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Spiral Arms of Molecular Gas and Dust Found Around Binary Protostars

With the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taiwan, found spiral arms of molecular gas and dust around the "baby twin" stars, binary protostars.

10 Dec 2014

Compact, High-Value Resistors for Nanoscale Quantum Circuits

Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology have made new compact, high-value resistors for nanoscale quantum circuits. The resistors could speed the development of quantum devices for computing and fundamental physics research. The researchers describe the thin-film resistors in an article in the Journal of Applied Physics, from AIP Publishing.

9 Dec 2014

Homestake Gold Mine Houses Physics Experiments That Need to be Shielded from Cosmic Radiation

“What really impressed me was the trip down,” said astrophysicist James Buckley, PhD, speaking of the vertical mile he traveled to get to the site of an underground dark-matter experiment. “You can see you’re moving at a pretty good clip, which, by the way, is three times slower than the cage used to drop when it was a mine. It took us 10 minutes to get down a mile. You just watch the earth flashing by and every once in a while you go past a boarded up tunnel.”

9 Dec 2014

Researchers Accelerate Subatomic Particles to Highest Energies Using Compact Laser-Plasma Accelerator

Using one of the most powerful lasers in the world, researchers have accelerated subatomic particles to the highest energies ever recorded from a compact accelerator.

9 Dec 2014

Scientists Explain Formation of Mysterious Finger-Like Plasma Structures in Sun’s Corona

The Sun is bubbling, forming mysterious finger-like plasma structures in its gaseous envelope, the corona. A German-American team headed by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research has now succeeded in explaining these filigree-like forms.

8 Dec 2014

Southwest Quantum Technologies Group Follow-up Meeting to be Held in Bristol

On November 19th and 20th the inaugural Southwest Quantum Technologies group kick-off meeting was held at the University of Exeter; over 50 participants from the GW4 universities (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter and beyond) attended, including the keynote speaker Prof. Philippe Grangier from Institut d'Optique in Paris.

8 Dec 2014

CQT PI’s "Seeing Without Looking" Quantum Thriller Wins Top Prize

It takes creativity to be a good research scientist, and sometimes that creativity spills over into other spheres.

8 Dec 2014

Dawn Spacecraft Delivers New Image of Dwarf Planet Ceres

The Dawn spacecraft has delivered a glimpse of Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, in a new image taken 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from the dwarf planet. This is Dawn's best image yet of Ceres as the spacecraft makes its way toward this unexplored world.

8 Dec 2014

Surge of Warm Gas Agitates Chilled Gas to Extinguish Star Formation

Some like it hot, but for creating new stars, a cool cosmic environment is ideal. As a new study suggests, a surge of warm gas into a nearby galaxy -- left over from the devouring of a separate galaxy -- has extinguished star formation by agitating the available chilled gas.

8 Dec 2014

Most Massive Stars are made up by Merging with Other Smaller Stars, MY Cam Study Reveals

A study of "MY Camelopardalis" binary system, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows that the most massive stars are made up by merging with other smaller stars, as predicted by theoretical models.

8 Dec 2014