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Unique Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy Enables Spin-Orbitronics Research

Few among us may know what magnetic domains are but we make use of them daily when we email files, post images, or download music or video to our personal devices.

15 Apr 2015

Scientists Release Dark Matter Maps of the Cosmos

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey have released the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos. These maps, created with one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, are the largest contiguous maps created at this level of detail and will improve our understanding of dark matter's role in the formation of galaxies.

15 Apr 2015

Violent Methane Storms in Titan's Atmosphere May Be the Cause of Mysterious Sand Dunes

With its thick, hazy atmosphere and surface rivers, mountains, lakes and dunes, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is one of the most Earthlike places in the solar system.

15 Apr 2015

Spitzer and OGLE Discover Remote Gas Planet About 13,000 Light-Years Away

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.

15 Apr 2015

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Shatters Own Record for Producing Polarized Proton Collisions

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a powerful particle accelerator for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, just shattered its own record for producing polarized proton collisions at 200-giga-electron-volt (GeV) collision energy.

15 Apr 2015

University of Bristol Particle Physics Research Group Celebrates Restart of the Large Hadron Collider

Scientists from the Particle Physics Research Group at the University of Bristol are celebrating the restarting of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today, after two years of upgrade work.

13 Apr 2015

New Classification of Charge Density Waves Based Upon Their Nature, Proposed By Physicists

LSU Professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Ward Plummer and Jiandi Zhang, in collaboration with their colleagues from the Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 112, pg. 2367) titled "Classification of Charge Density Waves based on their Nature." This work is a result of a collaboration funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

13 Apr 2015

Physicists Model Particle Production Inside of Gamma-Ray Bursts

A new study provides an inside look at the most powerful explosions in the universe: gamma-ray bursts.

13 Apr 2015

Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe Might Not Be as Fast as Believed

Certain types of supernovae, or exploding stars, are more diverse than previously thought, a University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has discovered. The results, reported in two papers published in the Astrophysical Journal, have implications for big cosmological questions, such as how fast the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang.

13 Apr 2015

Infernal Atmospheric Conditions in HD189733b Exoplanet

As part of the PlanetS National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), astronomers from the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Bern, Switzerland, have come to measure the temperature of the atmosphere of an exoplanet with unequalled precision, by crossing two approaches.

13 Apr 2015