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Researchers Provide Evidence for Shift in Geometric Model of Supermassive Black Holes

Ongoing research led by Bucknell University physics & astronomy professor Jack Gallimore is advancing science's understanding of the supermassive black holes found at the center of galaxies.

7 Oct 2016

Particle Accelerators on the Verge of Transformational Breakthroughs with Advances in Computing Power

Particle accelerators are on the verge of transformational breakthroughs—and advances in computing power and techniques are a big part of the reason.

6 Oct 2016

Scientists to Develop Modeling, Simulation Applications for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics and Chemistry Research

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory will play major roles in two of the 15 fully funded application development proposals recently selected by the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in its first-round funding of $39.8 million. Seven other proposals received seed funding.

6 Oct 2016

Three Researchers Awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for Revealing Exotic Phases of Matter

A trio of researchers who laid the foundation for understanding numerous exotic phases of matter have split the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.

5 Oct 2016

Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Material Could Lead to New Generation of Computing Devices

Researchers have engineered a material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices, packing in more computing power while consuming a fraction of the energy that today’s electronics require.

5 Oct 2016

Stability of Qubits Could be Maintained Effectively in Silicon than in Gallium Arsenide

The power of future quantum computers stems from the use of qubits, or quantum bits, which do not have to be either 0 or 1, but can also be 0 and 1 at the same time. It is not yet clear on which technology these qubits in quantum computers will be based, but qubits based on electron spins are looking more and more promising.

5 Oct 2016

New Mathematical Model Could Help Understand How Type Ia Supernovae Form

A new mathematical model created by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History details a way that dead stars called white dwarfs could detonate, producing a type of explosion that is instrumental to measuring the extreme distances in our universe.

5 Oct 2016

Scientists Use New PIC Simulator to Explore Basic Mechanisms of Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasma

Phenomena like solar flares and auroras are consequences of magnetic reconnection in the near-Earth space. These "magnetic reconnection" events are akin to magnetic explosions that accelerate particles as they rapidly change the topology of the magnetic field lines.

5 Oct 2016

Conduction Mechanism Could Lead to New Forms of Energy Conversion

Conduction mechanisms using recent innovations in 2D materials could eventually lead to new forms of energy conversion and high-resolution scanning machines, including those used in quality control for manufacturing and also in airports.

4 Oct 2016

New AVA Research and Training Network Looks at Mysterious Particles

Professor Carsten P. Welsch of the Cockcroft Institute and Head of the Physics Department at the University of Liverpool explains that a new research and training network called AVA, ‘Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics’, is looking at the mysterious particles that are thought to mirror those in the ‘real’ world.

3 Oct 2016

MPQ Scientists Observe Emergence of Antiferromagnetic Correlations in Fermionic Atoms

Solid state physics offers a rich variety of intriguing phenomena, several of which are not yet fully understood.

30 Sep 2016

ALMA Discovers Stunning Spiral-Shape Pinwheel of Dust Around Young Star Elias 2-27

Swirling around the young star Elias 2-27 is a stunning spiral-shape pinwheel of dust. This striking feature, seen with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), is the product of density waves – gravitational perturbations in the star's protoplanetary disk that produce sweeping arms reminiscent of a spiral galaxy, but on a much smaller scale.

30 Sep 2016

Researchers Explore How Magnetic Fluctuations Arise in Unconventional, High-Temperature Superconductors

New findings from researchers at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) suggest that condensed-matter physicists need to rethink how magnetic fluctuations arise in both unconventional and high-temperature superconductors.

30 Sep 2016

Japanese Researchers Use ALMA to Observe Massive Star in Neighbouring Dwarf Galaxy

A team of Japanese researchers have used the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a massive star known as ST11 in our neighbouring dwarf galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

30 Sep 2016

CERN’s LHCb Experiment Could Help Physicists Solve Longstanding Mystery of the Universe

One of the biggest challenges in physics is to understand why everything we see in our universe seems to be formed only of matter, whereas the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter.

29 Sep 2016

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Researchers Provide Evidence for Shift in Geometric Model of Supermassive Black Holes

Particle Accelerators on the Verge of Transformational Breakthroughs with Advances in Computing Power

Scientists to Develop Modeling, Simulation Applications for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics and Chemistry Research

Three Researchers Awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for Revealing Exotic Phases of Matter

Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Material Could Lead to New Generation of Computing Devices

Stability of Qubits Could be Maintained Effectively in Silicon than in Gallium Arsenide

New Mathematical Model Could Help Understand How Type Ia Supernovae Form

Scientists Use New PIC Simulator to Explore Basic Mechanisms of Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasma

Conduction Mechanism Could Lead to New Forms of Energy Conversion

New AVA Research and Training Network Looks at Mysterious Particles

MPQ Scientists Observe Emergence of Antiferromagnetic Correlations in Fermionic Atoms

ALMA Discovers Stunning Spiral-Shape Pinwheel of Dust Around Young Star Elias 2-27

Researchers Explore How Magnetic Fluctuations Arise in Unconventional, High-Temperature Superconductors

Japanese Researchers Use ALMA to Observe Massive Star in Neighbouring Dwarf Galaxy

CERN’s LHCb Experiment Could Help Physicists Solve Longstanding Mystery of the Universe

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