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Reactivated NEOWISE Mission Detects 857 Minor Bodies in the Solar System

In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and four comets. Three of the NEOs are new discoveries; all three are hundreds of meters in diameter and dark as coal.

25 Jan 2014

Centrifuge Spectroscopy Enables Excitation of Oxygen Molecules from Ground Rotational State to Quantum States

UBC scientists have developed a new type of optical spectroscopy, dubbed “centrifuge spectroscopy”, capable of probing molecules in an unprecedented regime of ultrafast “super” rotation. An optical centrifuge is a laser pulse with rotating linear polarization. Due to the light-induced dipole moment, molecules line up along the polarization vector and faithfully follow its rotation, spinning up to ultra-high angular frequencies, which cannot be reached by any other means.

24 Jan 2014

Berkeley Researchers Tune Chemical Bonds of Buckyballs

If the chemical bonds that hold together the constituent atoms of a molecule could be tuned to become stronger or weaker, certain chemical properties of that molecule might be controlled to great advantage for applications in energy and catalysis. Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry, in collaboration with researchers from Rice University, were able to accomplish this feat by using an applied voltage and electric current to tune the strength of chemical bonds in fullerene or “buckyball” molecules.

24 Jan 2014

New Experiment Supports Existence of Luttinger Liquid State

How would electrons behave if confined to a wire so slender they could pass through it only in single-file?

24 Jan 2014

Professor Jairo Sinova Receives ERC Synergy Grant for Spintronics Research

Professor Jairo Sinova of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has been allocated a highly coveted ERC Synergy Grant to carry out spintronics research together with project partners from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. The European Research Council (ERC) uses Synergy Grants to make it possible for outstanding scientists to work together on trailblazing projects.

23 Jan 2014

Feedback in Realistic Environments, or FIRE Simulates Galaxy Evolution from the Big Bang

For decades, astrophysicists have encountered a puzzling contradiction: although many galactic-wind models—simulations of how matter is distributed in our universe—predict that the majority of the "normal" matter exists in stars at the center of galaxies, in actuality these stars account for less than 10 percent of the matter in the universe.

23 Jan 2014

Researchers Report Basic Difference Between Cuprates and Pnictides Families of High-Temperature Semiconductors

An article in Nature Physics reveals a fundamental difference between the two most important families of so-called "high-temperature superconductors", those based on copper (the cuprates) and those based on iron (the pnictides).

23 Jan 2014

London Collider Exhibition to Showcase the VELO Detector

The “VELO” detector built by physicists at the University of Liverpool forms part of a major new exhibition about the pioneering work at CERN.

23 Jan 2014

Researchers Unveil Experimental Strontium Atomic Clock with Extraordinary Precision and Stability

Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group led by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicist has unveiled an experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability-- key metrics for the performance of a clock.

23 Jan 2014

Thumbnail-Sized Quantum Cascade Laser Helps Detect Very Small Amounts of Damaging Greenhouse Gases

Rice University scientists have created a highly sensitive portable sensor to test the air for the most damaging greenhouse gases.

22 Jan 2014

Australian Academy of Science Honors Griffith Quantum Physicist

The 2014 Pawsey Medal has been awarded to professor Geoff Pryde from Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics.

22 Jan 2014

CERN Succeeds in Producing Beam of Antihydrogen Atoms

The ASACUSA1 experiment at CERN2 has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms.

22 Jan 2014

EPSRC Award Enables Use of Infrared Free Electron Laser at ALICE Accelerator for Improving Cancer Diagnosis

The University of Liverpool has been awarded £3.2 million to develop new diagnostic tests for cervical, oesophageal and prostate cancer patients.

21 Jan 2014

Philae Probe’s Landing on Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet Surface May Provide Unique Insights

In the coming autumn, the Philae probe is expected land on the nucleus of the 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, which is a mere four kilometres in diameter. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research want to analyse the primeval building materials of the planets on site for the first time.

21 Jan 2014

Researchers Demonstrate Direct Measurements of Quantum State Associated with Orbital-Angular Momentum

Until recently measuring a 27-dimensional quantum state would have been a time-consuming, multistage process using a technique called quantum tomography, which is similar to creating a 3D image from many 2D ones. Researchers at the University of Rochester have been able to apply a recently developed, alternative method called direct measurement to do this in a single experiment with no post-processing.

21 Jan 2014

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Reactivated NEOWISE Mission Detects 857 Minor Bodies in the Solar System

Centrifuge Spectroscopy Enables Excitation of Oxygen Molecules from Ground Rotational State to Quantum States

Berkeley Researchers Tune Chemical Bonds of Buckyballs

New Experiment Supports Existence of Luttinger Liquid State

Professor Jairo Sinova Receives ERC Synergy Grant for Spintronics Research

Feedback in Realistic Environments, or FIRE Simulates Galaxy Evolution from the Big Bang

Researchers Report Basic Difference Between Cuprates and Pnictides Families of High-Temperature Semiconductors

London Collider Exhibition to Showcase the VELO Detector

Researchers Unveil Experimental Strontium Atomic Clock with Extraordinary Precision and Stability

Thumbnail-Sized Quantum Cascade Laser Helps Detect Very Small Amounts of Damaging Greenhouse Gases

Australian Academy of Science Honors Griffith Quantum Physicist

CERN Succeeds in Producing Beam of Antihydrogen Atoms

EPSRC Award Enables Use of Infrared Free Electron Laser at ALICE Accelerator for Improving Cancer Diagnosis

Philae Probe’s Landing on Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet Surface May Provide Unique Insights

Researchers Demonstrate Direct Measurements of Quantum State Associated with Orbital-Angular Momentum

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