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Subatomic Particles Could be Induced to Speed up by Themselves

Some physical principles have been considered immutable since the time of Isaac Newton: Light always travels in straight lines. No physical object can change its speed unless some outside force acts on it.

22 Jan 2015

High Magnetization Sets the Stage for Formation of Massive Stars

Magnetic fields in massive dark clouds are strong enough to support the regions against collapse due to their own gravity. A study lead by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has now shown for the first time that high magnetization sets the stage for the formation of stars much more massive than the sun. This was demonstrated in observations of polarized dust emission from two of the most massive clouds in our Milky Way, the “Brick” and “Snake”.

21 Jan 2015

Heaviest Elements May Not Be Formed in Standard Supernovae

Scientists plumbing the depths of the ocean have made a surprise finding that could change the way we understand supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system.

21 Jan 2015

UBC Physicists Detect 'Charge Ordering' in Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

University of British Columbia physicists have detected 'charge ordering' in electron-doped cuprate superconductors for the first time, according to research published last week in Science.

20 Jan 2015

Scientists Join Forces to Put Together Biggest Map of the Universe

Scientists from around the world have joined forces to lay the foundations for an experiment of truly astronomical proportions: putting together the biggest map of the Universe ever made.

20 Jan 2015

Astronomers Observe 'Fast Radio Burst’ as it Happens

A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening - a 'fast radio burst'. The eruption is described as an extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from an unknown source in the universe. The results have been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

20 Jan 2015

Principal Investigator of NuSTAR Awarded 2015 Rossi Prize in High-Energy Astrophysics

The 2015 Rossi Prize has been awarded to Fiona Harrison, a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, for her "groundbreaking work on supernova remnants, neutron stars and black holes enabled by NuSTAR." NuSTAR is NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array mission. The award, granted by the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD), is the top prize in high-energy astrophysics.

19 Jan 2015

Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Honored with 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced today that Johns Hopkins University's Marc Kamionkowski is a winner of the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, one of the top prizes in the field which is awarded annually to outstanding mid-career scientists.

19 Jan 2015

SLAC Staff Physicist Honored as Fellow of American Physical Society

SLAC staff physicist Peter Rowson has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, the largest physics association in the world. APS confers this distinction on a small percentage of the society’s membership; it is especially significant because it is a peer-nominated honor.

19 Jan 2015

New Study on Anthropic Principle in Astrophysics and Particle Physics

For nearly half a century, theoretical physicists have made a series of discoveries that certain constants in fundamental physics seem extraordinarily fine-tuned to allow for the emergence of a life-enabling universe.

19 Jan 2015

Quantum Physics News

Subatomic Particles Could be Induced to Speed up by Themselves

High Magnetization Sets the Stage for Formation of Massive Stars

Heaviest Elements May Not Be Formed in Standard Supernovae

UBC Physicists Detect 'Charge Ordering' in Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

Scientists Join Forces to Put Together Biggest Map of the Universe

Astronomers Observe 'Fast Radio Burst’ as it Happens

Principal Investigator of NuSTAR Awarded 2015 Rossi Prize in High-Energy Astrophysics

Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Honored with 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize

SLAC Staff Physicist Honored as Fellow of American Physical Society

New Study on Anthropic Principle in Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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