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Researchers Test Abilities of Topological Insulator Materials to Transport Electrons

Imagine if the "information superhighway" had HOV lanes so that data could be stored, processed and disseminated many times faster than possible with today’s electronics. Researchers in the United States and China have teamed to develop such a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological insulator (TI).

16 Oct 2013

Liverpool Particle Physics Group Hosts Senior Delegation from Hamamatsu Photonics

The Liverpool Particle Physics Group, based in the Department of Physics, played host to a senior delegation from Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. in Japan.

15 Oct 2013

Combined Study Demonstrates Competing Quantum Effects

The idea that the quantum mechanical behavior of light atoms can be decomposed in different components, and that these components tend to cancel out each other leaving a small net effect has been around for some time in theoretical simulations of hydrogen-bonded systems. Now a combined experimental/computational study provides direct evidence by decomposing the changes in quantum kinetic energy upon melting in heavy water.

15 Oct 2013

TheSkyNet Celebrates Two Year Anniversary, Launches New Scientific Project

TheSkyNet is celebrating its two year anniversary today with the official launch of a new research project, as well as a range of improvements and new features to make contributing to astronomical research at home more enjoyable, and even easier.

15 Oct 2013

New Journal of High Energy Astrophysics from Elsevier

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics (JHEAp), the first astrophysical journal that revolves around the study of high energy objects and events.

15 Oct 2013

Hubble Captures Petal-Like Shells of Galaxy PGC 6240

The beautiful, petal-like shells of galaxy PGC 6240 are captured here in intricate detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, set against a sky full of distant background galaxies. This cosmic bloom is of great interest to astronomers due to both its uneven structure, and the unusual clusters of stars that orbit around it — two strong indications of a galactic merger in the recent past.

11 Oct 2013

Astronomers Discover Celestial Objects Without Host Stars

Astronomers including Niall Deacon of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) captured an image of an unusual free-floating planet. As the object has no host star, it can be observed and examined much easier than planets orbiting stars, promising insight into the details of planetary atmospheres.

11 Oct 2013

Water-Rich Rocky Planetary Body Orbits White Dwarf Star

Astrophysicists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our solar system in its shattered remains orbiting a white dwarf.

11 Oct 2013

DESY Holds Kick-Off Meeting for German-Russian Ioffe Röntgen Institute

With a kick-off meeting at DESY in Hamburg the newly founded German-Russian Ioffe Röntgen Institute (IRI) has taken up work on Wednesday. The new institution will serve as an umbrella for cooperation in the development and application of large-scale research infrastructures.

11 Oct 2013

Higgs Mechanism Awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.”

11 Oct 2013