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Cornell-Led Scientists Awarded $23 Million NSF Grant to Increase Brightness of Charged Particle Beams

A collaboration of scientists, led by Cornell University, has been awarded $23 million by the National Science Foundation to increase the intensity of beams of charged particles while lowering the cost of key accelerator technologies.

27 Sep 2016

NSE Graduate Student Uses Particle Physics to Solve Nuclear Weapon Disarmament Problems

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) graduate student Jayson Vavrek got his start in high-energy particle physics looking for the smallest forms of matter in the universe. Now at MIT, he uses the same tools and principles to verify nuclear weapons.

27 Sep 2016

University of Barcelona Researchers Find Simple, Exact Way to Merge Two Black Holes

The merger of two black holes, such as the one which produced the gravitational waves discovered by the LIGO Observatory, is considered an extremely complex process that can only be simulated by the world's most powerful supercomputers.

27 Sep 2016

Next-Generation Dark Matter Detector to Begin Deep-Underground Hunt for Theoretical Particles in 2020

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles known as WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, in 2020.

27 Sep 2016

Optical Torque Measurement Holds Potential for Industrial and Consumer Applications

Researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering have measured the twisting force, or torque, generated by light on a silicon chip.

27 Sep 2016

Research Reveals Universe Expands Uniformly in all Directions

A study headed by UCL highlights that the universe is uniformly expanding and that space is not actually spinning or stretching in a chosen direction.

26 Sep 2016

Distinguished Alumnus Returns to University of Texas at Austin to Talk About Dawn of New Astronomy

“We did it!” announced physics alum David Reitze to the world on February 11, 2016 – breaking the news of perhaps the biggest scientific discovery of our time.

26 Sep 2016

Instrument for Detecting Molecules in Cosmos to be Developed by Cornell Researchers

A new, third-generation instrument will be positioned on NASA’s SOFIA to help discover the detailed building blocks of life in the cosmos. SOFIA is the airliner-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.

23 Sep 2016

New ALMA Observations Provide New Insights into Golden Age of Galaxy Formation

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has explored the same distant corner of the universe first revealed in the iconic image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF).

23 Sep 2016

Innovative Multiferroic Material Could Open Door to Ultra Low-Power Electronic Devices

Scientists have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, an achievement that could open doors to ultra low-power microprocessors, storage devices and next-generation electronics.

22 Sep 2016

Quantum Physics News

Cornell-Led Scientists Awarded $23 Million NSF Grant to Increase Brightness of Charged Particle Beams

NSE Graduate Student Uses Particle Physics to Solve Nuclear Weapon Disarmament Problems

University of Barcelona Researchers Find Simple, Exact Way to Merge Two Black Holes

Next-Generation Dark Matter Detector to Begin Deep-Underground Hunt for Theoretical Particles in 2020

Optical Torque Measurement Holds Potential for Industrial and Consumer Applications

Research Reveals Universe Expands Uniformly in all Directions

Distinguished Alumnus Returns to University of Texas at Austin to Talk About Dawn of New Astronomy

Instrument for Detecting Molecules in Cosmos to be Developed by Cornell Researchers

New ALMA Observations Provide New Insights into Golden Age of Galaxy Formation

Innovative Multiferroic Material Could Open Door to Ultra Low-Power Electronic Devices

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