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Next Director for Chandra X-ray Center Selected After Extensive Search

Professor Charles Alcock, Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, announces that after an extensive search, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), in consultation with NASA, has selected Dr. Belinda Wilkes as the next director of the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC). She will assume the directorship on April 20, 2014.

21 Mar 2014

Daylight Solutions Introduces Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, today announced the launch of the world’s first commercially available laser-based infrared microscopy platform.

21 Mar 2014

Quantum Chaos Observed for Ultracold Atomic Collisions

At sub-micro-kelvin temperatures atoms or molecules move so slowly that it is better to think of them as spread-out, wavelike things a micron or more across, many times larger than any putative bond length (typically sub-nanometer in size) that would characterize bound molecules.

21 Mar 2014

First Joint Result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), past and current holders of the record for most powerful particle collider on Earth.

21 Mar 2014

Renowed JHU Scientist to Become TRIUMF’s Next Director

After a seven month, highly competitive, international search for TRIUMF’s next director, the laboratory’s Board of Management announced today that Dr. Jonathan Bagger, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Vice Provost, and former Interim Provost at the Johns Hopkins University, will join TRIUMF this summer.

20 Mar 2014

Science for Peace to be Celebrated at CERN

CERN is celebrating 60 years of science for peace in 2014, with events at the Organization’s Geneva laboratory and in its Members States. Festivities will focus on two key events. The first is on 1 July at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, where the Organization’s 12 founding members established the CERN Convention on 1 July 1953.

20 Mar 2014

Researchers Detect Clear Imprint of Gravitational Waves in Cosmic Microwave Background

Right after its birth in the Big Bang, the infant universe threw the mother of all tantrums.

20 Mar 2014

Polarization Could Reveal Tracks of Gravitational Waves

In 1996 Uros Seljak was a postdoc at Harvard, contemplating ways to extract information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The distribution of anisotropies, slight temperature differences, in the CMB had much to say about the large-scale structure of the universe. If it were also possible to detect the polarization of the CMB itself, however, a much wider window would be opened – polarization could even reveal the tracks of gravitational waves.

20 Mar 2014

NSF CAREER Grant for Project on ‘Reflection and Reverberation in Neutron Star Low-Mass X-ray Binaries’

A Wayne State University researcher has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the agency's most prestigious award for up-and-coming researchers in science and engineering.

20 Mar 2014

3-D Model Provides New Insight into Turbulent Death Throes of Supernovas

A powerful, new three-dimensional model provides fresh insight into the turbulent death throes of supernovas, whose final explosions outshine entire galaxies and populate the universe with elements that make life on Earth possible.

19 Mar 2014

Novel, Efficient Way to Leverage Entanglement

Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012.

19 Mar 2014

NIST's Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices Help Discover Evidence of Universe’s Rapid Inflation

The view back in time—way back to the origins of the universe—just got clearer. Much clearer.

19 Mar 2014

Scientists Uncover Origin and Cause of Rare, Powerful Sun Storm

In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international team of scientists, including three from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center, uncovers the origin and cause of an extreme space weather event that occurred on July 22, 2012 at the sun and generated the fastest solar wind speed ever recorded directly by a solar wind instrument.

19 Mar 2014

Chalmers Group Focuses on ‘Spintronic Devices’

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The research focus of our group at Chalmers is on “spintronic devices”, using semiconductor nanostructures, graphene, and other two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. We explore designer heterostructures of 2D layered materials for next generation spintronics devices.

19 Mar 2014

D-Wave Computing Machine Uses Quantum Effects, Confirms ETH Zurich Team

D-Wave – a special computing machine with this name has been getting computer scientists and physicists talking for a number of years now. The Canadian technology company of the same name is advertising the machine as a quantum computer. However, whether or not the machine does in fact use quantum effects is the subject of controversial debate amongst experts in the field. If it does, then this would make D-Wave the world's first commercially available quantum computer.

19 Mar 2014

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Next Director for Chandra X-ray Center Selected After Extensive Search

Daylight Solutions Introduces Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

Quantum Chaos Observed for Ultracold Atomic Collisions

First Joint Result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Renowed JHU Scientist to Become TRIUMF’s Next Director

Science for Peace to be Celebrated at CERN

Researchers Detect Clear Imprint of Gravitational Waves in Cosmic Microwave Background

Polarization Could Reveal Tracks of Gravitational Waves

NSF CAREER Grant for Project on ‘Reflection and Reverberation in Neutron Star Low-Mass X-ray Binaries’

3-D Model Provides New Insight into Turbulent Death Throes of Supernovas

Novel, Efficient Way to Leverage Entanglement

NIST's Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices Help Discover Evidence of Universe’s Rapid Inflation

Scientists Uncover Origin and Cause of Rare, Powerful Sun Storm

Chalmers Group Focuses on ‘Spintronic Devices’

D-Wave Computing Machine Uses Quantum Effects, Confirms ETH Zurich Team

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