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UCSB Physicists’ New Device Could Provide Conclusive Evidence for Existence of Quantum Particle

What kinds of ‘particles’ are allowed by nature? The answer lies in the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes the microscopic world.

7 Nov 2017

GMTO Initiates Casting of Fifth Mirror for Giant Magellan Telescope

The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) has announced that it has started the casting of the fifth of seven mirrors that will form the center of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT).

6 Nov 2017

ALMA Observatory Detects Dust Around the Closest Star to the Solar System

Dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri, has been detected by the ALMA Observatory in Chile. These new observations expose the glow generating from cold dust in a region between one to four times as far from Proxima Centauri as the Earth is from the Sun.

6 Nov 2017

CALET Successfully Measures High Energy Electrons in Space

The CALET Cosmic Ray experiment, headed by Professor Shoji Torii from Waseda University in Japan, together with partners from LSU and other researchers in the U.S. and abroad, have successfully performed the high-precision measurement of cosmic-ray electron spectrum up to 3 tera electron volts (TeV) by employing the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the Japanese Experimental Module, the Exposed Facility on the International Space Station (ISS).

6 Nov 2017

Scientists Demonstrate How to Speed Up Frequency Measurement

An accurate analog clock tick-tick-ticks with a well-known frequency and constant precision: one tick per second. The longer it is let tick, the better it is to test its accuracy — 10 times as long corresponds to a ten-fold enhancement in any frequency uncertainty. However, is there a faster way to determine a frequency?

3 Nov 2017

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Nearby Asteroids Photobombing Deep Images of the Universe

Like rude relatives who jump in front of your vacation snapshots of landscapes, some of our solar system's asteroids have photobombed deep images of the universe taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

3 Nov 2017

New Research Sheds Light on Matter Accretion Process on Surface of Young Stars

An international team of researchers from multiple institutions, including INRS, is shedding light on the mystery of matter accretion in young stars.

3 Nov 2017

New Family of Mathematical Models Exhibit Broad Array of Quantum Particle Interactions

In physics, the conundrum known as the "few-body problem," how three or more interacting particles behave, has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Equations that describe the physics of few-body systems are usually unsolvable and the methods used to find solutions are unstable.

2 Nov 2017

Researchers Earn Grant to Investigate Galaxies that Extend Along ‘Cosmic Web’ of Filaments

Astronomer Gregory Rudnick sees the universe crisscrossed by something like an interstellar superhighway system. Filaments — the strands of aggregated matter that stretch millions of light years across the universe to connect galaxy clusters — are the freeways.

2 Nov 2017

New Strategy Uses Superfluid Helium to Detect Interactions Between Dark Matter

Physicists from Brown University have devised a new strategy for directly detecting dark matter, the elusive material thought to account for the majority of matter in the universe.

2 Nov 2017