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Planck Satellite Measures Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with Exquisite Precision

Rachel Bean, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, comments on new data released by the European Space Agency offering a detailed map of relic radiation from the Big Bang.

25 Mar 2013

Closest Reading yet of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Thanks to a supersensitive space telescope and some sophisticated supercomputing, scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

25 Mar 2013

TUM Physicists Utilize Carbon Nanotubes as Quantum Bits for Quantum Computers

Carbon nanotubes can be used as quantum bits for quantum computers. A study by physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen has shown how nanotubes can store information in the form of vibrations. Up to now, researchers have experimented primarily with electrically charged particles. Because nanomechanical devices are not charged, they are much less sensitive to electrical interference.

25 Mar 2013

Planck Space Telescope Data Confirms Standard Model of Cosmology

Europe’s Planck space telescope, which University of Manchester scientists at the Jodrell Bank Observatory helped build, has compiled the most detailed map of the post-Big Bang Universe ever recorded and thrown up anomalies that current physics cannot yet explain.

25 Mar 2013

Sideline Quasars May Have Prevented Formation of New Generations of Stars

University of Colorado Boulder astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say "sideline quasars" likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, preventing small galaxy formation.

25 Mar 2013

Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Honors Alexander Polyakov for Discoveries in Field Theory and String Theory

The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize has been awarded to Alexander Polyakov for his many discoveries in field theory and string theory.

22 Mar 2013

Strategic Management Society Partners with CERN and IMD for SMS Lake Geneva Conference

Today CERN hosts the first day of a 3-day conference promoted by the Strategic Management Society, a non-profit organization operating exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes to promote and encourage research and practice in the field of strategic management.

22 Mar 2013

Planck Space Mission Releases Accurate and Detailed Map of the Oldest Light in the Universe

The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins.

22 Mar 2013

Princeton Researchers Help Implement Essential Scientific Instrument for Planck Space Mission

Princeton University researchers contributed extensively to the Planck space mission that on March 21 released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins.

22 Mar 2013

Universe Still in its 'Child' Phase

The Planck satellite, launched in 2009 by ESA (the European Space Agency) examines the origin of the Universe: after almost three years the data regarding the first fifteen months of observations have finally been published, describing a Universe that is still in its 'child' phase.

22 Mar 2013

MIT Astrophysicist Continues Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets

The solar system's configuration is learned in grade school, and forever committed to memory with the help of foam balls, deconstructed coat hangers, and paint. It's a fairly straightforward arrangement: The sun revolves at the center as eight planets — along with dwarf planet Pluto — orbit within the same plane, and in the same direction as the sun's rotation.

21 Mar 2013

Something Other than Electrons Carries the Current in Copper-Containing Superconductors

To engineers, it's a tale as old as time: Electrical current is carried through materials by flowing electrons. But physicists at the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania found that for copper-containing superconductors, known as cuprates, electrons are not enough to carry the current.

21 Mar 2013

Researchers Observe Process of Spin Collapse in Atoms by Measuring Scattered Photons

One of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics is that a system can be in more than one state – it can exist in multiple realities – at once. This phenomenon, known as the superposition principle, exists only so long as the system is not observed or measured in any way.

21 Mar 2013

Scientists Track SN 1999em Supernova in NGC 1637 Lopsided Spiral Galaxy

Supernovae are amongst the most violent events in nature. They mark the dazzling deaths of stars and can outshine the combined light of the billions of stars in their host galaxies.

21 Mar 2013

Increase in Cosmic Ray Intensity Indicates Voyager 1’s Exit Outside Normal Heliosphere

Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new study appearing online today.

21 Mar 2013

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Planck Satellite Measures Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with Exquisite Precision

Closest Reading yet of the Cosmic Microwave Background

TUM Physicists Utilize Carbon Nanotubes as Quantum Bits for Quantum Computers

Planck Space Telescope Data Confirms Standard Model of Cosmology

Sideline Quasars May Have Prevented Formation of New Generations of Stars

Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Honors Alexander Polyakov for Discoveries in Field Theory and String Theory

Strategic Management Society Partners with CERN and IMD for SMS Lake Geneva Conference

Planck Space Mission Releases Accurate and Detailed Map of the Oldest Light in the Universe

Princeton Researchers Help Implement Essential Scientific Instrument for Planck Space Mission

Universe Still in its 'Child' Phase

MIT Astrophysicist Continues Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets

Something Other than Electrons Carries the Current in Copper-Containing Superconductors

Researchers Observe Process of Spin Collapse in Atoms by Measuring Scattered Photons

Scientists Track SN 1999em Supernova in NGC 1637 Lopsided Spiral Galaxy

Increase in Cosmic Ray Intensity Indicates Voyager 1’s Exit Outside Normal Heliosphere

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