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Physicists Perform Direct Measurement of Critical Magnetic Field in Cuprates

Three physicists at the Université de Sherbrooke led an international team to first direct measurement of the critical magnetic field in cuprates, the most promising materials for superconductivity. This breakthrough resolves an enigma that has baffled researchers for 20 years and clears the way for major advances. The study is published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

17 Feb 2014

University of Wisconsin-Madison to Shut Down its Synchrotron Radiation Center near Stough

Faced with a federal funding shortfall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has decided to shut down its Synchrotron Radiation Center near Stoughton on March 7.

17 Feb 2014

IBEX Measurements Validate Mysterious ‘Ribbon’ of Energy and Particles at the Edge of our Solar System

Scientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including a team leader from the University of New Hampshire, report that recent, independent measurements have validated one of the mission's signature findings—a mysterious "ribbon" of energy and particles at the edge of our solar system that appears to be a directional "roadmap in the sky" of the local interstellar magnetic field.

14 Feb 2014

Forschungszentrum Jülich to Lead Consortium to Design Measuring System for ITER Fusion Experiment

Forschungszentrum Jülich will lead a consortium of European partners to design a measuring system for the fusion experiment ITER. The facility is currently under construction in Cadarache in the south of France as part of a major international cooperation.

14 Feb 2014

New PhD Position at University of Liverpool Will Enable a Student to Work at CERN

Founding director of Barclays Development Capital Ltd has created a new PhD position at the University of Liverpool that will allow a student to work at one of the world’s largest particle accelerator facilities.

14 Feb 2014

NASA to Host NuSTAR Mission News Teleconference on Feb. 19

NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) Wednesday, Feb. 19, to announce new observations from its high-energy X-ray mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

14 Feb 2014

Breakthrough Method for Improving Superconductivity in New Materials

Armed with just the right atomic arrangements, superconductors allow electricity to flow without loss and radically enhance energy generation, delivery, and storage. Scientists tweak these superconductor recipes by swapping out elements or manipulating the valence electrons in an atom’s outermost orbital shell to strike the perfect conductive balance.

14 Feb 2014

Forecast Report on Quantum Dots Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Quantum Dots Market - Forecasts to 2020" report to their offering.

14 Feb 2014

Superconducting Detectors Extract More Information from Single Particles of Light

It's not quite Star Trek communications—yet. But long-distance communications in space may be easier now that researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have designed a clever detector array that can extract more information than usual from single particles of light.

13 Feb 2014

Researchers Demonstrate Hysteresis Using a Superfluid Atomtronic Circuit

Atomtronics is an emerging technology whereby physicists use ensembles of atoms to build analogs to electronic circuit elements.

13 Feb 2014

Spontaneous Magnetic Order of Electron and Nuclear Spins Observed in a Quantum Wire

Physicists at the University of Basel have observed a spontaneous magnetic order of electron and nuclear spins in a quantum wire at temperatures of 0.1 kelvin.

13 Feb 2014

Quantum Simulations Help Design New Materials

Originally from Paris, France, Ismaila Dabo has family roots in Guinea, a West African nation blessed with abundant sunshine to match the sunny optimism of its people. But despite these powerful sources of energy, there is a lack of electricity to power the country.

13 Feb 2014

ARO Awards $2.25 Million for Research on Quantum States of Superconducting Circuits

Plourde and a team of researchers from University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of the Saarland in Germany were recently awarded $2.25 million, $813,000 of which will go to SU, by ARO for their proposed project “Scalable Readout of Superconducting Qubits with Novel Superconducting Amplifiers and Metamaterials.”

13 Feb 2014

Lab Experiment Helps Explain Origin of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics researchers feature strongly as contributors to the first edition of the new series of the BBC's Sky at Night programme on BBC4 presented by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Oxford Astrophysics's Chris Lintott.

12 Feb 2014

Saturn Puts on a Dancing Light Show

NASA trained several pairs of eyes on Saturn as the planet put on a dancing light show at its poles. While NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able to observe the northern auroras in ultraviolet wavelengths, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, orbiting around Saturn, got complementary close-up views in infrared, visible-light and ultraviolet wavelengths. Cassini could also see northern and southern parts of Saturn that don't face Earth.

12 Feb 2014

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Physicists Perform Direct Measurement of Critical Magnetic Field in Cuprates

University of Wisconsin-Madison to Shut Down its Synchrotron Radiation Center near Stough

IBEX Measurements Validate Mysterious ‘Ribbon’ of Energy and Particles at the Edge of our Solar System

Forschungszentrum Jülich to Lead Consortium to Design Measuring System for ITER Fusion Experiment

New PhD Position at University of Liverpool Will Enable a Student to Work at CERN

NASA to Host NuSTAR Mission News Teleconference on Feb. 19

Breakthrough Method for Improving Superconductivity in New Materials

Forecast Report on Quantum Dots Market

Superconducting Detectors Extract More Information from Single Particles of Light

Researchers Demonstrate Hysteresis Using a Superfluid Atomtronic Circuit

Spontaneous Magnetic Order of Electron and Nuclear Spins Observed in a Quantum Wire

Quantum Simulations Help Design New Materials

ARO Awards $2.25 Million for Research on Quantum States of Superconducting Circuits

Lab Experiment Helps Explain Origin of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Saturn Puts on a Dancing Light Show

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