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Researchers Create Highest-Resolution Maps of Earth’s Gravity Field

A joint Australian-German research team led by Curtin University’s Dr Christian Hirt has created the highest-resolution maps of Earth’s gravity field to date – showing gravitational variations up to 40 per cent larger than previously assumed.

5 Sep 2013

New Scalesetting Method May Simplify Search for New Physics in the Universe

No one knows for sure, but it is not unlikely that the universe is constructed in a completely different way than the usual theories and models of today predict. The most widely used model today cannot explain everything in the universe, and therefore there is a need to explore the parts of nature which the model cannot explain. This research field is called new physics, and it turns our understanding of the universe upside down. New research now makes the search for new physics easier.

5 Sep 2013

Bipolar Planetary Nebulae Create Ghostly Butterfly Shapes Around Parent Stars

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's New Technology Telescope to explore more than 100 planetary nebulae in the central bulge of our galaxy. They have found that butterfly-shaped members of this cosmic family tend to be mysteriously aligned — a surprising result given their different histories and varied properties.

5 Sep 2013

Dark Energy Survey to Systematically Map One-Eighth of the Sky

For hundreds of nights during the next five years, the world’s most powerful digital camera will turn skyward, helping a team of physicists and astronomers from around the globe answer fundamental questions about our universe.

4 Sep 2013

CQT Supervised Student Wins Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize

Physics undergraduate Jeysthur Ang has been awarded an Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize (OURP) for research he carried out at CQT. He is the fourth student supervised at CQT to receive the National University of Singapore prize.

4 Sep 2013

Strides Toward Uncovering Role of Charge ‘Stripes’ in Superconductivity

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a series of clues that particular arrangements of electrical charges known as "stripes" may play a role in superconductivity—the ability of some materials to carry electric current with no energy loss.

4 Sep 2013

New Platform Proposed for Quantum Simulation

Researchers from the universities in Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Ulm have proposed a new platform for quantum simulation. In a theoretical paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, they show that a combined system of ultracold trapped ions and fermionic atoms could be used to emulate solid state physics.

4 Sep 2013

Quantum Mechanics and Theory of Relativity Can be Unified

Present-day physics cannot describe what happened in the Big Bang. Quantum theory and the theory of relativity fail in this almost infinitely dense and hot primal state of the universe. Only an all-encompassing theory of quantum gravity which unifies these two fundamental pillars of physics could provide an insight into how the universe began.

3 Sep 2013

Fresh Evidence Confirms Existence of Superheavy Chemical Element 115

An international team of researchers presents fresh evidence that confirms the existence of the superheavy chemical element 115. The experiment was conducted at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory located in Darmstadt.

31 Aug 2013

ASU Scientists Utilize Radio Telescopes to Pick up Faint Signals from the Epoch of Reionization

For millions of years after the Big Bang, there were no stars, or even galaxies to contain stars. During these “Cosmic Dark Ages,” neutral hydrogen gas dominated the universe. When clouds of primordial hydrogen gas started to collapse from gravity, they became stars.

31 Aug 2013