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Physicist Receives W.M. Keck Foundation Grant to Develop Quantum Enhanced Plasmonic Sensor

A University of Oklahoma physicist has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop a quantum enhanced plasmonic sensor.

28 Jul 2014

NIFS Achieves 100,000 Amperes Electrical Current Using Yttrium-Based High-Temperature Superconducting Tapes

The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) in Japan, has achieved an electrical current of 100,000 amperes, which is by far the highest in the world, by using the new idea of assembling the state-of-the-art yttrium-based high-temperature superconducting tapes to fabricate a large-scale magnet conductor.

26 Jul 2014

Very Low Water Vapour Levels Measured on Jupiter-Like Planets

A team of astronomers has made the most precise measurements yet of water vapour in the atmospheres of Jupiter-like planets beyond our Solar System and found them to be much drier worlds than expected.

26 Jul 2014

Continuous Injection with Energy Can Cause Non-Equilibrium Particle Structures to Self-Organize

Although most natural and synthetic processes prefer to settle into equilibrium—a state of unchanging balance without potential or energy—it is within the realm of non-equilibrium conditions where new possibilities lie.

26 Jul 2014

AIP Honors Caltech Scientist with 2014 Andrew Gemant Award

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) today announced that Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, is the winner of the 2014 Andrew Gemant Award, an annual prize recognizing significant contributions to the cultural, artistic or humanistic dimension of physics.

26 Jul 2014

Next-Generation Approaches to Creation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Rapid advances in techniques for the creation of ultra-short laser pulses promise to boost our knowledge of electron motions to an unprecedented level.

25 Jul 2014

Astonishing Low Water Abundance in Exoplanet

A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapour in the atmospheres of three planets orbiting stars similar to the Sun – and have come up nearly dry.

25 Jul 2014

Hexabundle' Optical-Fibre Instrument Provides Detailed Views of Galaxies

A new home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres is giving Australian astronomers the first 'Google street view' of the cosmos — incredibly detailed views of huge numbers of galaxies.

25 Jul 2014

Scientists Make Most Precise Measurement of ‘Super-Earth’ Kepler-93b

Thanks to NASA's Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside our solar system. The size of the exoplanet, dubbed Kepler-93b, is now known to an uncertainty of just 74 miles (119 kilometers) on either side of the planetary body.

25 Jul 2014

Celestial Laboratories Allow Astronomers to Better Understand Star Evolution

In this striking new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust.

24 Jul 2014