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Natural Lens in Space Magnifies Light from Very Distant Background Galaxies

The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to brighten and magnify the light coming from very distant background galaxies.

6 Mar 2013

Clues to How Gas Giant Planets May Have Formed and Evolved

New theoretical modeling by Carnegie’s Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter and Saturn—might have formed and evolved. His work was published recently by The Astrophysical Journal.

6 Mar 2013

Texas A&M Hosts Workshop on Dark Matter

Scientists from around the world will join Texas A&M University's top experts in high-energy physics and astrophysics for a three-day workshop beginning Friday (March 8) that will delve into dark matter, the unknown substance that makes up nearly a quarter of the universe.

6 Mar 2013

Van Allen Radiation Belts Store Mysterious Zone of High-Energy Electrons

U.S. researchers, including a trio from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have witnessed the mysterious appearance of a relatively long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth's Van Allen radiation belts.

5 Mar 2013

Ice Irradiated to Simulate Damage from Cosmic Rays

Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense cold and low pressure to form that the right conditions rarely, if ever, occur naturally on Earth. And when Gerakines makes the ice, he must keep the layer so microscopically thin it is dwarfed by a grain of pollen.

5 Mar 2013

Charge-Density Waves Not the Mechanism behind High-Temperature Superconductivity

Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electric current to pass with perfect efficiency through materials chilled to subzero temperatures, and it may play an essential role in revolutionizing the entire electricity chain, from generation to transmission and grid-scale storage.

5 Mar 2013

Light Manipulated on Superconducting Chips to Build Quantum Computers

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara are manipulating light on superconducting chips, and forging new pathways to building the quantum devices of the future –– including super-fast and powerful quantum computers.

5 Mar 2013

IU Quantum Hadrodynamics Physicist to be Honored with One-Day Symposium

The late Indiana University physicist Brian David Serot -- a four-time winner of the IU Trustees' Teaching Award still remembered for his calm rationality and encyclopedic knowledge of the field -- will be honored with a one-day symposium March 6 at IU's Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter.

4 Mar 2013

Researchers Overcome Important Challenges of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa have applied a recently developed technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light. Their work both overcomes some important challenges of Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle and also is applicable to qubits, the building blocks of quantum information theory.

4 Mar 2013

Artificially Engineered Multilayer Material Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Superconductivity Research

A multi-university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real-world applications.

4 Mar 2013

Discovery of Quarks Changes Approach to Particle Physics

Honeywell brought Professor Jerome I. Friedman , Nobel laureate in physics, to address and interact with the students and faculty of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC) in Mexicali, Mexico, as part of its global Honeywell Initiative for Science & Engineering (HISE) program today.

2 Mar 2013

Updates on CERN’s New Particle Discovery to Be Presented at Moriond Conference

Geneva 1 March 2013. Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are set to present their latest results at the Moriond conference, which begins tomorrow in the Italian town of La Thuile, and runs until 16 March.

2 Mar 2013

Research and Markets Offers Company Profile on Quantum Dots Manufacturer

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Analysis of Nanoco Group PLC" company profile to their offering.

2 Mar 2013

Third “Storage Ring” Radiation Belt Found Wrapped Around the Earth

With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced the revision of a 50-year-old theory about the structure of the radiation belts that wrap around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads.

2 Mar 2013

Black Hole Collision May Have Caused Violent Celestial Fireworks in the Galactic Center

These days the core of the Milky Way galaxy is a pretty tame place...cosmically speaking. The galactic black hole at the center is a sleeping giant. Existing stars are peacefully circling. Although conditions are favorable, there doesn’t even seem to be much new star formation going on.

2 Mar 2013

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Natural Lens in Space Magnifies Light from Very Distant Background Galaxies

Clues to How Gas Giant Planets May Have Formed and Evolved

Texas A&M Hosts Workshop on Dark Matter

Van Allen Radiation Belts Store Mysterious Zone of High-Energy Electrons

Ice Irradiated to Simulate Damage from Cosmic Rays

Charge-Density Waves Not the Mechanism behind High-Temperature Superconductivity

Light Manipulated on Superconducting Chips to Build Quantum Computers

IU Quantum Hadrodynamics Physicist to be Honored with One-Day Symposium

Researchers Overcome Important Challenges of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Artificially Engineered Multilayer Material Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Superconductivity Research

Discovery of Quarks Changes Approach to Particle Physics

Updates on CERN’s New Particle Discovery to Be Presented at Moriond Conference

Research and Markets Offers Company Profile on Quantum Dots Manufacturer

Third “Storage Ring” Radiation Belt Found Wrapped Around the Earth

Black Hole Collision May Have Caused Violent Celestial Fireworks in the Galactic Center

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