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Leicester Scientists Pay Homage to NASA’s Swift Satellite and X-ray Telescope

The team at the UK Swift Science Data Centre, based at the University of Leicester, pays homage to NASA’s unique space telescope

20 Nov 2014

Gravity May Have Provided the Stability Needed for Early Universe to Survive Expansion

New research by a team of European physicists could explain why the universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang.

19 Nov 2014

Comparisons Between Atomic Clocks Confirm Constancy of Fundamental Constant

Atomic clocks prove the stability of the mass ratio of protons to electrons

19 Nov 2014

New Way to Detect Existence of Elusive Dark Matter

For years physicists have been looking for the universe's elusive dark matter, but so far no one has seen any trace of it. Maybe we are looking in the wrong place? Now physicists from University of Southern Denmark propose a new technique to detect dark matter.

19 Nov 2014

Quantum Gravity Studies of the Start of the Universe Cannot Be Avoided

Roger Penrose and Steven Hawking won recognition for their work on spacetime singularities in the sixties, suggesting an initial start to the universe

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 19 Nov 2014

Physicists Engineer Spiral Laser Beam to Create Quantum Whirlpool

Physicists have engineered a spiral laser beam and used it to create a whirlpool of hybrid light-matter particles called polaritons, hybrid particles that have properties of both matter and light and could link electronics with photonics

19 Nov 2014

UW-Madison Physicist Involved in Building the IceCube Wins 2014 American Ingenuity Award

Francis Halzen, the University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who was the driving force behind the giant neutrino telescope known as IceCube at the South Pole, has been named a winner of the 2014 American Ingenuity Award.

19 Nov 2014

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission Help Create Geologic Maps of Asteroid Vesta

Images from NASA's Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail. These maps are included with a series of 11 scientific papers published this week in a special issue of the journal Icarus.

18 Nov 2014

Global Positioning System May Help Detect and Measure Elusive Dark Matter

The everyday use of a GPS device might be to find your way around town or even navigate a hiking trail, but for two physicists, the Global Positioning System might be a tool in directly detecting and measuring dark matter, so far an elusive but ubiquitous form of matter responsible for the formation of galaxies.

18 Nov 2014

JQI Researchers Create the Best Quantum Receiver

Researchers try to meet the inexorable demands made on the telecommunications grid by improving various components. In October 2014, for instance, scientists at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands did their part by setting a new record for transmission down a single optical fiber: 255 terabits per second.

18 Nov 2014