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Barry Simon Receives 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Major Contributions in Mathematical Physics

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS) announced that Barry Simon of Caltech is the recipient of the 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, which is awarded annually to honor significant contributions to the field.

23 Oct 2017

Cold Physics Experiments Could Provide Much Greater Understanding of Quantum Mechanics

It is said that what goes up must come down. Thank gravity for that. But sometimes gravitational effects affect matter on Earth in ways that physicists would rather do without.

23 Oct 2017

New Simulation Protocol Could Help Better Understanding of Quantum Mechanics

A step closer to understanding quantum mechanics: Swansea University's Physicists develop a new quantum simulation protocol

23 Oct 2017

Mars has Invisible Magnetic Tail, Finds NASA's MAVEN Mission

Mars has an invisible magnetic “tail” that is twisted by interaction with the solar wind, according to new research using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.

20 Oct 2017

Collision of Neutron Stars Proves General Relativity Prediction of Einstein

A global scientific project has finally observed the collision of neutron stars, directly, for the first time, with great significance for cracking enduring challenges in astrophysics around gravitational waves and gamma ray bursts.

20 Oct 2017

NASA Scientists Identify Lethal Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission discovered evidence of a deadly hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high over the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

19 Oct 2017

Neturon Star Collision Produces Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO

Physicists have detected gravitational waves, for the very first time, from the collision of two neutron stars. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made this observation. LIGO is a collaborative project with more than one thousand researchers from over 20 countries, including the University of Minnesota.

19 Oct 2017

Collision Between Two Massive Neutron Stars Seen for First Time

For the first time in history, astronomers have come up with direct detection of gravitational waves as well as light from a single cosmic event—a collision of two huge neutron stars.

19 Oct 2017

Research Uses New Quantum Computing Technique to Solve Physics Problem

Scientists from Caltech and the University of Southern California (USC) have given an account of the first use of quantum computing to solve a physics problem. They used quantum-compatible machine learning methods to devise a technique for acquiring an uncommon Higgs boson signal from extensive amounts of noise data.

19 Oct 2017

Hubble Space Telescope Detects Gravitational Waves from a Neutron Star Collision

Weak ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves washed over Earth on Aug. 17, 2017. Unlike earlier detected gravitational waves, these were escorted by light, permitting astronomers to pinpoint the source.

19 Oct 2017