallic conductor and an insulator.

5 Apr 2013

Novel Method Can Shed Light on ‘High-Temperature’ Superconductivity

Superconductors can radically change energy management as we know it, but most are commercially unusable because they only work close to absolute zero. A research group at EPFL has now published an innovative approach that may help us understand and use superconductivity at more realistic temperatures.

5 Apr 2013

Hubble Discovers Farthest Supernova That Exploded over 10 Billion Years Ago

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago.

5 Apr 2013

Gordon Supercomputer Processes Massive Particle Detector Data to Find Elusive Higgs Particle

Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a project to help define the future research agenda for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

5 Apr 2013

Star Formation Found Perilously Close to Supermassive Black Hole

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. If confirmed, this would be the first time that star formation was observed so close to the galactic center.

5 Apr 2013

Researchers Employ Quantum 'Tricks' with Ultrashort Laser Pulses to Make Magnetic Switches Think Ultra-Fast

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, and the University of Crete in Greece have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory technologies.

5 Apr 2013