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Point-Like Monopole Observed in Quantum Field

Researchers at Aalto University (Finland) and Amherst College (USA) have observed a point-like monopole in a quantum field itself for the first time. This discovery connects to important characteristics of the elusive monopole magnet. The results were just published in Science magazine.

4 May 2015

Physicists Discuss Future of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Project

For the past several years, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) have been planning the construction of and developing technologies for a very special instrument that will create the most extensive three-dimensional map of the universe to date. Called DESI for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, this project will trace the growth history of the universe rather like the way you might track your child’s height with pencil marks climbing up a doorframe. But DESI will start from the present and work back into the past.

4 May 2015

New Horizons LORRI Camera Captures Bright and Dark Regions on Pluto’s Surface

For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto – the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July.

30 Apr 2015

Mysterious Glow of High-Energy X-Rays Could Be "Howls" of Dead Stars

Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays that, according to scientists, could be the "howls" of dead stars as they feed on stellar companions.

30 Apr 2015

Sunspots May Be Involved in Hitherto Unknown Physical Processes

The famous sunspots on the surface of the Earth's star result from the dynamics of strong magnetic fields, and their numbers are an important indicator of the state of activity on the Sun.

30 Apr 2015

Lyncean Announces Commercial Operation of Miniature Synchrotron X-Ray Source

Lyncean Technologies, Inc. today announced the commercial operation of a Compact Light Source (CLS), the world's first miniature synchrotron X-ray source employing state-of-the-art laser and electron beam technology.

30 Apr 2015

Light Can Push Matter Million Times More with the Help of a Superconducting Island

When a mirror reflects light, it experiences a slight push. This radiation pressure can be increased considerably with the help of a small superconducting island. This was revealed by the joint research done in the Aalto University and the Universities of Jyväskylä and Oulu.

30 Apr 2015

Intermittent Explosive Bursts of Heat Behind the Mystery of Coronal Heating

The sun's surface is blisteringly hot at 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit -- but its atmosphere is another 300 times hotter. This has led to an enduring mystery for those who study the sun: What heats the atmosphere to such extreme temperatures? Normally when you move away from a hot source the environment gets cooler, but some mechanism is clearly at work in the solar atmosphere, the corona, to bring the temperatures up so high.

30 Apr 2015

Swedish Physicist and Cosmologist Named Recipient of KTH Great Prize

Physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark has been named the recipient of this year's Great Prize from Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The MIT scientist earned his master's degree in engineering physics at KTH in 1990.

30 Apr 2015

Using Game Theory Physicists Shown How Bosons Can Form Multiple Groups

Quantum particles behave in strange ways and are often difficult to study experimentally. Using mathematical methods drawn from game theory, physicists of Ludwig-Maximilias-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown how bosons, which like to enter the same state, can form multiple groups.

29 Apr 2015