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Fermi National Accelerator Lab’s Family Open House to Take Place Feb. 9, 2014

The Family Open House is one of the most popular annual events hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This year’s event will take place on Feb. 9 from 1 to 5 p.m. in Wilson Hall. It will include activities for the whole family, from hands-on science exhibits to tours of some of the lab’s attractions – including the massive electromagnet that was brought to Fermilab last summer.

15 Jan 2014

Simplified Detector Measures Waveforms of Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Radiation

A team in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics has taken another step toward the achievement of complete control over the waveform of pulsed laser light. Together with colleagues based at LMU and the Technische Universität München (TUM), they have constructed a detector which provides a detailed picture of the waveforms of laser pulses that last for a few femtoseconds (1 fs = 10-15 seconds).

15 Jan 2014

UT Chemist Allen Bard to be Honored with Enrico Fermi Award

President Barack Obama has named College of Natural Sciences chemist Allen Bard a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.

15 Jan 2014

NuSTAR Images ‘Hand of God’ – the Energized Remains of a Dead Star

Two new views from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, showcase the telescope's talent for spying objects near and far. One image shows the energized remains of a dead star, a structure nicknamed the "Hand of God" after its resemblance to a hand. Another image shows distant black holes buried in blankets of dust.

15 Jan 2014

Liverpool Leads Consortium to Develop New Sensors for CERN Large Hadron Collider

Scientists at the University of Liverpool are leading a consortium to develop new sensors for research facilities including the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

15 Jan 2014

Researchers Observe Collective Spin Dynamics of Ultra-Cold Fermions

Understanding collective behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases is of great interest since it is intimately related to many encountered systems in nature such as human behavior, swarms of birds, traffic jam, sand dunes, neutron stars, fundamental magnetic properties of solids, or even super-fluidity or super-conductivity. In all of these everyday life examples, collective behavior plays a crucial role since all participating objects move, voluntarily or not, synchronously.

15 Jan 2014

New Image of Dramatic and Mysterious Messier 83Spiral Galaxy

This new Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. One of the largest and closest barred spirals to us, this galaxy is dramatic and mysterious; it has hosted a large number of supernova explosions, and is thought to have a double nucleus lurking at its core.

10 Jan 2014

Hubble Delivers Deepest View of the Tarantula Nebula

This new Hubble image is the best-ever view of a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula, a region full of star clusters, glowing gas, and dark dust. Astronomers are exploring and mapping this nebula as part of the Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project, in a bid to try to understand its starry anatomy.

10 Jan 2014

Rare, Powerful Burst of Solar Radiation Hurtles Toward the Earth

The first powerful "X-class" solar flare of 2014, in association with another solar phenomenon, a giant cloud of solar particles known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), erupted from the sun on Tuesday, sending radiation and particles speeding toward Earth and disrupting operations on the ground.

10 Jan 2014

First Unambiguous Theoretical Evidence of Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis

Light-gathering macromolecules in plant cells transfer energy by taking advantage of molecular vibrations whose physical descriptions have no equivalents in classical physics, according to the first unambiguous theoretical evidence of quantum effects in photosynthesis published today in the journal Nature Communications.

10 Jan 2014

Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Measures Scale of the Universe to One Percent Accuracy

Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent. This and future measures at this precision are the key to determining the nature of dark energy.

10 Jan 2014

Chandra Provides Evidence for Black Hole Destroying a Star in a Dwarf Galaxy

A bright, long duration flare may be the first recorded event of a black hole destroying a star in a dwarf galaxy. The evidence comes from two independent studies using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.

10 Jan 2014

Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid Discovered by Student Astronomers

Students in a University of Maryland undergraduate astronomy class have made a rare discovery that wowed professional astronomers: a previously unstudied asteroid is actually a pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another.

9 Jan 2014

Swift Spacecraft Images Help Discover Rare Subclass of Neutron Star

Recent observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft have provided scientists a unique glimpse into the activity at the center of our galaxy and led to the discovery of a rare celestial entity that may help them test predictions of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

9 Jan 2014

Scottish Universities Launch World’s First International Max-Planck Partnership

The world’s first International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) was launched by five Scottish universities on 19th December 2013. The Scottish Universities of Heriot-Watt, Glasgow, Strathclyde, St Andrews and Edinburgh have partnered with the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Hannover; the MPI for the Science of Light, Erlangen; the MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching; the MPI for Chemical Physics, Dresden; and the MPI for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart.

9 Jan 2014

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Fermi National Accelerator Lab’s Family Open House to Take Place Feb. 9, 2014

Simplified Detector Measures Waveforms of Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Radiation

UT Chemist Allen Bard to be Honored with Enrico Fermi Award

NuSTAR Images ‘Hand of God’ – the Energized Remains of a Dead Star

Liverpool Leads Consortium to Develop New Sensors for CERN Large Hadron Collider

Researchers Observe Collective Spin Dynamics of Ultra-Cold Fermions

New Image of Dramatic and Mysterious Messier 83Spiral Galaxy

Hubble Delivers Deepest View of the Tarantula Nebula

Rare, Powerful Burst of Solar Radiation Hurtles Toward the Earth

First Unambiguous Theoretical Evidence of Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis

Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Measures Scale of the Universe to One Percent Accuracy

Chandra Provides Evidence for Black Hole Destroying a Star in a Dwarf Galaxy

Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid Discovered by Student Astronomers

Swift Spacecraft Images Help Discover Rare Subclass of Neutron Star

Scottish Universities Launch World’s First International Max-Planck Partnership

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