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Fused Silica Nanofabricated Chips May Help Reduce Size and Cost of Future High-Energy Particle Colliders

In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice.

30 Sep 2013

TWAS Meet in Buenos Aires to Feature Symposium on Quantum Information and Quantum Computing

Top scientists and policymakers from the developing world – including science ministers from at least two nations – will convene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday 30 September for a meeting that will explore new research and compelling challenges in science and engineering.

30 Sep 2013

NASA's BRRISON Lifts Off to Study Frozen Volatiles in Comet ISON

The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON), built and managed for NASA by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, lifted off at 8:10pm EDT from Fort Sumner, N.M., on a mission that includes Comet ISON as one of its observation targets.

30 Sep 2013

String Theory Researcher Discusses Impact of Computing on our Lives

Self-driving cars. Printed heart tissue. Synthetic telepathy. Toilets that read the chemicals in your urine and warn you when your health is out of whack.

30 Sep 2013

ERC Awards Advanced Grants for Quantum Research

Klapwijk, who works at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, will use the grant for his research into quantum materials. He attempts to understand the electrodynamic properties of quantum materials down to the nanoscale. He examines materials in which different ground states compete with each other. This gives rise to local differences in the material's electronic properties such as the conductivity and relative permittivity.

27 Sep 2013

Caltech Develops Spiral Chip-Based Optical Resonator

A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created the optical equivalent of a tuning fork—a device that can help steady the electrical currents needed to power high-end electronics and stabilize the signals of high-quality lasers.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists Discover Millisecond Pulsar Star with Dual Identity

A fleet of orbiting X-ray telescopes that includes NASA's Swift orbiting observatory, which is controlled by Penn State, has been used by an international team of scientists in the discovery of a "millisecond pulsar" star with a dual identity.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists Observe Elementary Quantum Magnetic Phenomena in Ferromagnetic Quantum Crystals

Simulating solid state properties with precisely controlled quantum systems is an important goal of the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division at MPQ. Now the team around Professor Immanuel Bloch (Chair for Experimental Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Director at MPQ) has come again a step closer to it – to be precise, to the understanding of processes in ferromagnetic solid state crystals in which elementary excitations, so-called magnons, can emerge.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists Employ Neutron Source to Determine Sodium Ion Path Movement in Future Battery Material

Lithium ion batteries are highly efficient and provide electrical energy for laptops, mobile phones and lately also for the growing electric car market. But there are drawbacks to this technology: lithium is expensive and its extraction rather harmful to the environment.

27 Sep 2013

Students Measure Cosmic Particles on International Cosmic Day

On September 25, 2013 the 2nd International Cosmic Day took place: an international event on astroparticle physics, targeted at high-school students. The International Cosmic Day was initiated by DESY and Netzwerk Teilchenwelt in Germany as well as by Fermilab with its student outreach project QuarkNet in the U.S. On that day, students from all over the world have measured particles that are produced in space and that carry information about the structure and origin of the universe to us.

27 Sep 2013