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Scientists Review State-of-the-Art in Polarimetry to Study Cosmic Dust and other Celestial Bodies

The solar system is full of various small bodies such as planetary moons, main belt asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, Centaurs, trans-Neptunian objects and comets. To study them, scientists typically analyse the radiation they reflect, which is referred to as polarimetry. Scientists not only focus on the intensity of the scattered radiation, but also on how photons oscillate in the plane perpendicular to their direction of propagation - that is, their polarisation.

12 Oct 2017

UK Government Makes Strategic Investment in Next Generation of Particle Physics Experiments

The UK government has announced a £65 million strategic investment in the next generation of particle physics experiments.

12 Oct 2017

Nuclear Physicists Explore the Exotic Properties of Quarks and Gluons

As nuclear physicists delve ever deeper into the heart of matter, they require the tools to reveal the next layer of nature's secrets. Nowhere is that more true than in computational nuclear physics.

12 Oct 2017

Astronomers Shed Light on Importance of Hydrogen Atoms in Star Formation

Astronomers have shed fresh light on the importance of hydrogen atoms in the birth of new stars.

11 Oct 2017

FAU Researchers Develop New Particle Accelerator that Fits on a Microchip

The largest particle accelerator in the world – the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland – has a circumference of around 26 kilometres.

11 Oct 2017

Adding Plasmonic Metamaterials to Spintronic Devices Could Enhance Spin-Current Generation

Over the last few years, researchers have demonstrated that light can serve as a spin-current generator, creating currents of angular momentum, in optical nanostructures known as plasmonic absorbers, opening up a new branch of spintronics called opto-spintronics.

11 Oct 2017

Physicists Use Spinning Molecules Technique to Measure Roundness of Electron

JILA physicists have for the first time used their spinning molecules technique to measure the “roundness” of the electron, confirming the leading results from another group and suggesting that more precise assessments are possible.

11 Oct 2017

New Photodetector Senses Light by Combining Two Distinct Inorganic Materials

A photodetector has been developed by Physicists at the University of California, Riverside. This photodetector senses light by incorporating two diverse inorganic materials and generating quantum mechanical processes capable of revolutionizing the way solar energy is collected.

10 Oct 2017

Investigations of Nuclei and Nuclear Interactions

The evolution and configuration of the matter of which we and our world are formed were started by the Big Bang.

9 Oct 2017

Non-Abelian Anyon Observed in Bilayer Graphene

A research group headed by assistant professor of physics Cory Dean from Columbia University and Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering James Hone from Columbia Engineering has for sure noticed an ever more analyzed anomaly in the field of condensed matter physics, that is, the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state, by adopting transport measurement in bilayer graphene.

9 Oct 2017