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LIGO to Present Lecture on How to Catch Einstein’s Wave and See Black Holes

How is a worldwide community of scientists using 16 kilometres of wide vacuum tubes to catch “ripples of space-time”? In an entirely new means of cosmic exploration, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration are trying to detect gravitational waves – a phenomenon theorized by Einstein almost a century ago. But what will this new window to the universe mean?

17 Jan 2013

New Observations Reveal Different Behavior in Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered how supermassive black holes grow - and it's not what was expected.

17 Jan 2013

EFDA Publishes Roadmap to Realisation of Fusion Energy

The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) has published a roadmap which outlines how to supply fusion electricity to the grid by 2050. The roadmap to the realisation of fusion energy breaks the quest for fusion energy down into eight missions. For each mission, it reviews the current status of research, identifies open issues, proposes a research and development programme and estimates the required resources. It points out the needs to intensify industrial involvement and to seek all opportunities for collaboration outside Europe.

17 Jan 2013

Scientists Verify Intrinsic Behavior of Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

When it comes to high-temperature superconductors, a class of materials called cuprates is king, and it is science's ongoing quest to determine their exact physical subtleties. Cornell physicists and materials scientists have now verified that cuprates respond differently when adding electrons versus removing them, resolving a central issue about the compounds' most fundamental properties.

16 Jan 2013

Nuclear Astrophysicists Shed New Light on Exploding Stars

An international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae.

16 Jan 2013

Canada Foundation for Innovation Awards Grant for Research on Quantum Materials

University of British Columbia research in areas ranging from astronomy to cancer, quantum materials to plant evolution, received a $22.7M boost from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

16 Jan 2013

Canadian Scientists to Play a Leading Role in Higgs-like Particle Research

The federal government through one of its research-funding agencies, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), is investing about $8.7 million in new funding in two major national research projects involving Simon Fraser University.

16 Jan 2013

Tecnalia to Develop Innovative Offshore Wind Turbine Based on Superconducting Generator

The project aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions by designing an innovative, lightweight, robust and reliable 10 MW class offshore wind turbine based on a superconducting (SC) generator, taking into account all the essential aspects of electric conversion, integration and manufacturability.

16 Jan 2013

Electron-Molecule Collisions Could Help Predict Operations in ITER Fusion Reactor

An international team of physicists has calculated the efficiency of a reaction involving an incoming electron kicking out an electron from the metal beryllium (Be) or its hydrogen compound molecules, in an article about to be published in EPJ D.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 16 Jan 2013

Pulsed-Laser Deposition Employed to Produce High-Field Iron-Based Superconductors

The road to a sustainably powered future may be paved with superconductors. When chilled to frigid temperatures hundreds of degrees Celsius below zero, these remarkable materials are singularly capable of perfectly conducting electric current. To meet growing global energy demands, the entire energy infrastructure would benefit tremendously from incorporating new electricity generation, storage, and delivery technologies that use superconducting wires. But strict limits on temperature, high manufacturing costs, and the dampening effects of high-magnetic fields currently impede widespread adoption.

11 Jan 2013