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DOE Awards Early Career Research Program Funding to Three Brookhaven Physicists

Three physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are among 35 scientists selected by DOE's Office of Science from 750 proposals to receive Early Career Research Program funding. Their work spans several subfields of physics-from describing the dynamics of high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei at particle colliders, to exploring magnetic excitations in materials that offer promise for carrying loss-free electric current, to developing new ways to track elusive neutrinos, particles that can pass through most forms of matter undetected.

13 May 2014

NASA Administrator to View Progress on Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will get a firsthand look at work being done on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft during a visit to the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Monday, May 12.

12 May 2014

Theoretical Chemist Named Dean of Rice University’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences

National Academy of Sciences member Peter Rossky, currently a chemistry professor and director of two major research centers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, has been named dean of Rice University’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences.

12 May 2014

Three Events Associated with Emergence of Superconductivity Occur Simultaneously

Scientists are closing in on the secret recipe for high-temperature superconductors. The secret ingredients are still unknown, but new research at Cornell and Brookhaven National Laboratory has revealed a little more about how they are mixed. Three previously observed events associated with the emergence of superconductivity turn out to occur at the same time.

12 May 2014

Clusters of Stars May Not Be Forming From Inside Out

An important advance in understanding how clusters of stars like our sun are formed has been made by a team that includes seven astronomers at Penn State and two at other universities. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, the astronomers have shown that earlier theories about the process that creates star clusters in giant clouds of gas and dust cannot be correct.

9 May 2014

DOE Awards Early Career Research Program Funding to Northwestern University Physicists

Two young Northwestern University physicists -- Eric Dahl and Nathaniel Stern -- have been selected by the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science to receive significant research funding as part of the DOE’s highly selective Early Career Research Program.

9 May 2014

Alexander von Humboldt Professorships Conferred on JGU Fellows

The German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Professor Johanna Wanka, and the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Professor Helmut Schwarz, have today conferred one of six prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorships to theoretical physicist Professor Jairo Sinova of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).

9 May 2014

Method Combining Quantum and Classical Physics Poses a Great Challenge in Modelling

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and international partners are using advanced supercomputers to develop a new framework for accurate materials simulation.

9 May 2014

Kavli Showcases Cosmic Research at Second Annual Public Open House

The sky was the limit for the 550 visitors that swarmed SLAC’s Kavli Building into the late evening on May 3. They were attending the second annual Public Open House hosted by the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) to showcase its cosmic research.

9 May 2014

Solution Found to Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity

Scientists seeking to understand the intricacies of high-temperature superconductivity—the ability of certain materials to carry electrical current with no energy loss—have been particularly puzzled by a mysterious phase that emerges as charge carriers are added that appears to compete with superconductivity.

9 May 2014