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Diamond Transport Spin Better Than Metals

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire.

25 Mar 2014

First Space Mission for Highest-Energy Particles

Every second, our bodies and the objects around us are struck by cosmic rays that come mostly from sources deep in space. The highest-energy cosmic rays are the most energetic particles in the universe—far more powerful than anything humans could produce— but their origins are a mystery.

24 Mar 2014

Critical Testing of Theories for Particles Smaller Than Higgs

Nobody has seen them yet; particles that are smaller than the Higgs particle. However theories predict their existence, and now the most important of these theories have been critically tested. The result: The existence of the yet unseen particles is now more likely than ever.

24 Mar 2014

Strain Can Help Control Topological Insulators

Research into a recently discovered class of materials shows they have the necessary characteristics to develop ultra-energy efficient electronics. Topological insulators (TI) are three-dimensional materials that conduct electricity on their surfaces, while the interior insulates.

24 Mar 2014

New Composite 360-Degree Portrait of Milky Way Galaxy

Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy's structure and contents.

24 Mar 2014

Joint Findings on Mass of Top Quark

Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both very powerful particle colliders on Earth. Scientists from the four experiments involved — ATLAS, CDF, CMS and DZero — announced their joint findings yesterday on the mass of the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, at the Rencontres de Moriond international physics conference in Italy.

24 Mar 2014

Graphene Plays a Key Role in Superconductivity

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered a potential way to make graphene – a single layer of carbon atoms with great promise for future electronics – superconducting, a state in which it would carry electricity with 100 percent efficiency.

24 Mar 2014