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Some Globular Clusters Still Young at Heart

Globular clusters are spherical collections of stars, tightly bound to each other by their mutual gravity. Relics of the early years of the Universe, with ages of typically 12-13 billion years (the Big Bang took place 13.7 billion years ago), there are roughly 150 globular clusters in the Milky Way and they contain many of our galaxy's oldest stars.

21 Dec 2012

Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Spin Liquid

Experiments demonstrate ‘quantum spin liquid,’ which could have applications in new computer memory storage.

21 Dec 2012

Research on Superconducting Wire in Wind Energy Project Receives Additional Funding

A University of Houston engineering researcher and his team have received additional funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a wind energy project that involves using superconducting wire to generate and transport electricity.

21 Dec 2012

Dual-Core Nanomechanical Optical Fibers with Precise Mechanical Motion Capability

Optical fibers –the backbone of the Internet–carry movies, messages, and music at the speed of light. But for all their efficiency, these ultrathin strands of pristine glass must connect to sluggish signal switches, routers, and buffers in order to transmit data. Hoping to do away with these information speed bumps, researchers have developed a new, dual-core optical fiber that can perform the same functions just by applying a miniscule amount of mechanical pressure.

20 Dec 2012

Evaporative Cooling Method May Help Advance Quantum Simulators

Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by which a hot cup of coffee cools.

20 Dec 2012

Researchers Question 40 Year-Old Theory on Glitching of Pulsars

Researchers from the University of Southampton have called in to question a 40 year-old theory explaining the periodic speeding up or 'glitching' of pulsars.

20 Dec 2012

Antimony Microelectrodes Can Help Understand Nature of Electrochemical and Corrosion Processes

For several decades antimony electrodes have been used to measure the acidity/basicity – and so to determine the pH value. Unfortunately, they allow for measuring pH changes of solutions only at a certain distance from electrodes or corroding metals.

19 Dec 2012

New Study Indicates Black Holes May be Bigger than Previously Thought

Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

19 Dec 2012

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration to Resolve Dark Matter Puzzle

This fall, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and the National Academy of Sciences organized a colloquium that brought together more than 100 cosmologists, particle physicists and observational astrophysicists – three fields now united in the hunt to determine what is dark matter.

19 Dec 2012

UBC Physicists Discover Higgs-like Particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

UBC physicists and astronomers are part of three of the top four breakthroughs of 2012 in Physics World’s annual accounting of the greatest achievements in the field.

19 Dec 2012