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Yale Physicists Win John Stewart Bell Prize for Contributions to Field of Quantum Mechanics

The University of Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control has announced Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf, both of Yale University, as winners of the prestigious John Stewart Bell Prize for their enormous contributions to the field of quantum mechanics.

31 Jul 2013

Moore Foundation Announces Funds to Explore Quantum Materials

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced good news for science today: more than $90 million for basic research, specifically in the field of condensed matter physics. The Moore Foundation’s new Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) initiative will focus this budget over a five-year period to explore the exotic and unexpected properties of a broad class of systems termed quantum materials.

31 Jul 2013

New Way to Measure Spin in Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers have found a new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, which could lead to better understanding about how they drive the growth of galaxies.

30 Jul 2013

Dysprosium Used to Test Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

Albert Einstein’s assertion that there’s an ultimate speed limit – the speed of light – has withstood countless tests over the past 100 years, but that didn’t stop University of California, Berkeley, postdoc Michael Hohensee and graduate student Nathan Leefer from checking whether some particles break this law.

30 Jul 2013

X-ray Observations Detect Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Passing in Front of Parent Star

For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.

30 Jul 2013

Novel Method to Measure Internal Properties of Stars

A team of researchers has devised a way to measure the internal properties of stars—a method that offers more accurate assessments of their orbiting planets.

30 Jul 2013

Researchers Clock Speed Limit for Electrical Switching in Magnetite

An international team of researchers, which includes UvA physicists Hermann Dürr and Mark Golden, has clocked the speed limit for electrical switching in magnetite (Fe3O4), a naturally magnetic mineral. Their results could drive innovations in the tiny transistors that control the flow of electricity across silicon chips, enabling faster, more powerful computing devices.

30 Jul 2013

Combined Simple Models May Help Interpret Cosmological Observations of the Early Universe

Complicated statistical behaviour observed in complex systems such as early universe can often be understood if it is broken down into simpler ones. Two physicists, Petr Jizba (currently affiliated with the Czech Technical University in Prague), and Fabio Scardigli (now working at Kyoto University in Japan), have just published results in EPJ C pertaining to theoretical predictions of such cosmological systems’ dynamics.

29 Jul 2013

EPFL’s Supercomputer Simulation Software Being Improved for Targeting Supernovae in Dwarf Galaxies

Summer Series. Supernovas, the explosions of stars at the end of life, contain valuable information about the origin of the universe. Master’s student Alexis Arnaudon seeks to improve parameters of their simulation to lift the veil on some of the many remaining questions about them.

29 Jul 2013

ARI Galaxy Garden Wins Creativity Award at 2013 RHS Tatton Show

The Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) has gained a Gold Medal and creativity award for its Galaxy Garden at the 2013 RHS Tatton Show. The garden titled ‘Watch this Space’, is an artistic interpretation of a rare and important event that is happening in our own galaxy during summer/autumn 2013. A huge cloud of dust and gas will encounter the super-massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy and be torn asunder.

29 Jul 2013

Scientists Identify Internal Electron Accelerator Within Van Allen Radiation Belts

Researchers believe they have solved a lingering mystery about how electrons within Earth’s radiation belt can suddenly become energetic enough to kill orbiting satellites. Thanks to data gathered from an intrepid pair of NASA probes roaming the harsh space environment within the Van Allen radiation belts, scientists have identified an internal electron accelerator operating within the belts.

29 Jul 2013

I-Love-Q Relations May Aid in Gravitational Wave Effort

Scientists can learn a tremendous amount about neutron stars and quark stars without understanding their internal structure in detail, according to two Montana State University scientists who published their findings in the July 26 issue of Science.

29 Jul 2013

Most Centaurs May be Comets, Finds New NASA Study

The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are they asteroids or comets? A new study of observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) finds most centaurs are comets.

26 Jul 2013

Electron Acceleration Found to Occur in Van Allen Radiation Belts

Two University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues have advanced scientists’ knowledge of the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts by answering a long-standing question about the belts.

26 Jul 2013

Massive Particle Accelerator Discovered in the Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts

Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe and known as the Van Allen radiation belts.

26 Jul 2013

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Yale Physicists Win John Stewart Bell Prize for Contributions to Field of Quantum Mechanics

Moore Foundation Announces Funds to Explore Quantum Materials

New Way to Measure Spin in Supermassive Black Holes

Dysprosium Used to Test Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

X-ray Observations Detect Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Passing in Front of Parent Star

Novel Method to Measure Internal Properties of Stars

Researchers Clock Speed Limit for Electrical Switching in Magnetite

Combined Simple Models May Help Interpret Cosmological Observations of the Early Universe

EPFL’s Supercomputer Simulation Software Being Improved for Targeting Supernovae in Dwarf Galaxies

ARI Galaxy Garden Wins Creativity Award at 2013 RHS Tatton Show

Scientists Identify Internal Electron Accelerator Within Van Allen Radiation Belts

I-Love-Q Relations May Aid in Gravitational Wave Effort

Most Centaurs May be Comets, Finds New NASA Study

Electron Acceleration Found to Occur in Van Allen Radiation Belts

Massive Particle Accelerator Discovered in the Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts

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