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ASU Origins Project Honors Groundbreaking Work in Exploring Astrophysics of the Early Universe

The Origins Project at Arizona State University awarded its first Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship to Adrian Liu of the University of California, Berkeley. The award, the largest of its kind in the world, is in recognition of Liu’s groundbreaking early career work in exploring the astrophysics of the early universe. It includes a $10,000 prize.

18 Mar 2015

Physicists Collaborate to Perform Complex Accelerator Simulations for Developing World’s Highest Intensity Particle Beams

On March 2, 1995, just below and unbeknownst to the small herd of bison that graze the grounds of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), protons and antiprotons raced toward each other at energies near the speed of light. Two detectors within the four mile-long tube of Fermilab’s Tevatron captured those impacts, revealing to physicists, for the first time, the top quark.

18 Mar 2015

Lasers for Cooling Nanospheres May Help Create Quantum Phenomena in Larger Objects

A team of scientists at UCL led by Peter Barker and Tania Monteiro (UCL Physics and Astronomy) has developed a new technology which could one day create quantum phenomena in objects far larger than any achieved so far. The team successfully suspended glass particles 400 nanometres across in a vacuum using an electric field, then used lasers to cool them to within a few degrees of absolute zero. These are the key prerequisites for making an object behave according to quantum principles.

18 Mar 2015

Scientists Examine Detailed "Time Lapse" X-Ray Image of Expansion of GK Persei Nova Explosion

Scientists in a collaboration led by Dai Takei of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Japan have, for the first time, examined a detailed 'time lapse' X-ray image of the expansion of a classical nova explosion using the GK Persei nova -- a binary star system which underwent a nova explosion in 1901.

18 Mar 2015

NASA Offers New Asteroid Hunting Application

A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers.

17 Mar 2015

Four Brookhaven Lab Scientists Honored as American Physical Society Fellows

Four scientists who have made significant contributions to ongoing research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory were among those recently named Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), the world's second-largest organization of physicists. Election to APS Fellowship is limited to no more than one half of one percent of its membership in a given year, and election for this honor indicates recognition by scientific peers for exceptional contributions to physics.

16 Mar 2015

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft Positioned to Study Magnetic Reconnection

Following a successful launch at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are positioned in Earth's orbit to begin the first space mission dedicated to the study of a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. This process is thought to be the catalyst for some of the most powerful explosions in our solar system.

16 Mar 2015

Global-Scale Maps of Mercury's Surface Chemistry Reveal Previously Unrecognized Geochemical Terranes

Two new papers from members of the MESSENGER Science Team provide global-scale maps of Mercury's surface chemistry that reveal previously unrecognized geochemical terranes -- large regions that have compositions distinct from their surroundings. The presence of these large terranes has important implications for the history of the planet.

16 Mar 2015

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Ready to Start up Again

The 27 km long subterranean particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is ready to start up again. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. After a break of two years, which was a technical stop to prepare the machinery to run at almost double the energy levels, they are ready to start a new three-year period.

16 Mar 2015

Hubble Provides Best Evidence for Underground Saltwater Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface.

16 Mar 2015

Quantum Physics News

ASU Origins Project Honors Groundbreaking Work in Exploring Astrophysics of the Early Universe

Physicists Collaborate to Perform Complex Accelerator Simulations for Developing World’s Highest Intensity Particle Beams

Lasers for Cooling Nanospheres May Help Create Quantum Phenomena in Larger Objects

Scientists Examine Detailed "Time Lapse" X-Ray Image of Expansion of GK Persei Nova Explosion

NASA Offers New Asteroid Hunting Application

Four Brookhaven Lab Scientists Honored as American Physical Society Fellows

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft Positioned to Study Magnetic Reconnection

Global-Scale Maps of Mercury's Surface Chemistry Reveal Previously Unrecognized Geochemical Terranes

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Ready to Start up Again

Hubble Provides Best Evidence for Underground Saltwater Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon

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