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First CERN Beam Line for Schools Competition Announced

CERN today announced the winners of its first beam line for schools competition. Following almost 300 submissions from school groups around the world, two teams have been selected to come to CERN to carry out their own experiments at a CERN beam line. The winners are the “Odysseus' Comrades” team from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and the “Dominicuscollege” team from Dominicus College in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

9 Jun 2014

NWO Honors Experimental Physicist with Spinoza Prize

Experimental physicist Dirk Bouwmeester, archaeologist Corinne Hofman, environmental technologist Mark van Loosdrecht and migratory bird ecologist Theunis Piersma have received the NWO Spinoza Prize 2014 from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. This was announced today by Jos Engelen, chair of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

9 Jun 2014

Zero Chance of Impact from Newfound Asteroid

A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon.

9 Jun 2014

Researchers Develop Polariton Laser Fueled by Electrical Current

With precarious particles called polaritons that straddle the worlds of light and matter, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a new, practical and potentially more efficient way to make a coherent laser-like beam.

6 Jun 2014

Spacetime Can Become Turbulent

Fasten your seatbelts – gravity is about to get bumpy.

6 Jun 2014

No Evidence Found for Existence of Majorana Neutrinos

The Majorana nature of neutrinos and the neutrinoless double-beta decay
Neutrinos are tiny, neutral elementary particles that, contrary to the standard model of physics, have been proven to have mass. One possible explanation for this mass could be that neutrinos are their own antiparticles, so-called Majorana particles.

6 Jun 2014

Novel Method Utilizes Quantum Mechanical Vibrations for High Precision Measurements

At TU Vienna, a new method was developed to utilize quantum mechanical vibrations for high precision measurements; The well-known concept of the Ramsey interferometer is applied to a complex multi particle system consisting of hundreds of atoms

6 Jun 2014

Rare, Intense Gamma-Ray Burst Travels for 12.1 Billion Years Before Reaching the Earth

Known as a gamma-ray burst, the rare, intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang

6 Jun 2014

Scientists Detect First of Thorne-Zytkow Objects

In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a "theoretical" class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna Zytkow. Thorne-Zytkow objects (TZOs) are hybrids of red supergiant and neutron stars that superficially resemble normal red supergiants, such as Betelguese in the constellation Orion. They differ, however, in their distinct chemical signatures that result from unique activity in their stellar interiors.

5 Jun 2014

Spitzer Space Telescope Reveals Rare Example of Type Ia Supernova Explosion

Supernovas are often thought of as the tremendous explosions that mark the ends of massive stars' lives. While this is true, not all supernovas occur in this fashion. A common supernova class, called Type Ia, involves the detonation of white dwarfs -- small, dense stars that are already dead.

5 Jun 2014

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First CERN Beam Line for Schools Competition Announced

NWO Honors Experimental Physicist with Spinoza Prize

Zero Chance of Impact from Newfound Asteroid

Researchers Develop Polariton Laser Fueled by Electrical Current

Spacetime Can Become Turbulent

No Evidence Found for Existence of Majorana Neutrinos

Novel Method Utilizes Quantum Mechanical Vibrations for High Precision Measurements

Rare, Intense Gamma-Ray Burst Travels for 12.1 Billion Years Before Reaching the Earth

Scientists Detect First of Thorne-Zytkow Objects

Spitzer Space Telescope Reveals Rare Example of Type Ia Supernova Explosion

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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4Quantum Challenge to Be Solved One Mile Underground

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