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Van Allen Radiation Belts Store Mysterious Zone of High-Energy Electrons

U.S. researchers, including a trio from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have witnessed the mysterious appearance of a relatively long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth's Van Allen radiation belts.

5 Mar 2013

Charge-Density Waves Not the Mechanism behind High-Temperature Superconductivity

Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electric current to pass with perfect efficiency through materials chilled to subzero temperatures, and it may play an essential role in revolutionizing the entire electricity chain, from generation to transmission and grid-scale storage.

5 Mar 2013

IU Quantum Hadrodynamics Physicist to be Honored with One-Day Symposium

The late Indiana University physicist Brian David Serot -- a four-time winner of the IU Trustees' Teaching Award still remembered for his calm rationality and encyclopedic knowledge of the field -- will be honored with a one-day symposium March 6 at IU's Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter.

4 Mar 2013

Researchers Overcome Important Challenges of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work both overcomes some important challenges of Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle and also is applicable to qubits, the building blocks of quantum information theory.

4 Mar 2013

Artificially Engineered Multilayer Material Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Superconductivity Research

A multi-university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real-world applications.

4 Mar 2013

Discovery of Quarks Changes Approach to Particle Physics

Honeywell brought Professor Jerome I. Friedman , Nobel laureate in physics, to address and interact with the students and faculty of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC) in Mexicali, Mexico, as part of its global Honeywell Initiative for Science & Engineering (HISE) program today.

2 Mar 2013

Updates on CERN’s New Particle Discovery to Be Presented at Moriond Conference

Geneva 1 March 2013. Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are set to present their latest results at the Moriond conference, which begins tomorrow in the Italian town of La Thuile, and runs until 16 March.

2 Mar 2013

Third “Storage Ring” Radiation Belt Found Wrapped Around the Earth

With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced the revision of a 50-year-old theory about the structure of the radiation belts that wrap around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads.

2 Mar 2013

Black Hole Collision May Have Caused Violent Celestial Fireworks in the Galactic Center

These days the core of the Milky Way galaxy is a pretty tame place...cosmically speaking. The galactic black hole at the center is a sleeping giant. Existing stars are peacefully circling. Although conditions are favorable, there doesn’t even seem to be much new star formation going on.

2 Mar 2013

Giant Planet Forms in Ring of Dust around Young Star

An international team led by Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) has studied the disc of gas and dust that surrounds the young star HD 100546, a relatively nearby neighbour located 335 light-years from Earth. They were surprised to find what seems to be a planet in the process of being formed, still embedded in the disc of material around the young star. The candidate planet would be a gas giant similar to Jupiter.

1 Mar 2013