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Cassini Captures Image of Ice-Giant Planet Uranus Beyond Saturn's Rings

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured its first-ever image of the pale blue ice-giant planet Uranus in the distance beyond Saturn's rings.

5 May 2014

Novel Method for Accurate Measurement of Surface Temperature of Nanoscale Objects

Temperature measurements in our daily life are typically performed by bringing a thermometer in contact with the object to be measured. However, measuring the temperature of nanoscale objects is a much more tricky task due to their size - up to a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

5 May 2014

Researchers Report Detailed Calculations of Dynamics of Positronium Bose-Einstein Condensate

Twenty years ago, Philip Platzman and Allen Mills, Jr. at Bell Laboratories proposed that a gamma-ray laser could be made from a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of positronium, the simplest atom made of both matter and antimatter. That was a year before a BEC of any kind of atom was available in any laboratory.

2 May 2014

Astronomers Measure Magnification of Gravitational Lenses Using Supernovae

Distant exploding stars observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are providing astronomers with a powerful tool to determine the strength of naturally-occurring "cosmic lenses" that are used to magnify objects in the remote universe.

2 May 2014

Researchers Seek Ways to Synchronize Magnetic Spins to Build Powerful Nanoscale Antennas

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are seeking ways to synchronize the magnetic spins in nanoscale devices to build tiny yet more powerful signal-generating or receiving antennas and other electronics.

2 May 2014

Global Quantum Dots Market Expected to Grow at 69.7% CAGR During 2013-2018

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Quantum Dots Market 2014-2018" report to their offering.

2 May 2014

New Observations Show Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Behave Differently than Expected

Gamma-ray bursts are powerful bursts of gamma-ray radiation in connection with the explosive death of massive stars. The bursts themselves are short lived – lasting typically less than a few minutes, but is followed by an afterglow that can be observed for several days after the gamma-ray burst.

2 May 2014

ESO’s VLT Determines Rotation Rate of Exoplanet for First Time

Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have, for the first time, determined the rotation rate of an exoplanet. Beta Pictoris b has been found to have a day that lasts only eight hours. This is much quicker than any planet in the Solar System — its equator is moving at almost 100 000 kilometres per hour.

2 May 2014

ARI Professor to Present on 'Ultra-Long Gamma Ray Bursts' at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Professor Carole Mundell, who leads the Gamma Ray Burst group at the Astrophysics Research Institute, recently visited the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, where she gave a series of presentations describing her group's research and spent time meeting faculty, postdocs and students in Harvard's Institute for Theory and Computation.

30 Apr 2014

Young Galaxy Behaves Like More Developed Galaxies

Scientists have discovered a young galaxy acting in unexpectedly mature ways. The galaxy, called S0901, is rotating in a calm manner typical of more developed galaxies like our own spiral Milky Way.

30 Apr 2014

Researchers Recreate Space Jets Using Extremely High-Powered Lasers

Streaming jets of high-speed matter produce some of the most stunning objects seen in space. Astronomers have seen them shooting out of young stars just being formed, X-ray binary stars and even the supermassive black holes at the centers of large galaxies.

30 Apr 2014

New Way of Defining Measurement Errors Applicable in Quantum Domain

Nearly 90 years after Werner Heisenberg pioneered his uncertainty principle, a group of researchers from three countries has provided substantial new insight into this fundamental tenet of quantum physics with the first rigorous formulation supporting the uncertainty principle as Heisenberg envisioned it.

30 Apr 2014

Magnetic Properties Observed in Iron Based Compound Without Rare Earth Elements

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have observed magnetic properties typically associated with those observed in rare-earth elements in iron. These properties are observed in a new iron based compound that does not contain rare earth elements, when the iron atom is positioned between two nitrogen atoms.

29 Apr 2014

Lens in the Sky Amplifies Light from Supernova

An exceptionally bright supernova reported in 2013 is so luminous, a new study reports, because a lens in the sky amplified its light. The discovery of the lens settles an important controversy in the field of astronomy.

26 Apr 2014

Galaxy Magnifies Supernova Thirtyfold Through Gravitational Lensing

A team of researchers led by Robert Quimby at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has announced the discovery of a galaxy that magnified a background, Type Ia supernova thirtyfold through gravitational lensing. This is the first example of strong gravitational lensing of a supernova confirms the team's previous explanation for the unusual properties of this supernova.

26 Apr 2014

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Cassini Captures Image of Ice-Giant Planet Uranus Beyond Saturn's Rings

Novel Method for Accurate Measurement of Surface Temperature of Nanoscale Objects

Researchers Report Detailed Calculations of Dynamics of Positronium Bose-Einstein Condensate

Astronomers Measure Magnification of Gravitational Lenses Using Supernovae

Researchers Seek Ways to Synchronize Magnetic Spins to Build Powerful Nanoscale Antennas

Global Quantum Dots Market Expected to Grow at 69.7% CAGR During 2013-2018

New Observations Show Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Behave Differently than Expected

ESO’s VLT Determines Rotation Rate of Exoplanet for First Time

ARI Professor to Present on 'Ultra-Long Gamma Ray Bursts' at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Young Galaxy Behaves Like More Developed Galaxies

Researchers Recreate Space Jets Using Extremely High-Powered Lasers

New Way of Defining Measurement Errors Applicable in Quantum Domain

Magnetic Properties Observed in Iron Based Compound Without Rare Earth Elements

Lens in the Sky Amplifies Light from Supernova

Galaxy Magnifies Supernova Thirtyfold Through Gravitational Lensing

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