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Attosecond Science May Help Control Quantum Nature of the Electron

In the blink of an eye, more attoseconds have expired than the age of Earth measured in – minutes. A lot more. To be precise, an attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second.

8 Mar 2013

Young-Looking Supernova Found in Old Galaxy

The star Eta Carinae is ready to blow. 170 years ago, this 100-solar-mass object belched out several suns' worth of gas in an eruption that made it the second-brightest star after Sirius. That was just a precursor to the main event, since it will eventually go supernova.

8 Mar 2013

Astronomers Refine Astronomical Calculation That Helps Measure Expansion of the Universe

A team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Ian Thompson have managed to improve the measurement of the distance to our nearest neighbor galaxy and, in the process, refine an astronomical calculation that helps measure the expansion of the universe. Their work is published March 7 by Nature.

8 Mar 2013

Oldest Known Star with a Well-Determined Age Found

A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star that's been around for a very long time.

8 Mar 2013

Scientists Image Atomic Collapse States around Super-Large Atomic Nuclei

Berkeley Lab researchers recreate elusive phenomenon with artificial nuclei

8 Mar 2013

Ion Trap Technology Considered as a Scalable Option for Quantum Information Processing

Recently Science Magazine invited JQI fellow Chris Monroe and Duke Professor Jungsang Kim to speculate on ion trap technology as a scalable option for quantum information processing.

8 Mar 2013

Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator Retrieved from Abandoned Gold Mine

In a step toward understanding and exploiting an exotic form of matter that has been sparking excitement for potential applications in a new genre of supercomputers, scientists are reporting the first identification of a naturally occurring "topological insulator" (TI). Their report on discovery of the material, retrieved from an abandoned gold mine in the Czech Republic, appears in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

8 Mar 2013

Findings Dispel Firewall Paradox about Large Black Holes

Research by scientists at the University of York has revealed new insights into the life and death of black holes.

8 Mar 2013

X-ray Telescopes Help Determine Relation between Radius and Mass of Neutron Stars

Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the Universe outside of a black hole. New results from Chandra and other X-ray telescopes have provided one of the most reliable determinations yet of the relation between the radius of a neutron star and its mass.

7 Mar 2013

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

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Attosecond Science May Help Control Quantum Nature of the Electron

Young-Looking Supernova Found in Old Galaxy

Astronomers Refine Astronomical Calculation That Helps Measure Expansion of the Universe

Oldest Known Star with a Well-Determined Age Found

Scientists Image Atomic Collapse States around Super-Large Atomic Nuclei

Ion Trap Technology Considered as a Scalable Option for Quantum Information Processing

Naturally Occurring Topological Insulator Retrieved from Abandoned Gold Mine

Findings Dispel Firewall Paradox about Large Black Holes

X-ray Telescopes Help Determine Relation between Radius and Mass of Neutron Stars

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

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