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BICEP2 Discovery Supports Cosmic Inflation Theory of How the Universe Began

The detection of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole supports the cosmic inflation theory of how the universe came to be. The discovery, made in part by Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo, supports the theoretical work of Stanford's Andrei Linde.

18 Mar 2014

Mathematical Proofs Refine Stephen Hawking's Definition of Region's Mass in Spacetime

If you want to know your body's mass, you hop on a scale and watch the needle swing. But if you want to know the mass of a region out in space, there's no cosmic equivalent -- the best you can do is consult a geometric formula.

18 Mar 2014

New Tool for Analyzing Mountains of Data from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Lightsource X-ray Laser

A new tool for analyzing mountains of data from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Lightsource (LCLS) X-ray laser can produce high-quality images of important proteins using fewer samples. Scientists hope to use it to reveal the structures and functions of proteins that have proven elusive, as well as mine data from past experiments for new information.

17 Mar 2014

Electrons Use Quantum Mechanical Trick to Slip through Insulating Barrier

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.

17 Mar 2014

Warm Dust Observed in Environment of Supermassive Black Hole in Active Galaxy

An international research team led by Konrad Tristram from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, obtained the most detailed view so far of the warm dust in the environment of a supermassive black hole in an active galaxy.

14 Mar 2014

Researchers Control Rotational Temperature of Molecular Ions

Chemical reactions taking place in outer space can now be more easily studied on Earth. An international team of researchers from the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, discovered an efficient and versatile way of braking the rotation of molecular ions.

14 Mar 2014

Lasers Cool Atoms to Create New Type of ‘Ultracold’ Molecule

Researchers have created a new type of "ultracold" molecule, using lasers to cool atoms nearly to absolute zero and then gluing them together, a technology that might be applied to quantum computing, precise sensors and advanced simulations.

13 Mar 2014

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Honored with 2014 NSSA Science Prize

The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has named Emil Bozin, a condensed matter physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, the recipient of their 2014 Science Prize.

13 Mar 2014

Attosecond Technology May Help Extend Domain of Electron Metrology into Optical Frequency Range

Light waves have the potential to boost the efficiency of conventional electronics by a factor of 100,000. In a review article that appears in “Nature Photonics” on March 14th, Prof. Ferenc Krausz of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and his co-author Prof. Mark Stockman of Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta describe how this vision may one day come true.

13 Mar 2014

SLAC Student to Receive Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowship in Physics

Spencer Gessner, a Stanford graduate student in physics, has been chosen as the third recipient of the Robert H. Siemann Graduate Fellowship in Physics. Established in memory of long-time SLAC accelerator physicist and Stanford faculty member Robert Siemann, the fellowship provides funding to outstanding graduate students who do accelerator physics research at SLAC.

13 Mar 2014