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Prototyping of Ultrasensitive Eye for Dark Matter Makes Rapid Progress at SLAC

Prototyping of a new, ultrasensitive “eye” for dark matter is making rapid progress at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Researchers and engineers have installed a small-scale version of the future LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.

2 Jun 2016

UAH Professor Detects First High-Energy Astrophysical Source from Moon

A University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor and astrophysicist has detected the first high-energy astrophysical source from the moon.

2 Jun 2016

Study Results Provide New Insights into Formation of Elliptical Galaxies

It all starts from a problem with dust: galaxies with the highest rates of star formation are also the "dustiest", because the violent process of star formation produces gas and heavy molecules.

2 Jun 2016

New Technique for Producing Polarized Positrons

Researchers use accelerators to coax the electron into performing a wide range of tricks to enable medical tests and treatments, improve product manufacturing, and power breakthrough scientific research. Now, they’re learning how to coax the same tricks out of the electron’s antimatter twin – the positron – to open up a whole new vista of research and applications.

2 Jun 2016

International Team Observes Radio Emission from Hydrogen in Distant Galaxy

An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away-almost double the previous record.

2 Jun 2016

Scientists Devise New Interferometer to Probe Geometry of Band Structures

Scientists at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) have devised a new interferometer to probe the geometry of band structures.

2 Jun 2016

Nobel Prize Laureate Carl Wieman Recognized with 2016 Gutenberg Teaching Award

The 2016 Gutenberg Teaching Award has been given to Professor Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize laureate in Physics. The Gutenberg Teaching Council (GTC) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is thus recognizing the achievements of an outstanding researcher who, in addition to making breakthroughs in the field of quantum optics, has contributed impressively to the dissemination of knowledge and the quality of academic teaching.

1 Jun 2016

New Solution to Measure Mass of the Milky Way

It is a galactic challenge, to be sure, but Gwendolyn Eadie is getting closer to an accurate answer to a question that has defined her early career in astrophysics: what is the mass of the Milky Way?

1 Jun 2016

PPPL Physicist Performs Experiments that Indicate Efficiency of Coaxial Helicity Injection for Fusion Machines

Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University has for the first time performed computer simulations indicating the efficiency of a start-up technique for doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks.

1 Jun 2016

Researchers Get $3 Million DOE Grant to Build Short-Distance Neutrino Detection Device for PROSPECT Experiment

Buoyed by a $3 million federal grant, an experiment led by Yale University with partners from four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, and 10 universities will explore key questions about elusive particles called neutrinos—and potentially improve the way we monitor and safeguard nuclear reactors in the process.

1 Jun 2016