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Astronomers Create Cloud Map of Kepler-7b Exoplanet

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.

1 Oct 2013

Fused Silica Nanofabricated Chips May Help Reduce Size and Cost of Future High-Energy Particle Colliders

In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice.

30 Sep 2013

TWAS Meet in Buenos Aires to Feature Symposium on Quantum Information and Quantum Computing

Top scientists and policymakers from the developing world – including science ministers from at least two nations – will convene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday 30 September for a meeting that will explore new research and compelling challenges in science and engineering.

30 Sep 2013

NASA's BRRISON Lifts Off to Study Frozen Volatiles in Comet ISON

The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON), built and managed for NASA by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, lifted off at 8:10pm EDT from Fort Sumner, N.M., on a mission that includes Comet ISON as one of its observation targets.

30 Sep 2013

String Theory Researcher Discusses Impact of Computing on our Lives

Self-driving cars. Printed heart tissue. Synthetic telepathy. Toilets that read the chemicals in your urine and warn you when your health is out of whack.

30 Sep 2013

ERC Awards Advanced Grants for Quantum Research

Klapwijk, who works at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, will use the grant for his research into quantum materials. He attempts to understand the electrodynamic properties of quantum materials down to the nanoscale. He examines materials in which different ground states compete with each other. This gives rise to local differences in the material's electronic properties such as the conductivity and relative permittivity.

27 Sep 2013

Caltech Develops Spiral Chip-Based Optical Resonator

A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created the optical equivalent of a tuning fork—a device that can help steady the electrical currents needed to power high-end electronics and stabilize the signals of high-quality lasers.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists Discover Millisecond Pulsar Star with Dual Identity

A fleet of orbiting X-ray telescopes that includes NASA's Swift orbiting observatory, which is controlled by Penn State, has been used by an international team of scientists in the discovery of a "millisecond pulsar" star with a dual identity.

27 Sep 2013

Quantum Light Source Coaxed to Emit Ultrashort Burst of Light at a Desired Moment in Time

Usually, an elementary light source – such as an excited atom or molecule – emits light at an unpredictable instance in time. This spontaneous emission of light is a fundamental process within applications such as LEDs and lasers. However, for other applications it is desirable to receive single photons (light) at a specific moment with as little uncertainty as possible.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists Observe Elementary Quantum Magnetic Phenomena in Ferromagnetic Quantum Crystals

Simulating solid state properties with precisely controlled quantum systems is an important goal of the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division at MPQ. Now the team around Professor Immanuel Bloch (Chair for Experimental Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Director at MPQ) has come again a step closer to it – to be precise, to the understanding of processes in ferromagnetic solid state crystals in which elementary excitations, so-called magnons, can emerge.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists Employ Neutron Source to Determine Sodium Ion Path Movement in Future Battery Material

Lithium ion batteries are highly efficient and provide electrical energy for laptops, mobile phones and lately also for the growing electric car market. But there are drawbacks to this technology: lithium is expensive and its extraction rather harmful to the environment.

27 Sep 2013

Students Measure Cosmic Particles on International Cosmic Day

On September 25, 2013 the 2nd International Cosmic Day took place: an international event on astroparticle physics, targeted at high-school students. The International Cosmic Day was initiated by DESY and Netzwerk Teilchenwelt in Germany as well as by Fermilab with its student outreach project QuarkNet in the U.S. On that day, students from all over the world have measured particles that are produced in space and that carry information about the structure and origin of the universe to us.

27 Sep 2013

New Class of Topological Materials Transport Zero-Resistance Edge Current Above Room Temperature

The group of Xiao Hu (WPI-MANA PI), Qi-Feng Liang (MANA Research Associate) and Long-Hua Wu (NIMS Junior Researcher) has designed successfully a class of new topological materials, which, at the optimal condition, can transport zero-resistance edge current even above room temperature due to the large spin-orbit coupling. This quantized current is fully spin polarized and can be inverted by electric field, and therefore is useful for spintronics.

26 Sep 2013

Multi-Institution Center for Integrated Quantum Materials Receives $20 Million NSF Fund

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $20 million to fund a new Science and Technology Center, the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials. During the next five years, the multi-institution center will support science and education programs that explore the unique electronic behavior of quantum materials.

26 Sep 2013

Companion Star Fuels Neutron Star to Transform from Radio Pulsar into an X-Ray Pulsar and Back Again

Astronomers have uncovered the strange case of a neutron star with the peculiar ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray pulsar and back again. This star's capricious behavior appears to be fueled by a nearby companion star and may give new insights into the birth of millisecond pulsars.

26 Sep 2013

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Astronomers Create Cloud Map of Kepler-7b Exoplanet

Fused Silica Nanofabricated Chips May Help Reduce Size and Cost of Future High-Energy Particle Colliders

TWAS Meet in Buenos Aires to Feature Symposium on Quantum Information and Quantum Computing

NASA's BRRISON Lifts Off to Study Frozen Volatiles in Comet ISON

String Theory Researcher Discusses Impact of Computing on our Lives

ERC Awards Advanced Grants for Quantum Research

Caltech Develops Spiral Chip-Based Optical Resonator

Scientists Discover Millisecond Pulsar Star with Dual Identity

Quantum Light Source Coaxed to Emit Ultrashort Burst of Light at a Desired Moment in Time

Scientists Observe Elementary Quantum Magnetic Phenomena in Ferromagnetic Quantum Crystals

Scientists Employ Neutron Source to Determine Sodium Ion Path Movement in Future Battery Material

Students Measure Cosmic Particles on International Cosmic Day

New Class of Topological Materials Transport Zero-Resistance Edge Current Above Room Temperature

Multi-Institution Center for Integrated Quantum Materials Receives $20 Million NSF Fund

Companion Star Fuels Neutron Star to Transform from Radio Pulsar into an X-Ray Pulsar and Back Again

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