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UH Physicists to Receive $1.2 Million DoE Grant to Study Fundamental Nature of the Universe

Three University of Houston physicists will share a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Energy, money they will use to continue work on separate but related experiments involving subatomic particles that could yield answers about the fundamental nature of the universe.

15 May 2014

Atoms ‘Tickled’ to Explore Flow of Heat and Energy

In a recent experiment at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), scientists "tickled" atoms to explore the flow of heat and energy across materials at ultrasmall scales. The experiment, detailed in the May 6 edition of Structural Dynamics, enabled them to see subtle light-driven changes in the atomic structure of thin materials, relevant to thermoelectric and electronic devices.

15 May 2014

Astronomers Discover Partner Star of Magnetar

Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe — millions of times more powerful than the strongest magnets on Earth. A team of European astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) now believe they’ve found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time. This discovery helps to explain how magnetars form — a conundrum dating back 35 years — and why this particular star didn’t collapse into a black hole as astronomers would expect.

15 May 2014

Eminent Physicists Chosen to Receive 2014 Copernicus Award

Physicists Professor Harald Weinfurter from the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich and Professor Marek ¯ukowski from the University of Gdansk have been chosen to receive the 2014 Copernicus Award from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP, Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej) for their services to German-Polish research cooperation.

14 May 2014

Researchers Investigate How the Early Universe Evolved

The first galaxies evolved only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. But why do they have such a great variety of shapes and structures? How did the universe evolve as a whole? Two German-Chinese Partner Groups at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching are using observations and simulations to investigate how the early universe evolved: Cheng Li and Guinevere Kauffmann, as well as Liang Gao and Simon White.

14 May 2014

New Ultrafast Light Source Developed for Observing Electron Motion in Molecules

University of Central Florida physicist Zenghu Chang has done it again. For a third time this year, his research group has published an article in a Nature journal.

14 May 2014

Physicists Measure Second Efimov Resonance of Three Particles in Ultracold Quantum Gas

Eight years ago Rudolf Grimm's research group was the first to observe an Efimov state in an ultracold quantum gas. The Russian physicist Vitali Efimov theoretically predicted this exotic bound state of three particles in the 1970s. He forecast that three particles would form a bound state due to their quantum mechanical properties, under conditions when a two-body bound state would be absent.

14 May 2014

Researchers Discover Giant Gas Exoplanet through Direct Imaging

A gas giant has been added to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct imaging. It is located around GU Psc, a star three times less massive than the Sun and located in the constellation Pisces.

14 May 2014

Measurements of Radiation Distortions from Early Universe May Help Estimate Mass of Neutrinos

Astrophysicists at UC San Diego have measured the minute gravitational distortions in polarized radiation from the early universe and discovered that these ancient microwaves can provide an important cosmological test of Einstein's theory of general relativity. These measurements have the potential to narrow down the estimates for the mass of ghostly subatomic particles known as neutrinos.

14 May 2014

Turkey Signs Agreement for ‘Associate Membership’ to CERN

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr Taner Yildiz, Minister for Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey today signed an agreement admitting Turkey to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Meclis.

13 May 2014

Quantum Physics News

UH Physicists to Receive $1.2 Million DoE Grant to Study Fundamental Nature of the Universe

Atoms ‘Tickled’ to Explore Flow of Heat and Energy

Astronomers Discover Partner Star of Magnetar

Eminent Physicists Chosen to Receive 2014 Copernicus Award

Researchers Investigate How the Early Universe Evolved

New Ultrafast Light Source Developed for Observing Electron Motion in Molecules

Physicists Measure Second Efimov Resonance of Three Particles in Ultracold Quantum Gas

Researchers Discover Giant Gas Exoplanet through Direct Imaging

Measurements of Radiation Distortions from Early Universe May Help Estimate Mass of Neutrinos

Turkey Signs Agreement for ‘Associate Membership’ to CERN

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

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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

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