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Spooky Planetary Nebulas Caught in Their Final Death Throes

In the spirit of Halloween, scientists are releasing a trio of stellar ghosts caught in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. All three spooky structures, called planetary nebulas, are in fact material ejected from dying stars. As death beckoned, the stars' wispy bits and pieces were blown into outer space.

30 Oct 2013

Würzburg Physicists Successfully Create Topological Insulators from Tin

Intensive research is being conducted worldwide on a material that promises a revolution in data processing. For the first time ever, physicists have now produced this from a very simple substance – to the sheer amazement of the scientific world.

29 Oct 2013

Role of Quantum Mechanics in Quest for Sustainable Energy

Emily Carter, founding director of Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, will describe the essential role of quantum mechanics in the quest for sustainable energy in a free public lecture at UCLA.

29 Oct 2013

Research Reveals Yet Another Counterintuitive Feature of the Quantum World

Imagine you order a delivery of several glass vases in different colors. Each vase is sent as a separate parcel. What would you think of the courier if the parcels arrive apparently undamaged, yet when you open them, it turns out that all the red vases are intact and all the green ones are smashed to pieces? Physicists from the University of Warsaw and the Gdañsk University of Technology have demonstrated that when quantum information is transmitted, nature can be as whimsical as this crazy delivery man.

29 Oct 2013

Texas A&M Invests $10.8 Million to Boost Multidisciplinary Quantum Biophotonics Research

A three-year, $10.8 million investment by the Texas A&M University System is set to provide a major boost to multidisciplinary quantum biophotonics research across the Texas A&M University campus.

29 Oct 2013

Microscopic Test Lab Proposed for Simultaneous Study of Quanta and Quantum Entanglement

Theoretical physicist Frank Wilhelm-Mauch and his research team at Saarland University have developed a mathematical model for a type of microscopic test lab that could provide new and deeper insight into the world of quantum particles.

28 Oct 2013

A New Look at Boomerang Nebula, ‘the Coldest Place in the Universe’

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe – colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space.

28 Oct 2013

Cosmochemists Solve Mystery of Oxygen’s Anomalous Pattern in Formation of the Solar System

Cosmochemists at the University of California, San Diego, have solved a long standing mystery in the formation of the solar system: Oxygen, the most abundant element in Earth’s crust, follows a strange, anomalous pattern in the oldest, most pristine rocks, one that must result from a different chemical process than the well-understood reactions that form minerals containing oxygen on Earth.

28 Oct 2013

Search for Massive Photon with Specific Energy in Dark Matter Experiment

Dark matter, believed by physicists to outweigh all the normal matter in the universe by more than five to one, is by definition invisible. But certain features associated with dark matter might be detectable, according to some of the many competing theories describing this elusive matter. Now scientists at MIT and elsewhere have developed a tool that could test some of these predictions and thus prove, or disprove, one of the leading theories.

28 Oct 2013

High-Energy Physics Workshop Hosted by Texas A&M University at Qatar

Texas A&M University at Qatar hosted representatives of the European Organization for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research (CERN) and visiting physicists to a workshop this month at Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Student Center.

25 Oct 2013