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New LMT Observations Provide Key Insights into Star-Forming Centers of Galaxies

Astronomers working to estimate the rate of star formation inside murky distant galaxies, those shrouded in dust clouds that make it very difficult to study them, have published data from a brand new instrument, providing the most precise picture yet of what happened 4 billion years ago at their hidden centers.

10 Nov 2014

New Analysis Says Existing CERN Data About Higgs Particle was Inconclusive

Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.

10 Nov 2014

Seemingly Simple Phase Changes May Be More Complex Than Previously Known

The seemingly simple process of phase changes--those transitions between states of matter--is more complex than previously known, according to research based at Princeton University, Peking University and New York University.

7 Nov 2014

Astronomers Capture Best Image Ever of Planet Formation around Infant Star

Astronomers have captured the best image ever of planet formation around an infant star as part of the testing and verification process for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array's (ALMA) new high-resolution capabilities.

7 Nov 2014

Caltech Astronomers Detect Diffuse Cosmic Glow

Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more light than that produced by known galaxies in the universe.

7 Nov 2014

Hubble Completes Sensitive Visible-Light Imaging Survey of Dusty Debris Disks Around Stars

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of dusty debris disks around other stars. These dusty disks, likely created by collisions between leftover objects from planet formation, were imaged around stars as young as 10 million years old and as mature as more than 1 billion years old.

7 Nov 2014

Novel Carbon Nanotube Mechanical Resonator May Enable Exciting Quantum Systems

In a recent paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, Joel Moser and ICFO colleagues of the NanoOptoMechanics research group led by Prof. Adrian Bachtold, together with Marc Dykman (Michigan University), report on an experiment in which a carbon nanotube mechanical resonator exhibits quality factors of up to 5 million, 30 times better than the best quality factors measured in nanotubes to date.

7 Nov 2014

U.Va.’s Accomplished Faculty Researchers Named as Distinguished Scientists

Two of the University of Virginia’s most accomplished faculty researchers – physicist Brad Cox and astronomer John Hawley – have been selected as 2014 Distinguished Scientists.

6 Nov 2014

Researchers Solve One of the Most Famous Problems in Quantum Information Physics

Since 1999, the conjecture by Asher Peres, who invented quantum teleportation, has piqued the interest of many scientists in the field. According to his hypothesis, the weakest form of quantum entanglement can never result in the strongest manifestation of the phenomenon.

6 Nov 2014

Scientists Demonstrate Practicality of Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles have shown that a promising technique for accelerating electrons on waves of plasma is efficient enough to power a new generation of shorter, more economical accelerators. This could greatly expand their use in areas such as medicine, national security, industry and high-energy physics research.

6 Nov 2014