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Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility Achieves Final Accelerator Commissioning Milestones

The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has achieved the final two accelerator commissioning milestones needed for approval to start experimental operations following its first major upgrade.

16 May 2014

Astronomers Discover Cradles of Massive Stars

Astronomers have undertaken a new survey of the plane of our Milky Way and discovered a large quantity of cold, dense clumps of gas and dust, apparently the cradles of massive stars. A team headed by Timea Csengeri from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has now used the map, which was obtained by the APEX telescope at a wavelength of 0.87 millimetres, to estimate the time scale for the formation of stars.

16 May 2014

A Single Theoretical Framework to Explain ‘Superconductors’

Leading-edge imaging and medical diagnostics, but also magnetic levitation trains: these are examples of technology relying on "superconductors". Superconductors are materials in which electrons flow without dissipation and which have very special properties such as expelling all magnetic fields.

16 May 2014

NASA Recognizes Student’s Research Contribution to James Webb Space Telescope

A 25-year-old PhD student from Willeton has had his research recognised by NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute for its contribution to their upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), to be launched in 2018.

15 May 2014

RHUL Centre for Particle Physics Awarded Funds to Upgrade High-Performance Computer Cluster

The RHUL Centre for Particle Physics has recently been awarded funds to upgrade its High-Performance Computer (HPC) cluster, used primarily to process data produced in very high energy proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN*.

15 May 2014

Effects of Gravity Waves in Simulation of the Sun Successfully Modeled in 3D

A team at the Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Modeling Laboratory (CEA/CNRS/Université Paris Diderot) has successfully modeled, in 3D, the effects of gravity waves in an extremely comprehensive simulation of the Sun, from its nuclear core to its convective surface.

15 May 2014

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