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Fermilab’s Holometer Experiment Explores Whether the Universe is a 2-D Hologram

A unique experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending questions about our universe – including whether we live in a hologram.

27 Aug 2014

Modutek Creates Precision Line with Vycom Material to Clean FRIB LINAC’s Superconducting Radiofrequency Resonators

Vycom announced today that Modutek Corporation of San Jose, CA, which specializes in chemical process equipment, has selected its Flametec materials for a project with Michigan State University's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).

26 Aug 2014

Rosetta Mission Selects Landing Sites on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has chosen five candidate landing sites on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for its Philae lander. Philae's descent to the comet's nucleus, scheduled for this November, will be the first such landing ever attempted. Rosetta is an international mission spearheaded by the European Space Agency with support and instruments provided by NASA.

26 Aug 2014

Scientists Reflect on Voyager 2's Neptune Encounter

August 25, 1989: Neptune is in view. It is the middle of the night and everything is happening fast at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Voyager team members have had little or no sleep. Vice President Dan Quayle is on the scene and Chuck Berry, of "Johnny B. Goode" fame, is prepping for an outdoor party. This will be "the last picture show" of the grand tour of the solar system by NASA's Voyager mission.

26 Aug 2014

New Horizons Spacecraft Bound for Pluto Traverses Neptune’s Orbit

NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.

26 Aug 2014

Simple Model Predicts Happenings in Atomic Reactions at Ultracold Temperatures

Findings from a physics study by a Kansas State University researcher are helping scientists accurately predict the once unpredictable.

26 Aug 2014

Molecular Rings Can be Made as Super-Efficient Absorbers of Light

A quantum effect in which excited atoms team up to emit an enhanced pulse of light can be turned on its head to create 'superabsorbing' systems, says an international team including researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. Their work is published 22 August in Nature Communications.

26 Aug 2014

Free-Electron Laser X-rays Peer Inside Droplets of Liquid Helium

Liquid helium, when cooled down nearly to absolute zero, exhibits unusual properties that scientists have struggled to understand: it creeps up walls and flows freely through impossibly small channels, completely lacking viscosity. It becomes a new state of matter – a "superfluid."

25 Aug 2014

Physicists Confirm Exotic Quantum Physics Theory

Just as diamonds with perfect symmetry may be unusually brilliant jewels, the quantum world has a symmetrical splendor of high scientific value.

25 Aug 2014

Transmission and Delay Measured in On-Chip Topological Light

Topological transport of light is the photonic analog of topological electron flow in certain semiconductors. In the electron case, the current flows around the edge of the material but not through the bulk. It is “topological” in that even if electrons encounter impurities in the material the electrons will continue to flow without losing energy.

25 Aug 2014