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SLS Researchers Investigate Superconductor YBCO Using Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy

Swedish materials researchers at Linköping and Uppsala University and Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Swiss Synchrotron Light Source (SLS) in Switzerland investigated the superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-x (abbreviated YBCO) using advanced X-ray spectroscopy.

17 Nov 2014

Intrepid Explorer to Discuss Interstellar Voyaging

For Cameron Smith, the final frontier has become the next frontier. The anthropologist and adventurer will discuss, during a live webcast public lecture at Perimeter Institute on Dec. 3, the challenges that await future generations as they leave our earthly home for the stars.

17 Nov 2014

New Central Stars in Very Compact Galaxies Can Eject Gas into Space

One of the mysteries of the Universe is the question of how all the galaxies we see around us came to be.

17 Nov 2014

New Theoretical Model May Help Detect Black Holes Throughout the Universe

A team of Cardiff University researchers have made a breakthrough in helping scientists discover hundreds of black holes throughout the universe.

14 Nov 2014

Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole May be Producing Neutrinos

The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos. If confirmed, this would be the first time that scientists have traced neutrinos back to a black hole.

14 Nov 2014

Astronomers Solve Mystery of Why Compact, Young Galaxies Become Galactic Ruins

Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the “better to burn out than to fade away” credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young “starburst” galaxies — ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular hydrogen gas up to 100 times faster than our own Milky Way — would shut down their prodigious star formation to join a category scientists call “red and dead.”

14 Nov 2014

Researchers Uncover "Smoking-Gun" Evidence to Confirm Workings of Topological Insulators

Researches have uncovered "smoking-gun" evidence to confirm the workings of an emerging class of materials that could make possible "spintronic" devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies.

14 Nov 2014

Study Results Provide New Insights into High-Temperature Superconductivity

A study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests for the first time how scientists might deliberately engineer superconductors that work at higher temperatures.

13 Nov 2014

Texas Tech University Chemical Physicist Develops New Theory of Quantum Mechanics

A Texas Tech University chemical physicist has developed a new theory of quantum mechanics that presumes not only that parallel worlds exist, but also that their mutual interaction is what gives rise to all quantum effects observed in nature.

13 Nov 2014

Bustling Galaxies Create Stars at a Breakneck Rate

Peering deep into time with one of the world's newest, most sophisticated telescopes, astronomers have found a galaxy - AzTEC-3 - that gives birth annually to 500 times the number of suns as the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new Cornell University-led study published Nov. 10 in the Astrophysical Journal.

13 Nov 2014