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French Physicist Alain Aspect Named Recipient of Niels Bohr Gold Medal

The prominent French physicist Alain Aspect received the Niels Bohr Gold Medal today. The medal will be presented at an event at the Honorary Residence at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen to be attended by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and His Royal Highness Prince Henrik.

8 Oct 2013

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron’s Former Accelerator Division Director Passes Away

Prof. Gustav-Adolf Voss, former director of the accelerator division at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, passed away on 5 October in Hamburg at the age of 84.

8 Oct 2013

Cosmic Radiation May Not Play a Role in Influence of Aerosols on Climate Change

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols - tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air - form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? This is a key question in understanding the climate, since aerosols cause a cooling effect by reflecting sunlight and by seeding cloud droplets.

7 Oct 2013

Ukraine Signs CERN Associate Membership Agreement

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer and Mr. Kostyantyn Ivanovych Gryschenko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine today signed a document admitting Ukraine to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.

4 Oct 2013

New York University Physicist Receives ERC Grant for Black Hole Research

New York University physicist Georgi Dvali has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate the properties of black holes.

4 Oct 2013

NIST's Micro-Drum Shows Promise to be Used as Quantum Memory

Extending evidence of quantum behavior farther into the large-scale world of everyday life, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "entangled"—linked the properties of—a microscopic mechanical drum with electrical signals.

4 Oct 2013

Researchers Find Quantum-Like Behavior of Bouncing Droplets

A research team led by Yves Couder at the Université Paris Diderot recently discovered that it's possible to make a tiny fluid droplet levitate on the surface of a vibrating bath, walking or bouncing across, pro...

3 Oct 2013

New University - Industry Collaboration to Advance Commercialization of Tetrapod Quantum Dots

Quantum Materials Corporation today announced it has entered into an MOU and University – Industry Partnership Agreement with Texas State University (TSU) in San Marcos, Texas, a short distance from Quantum Materials Corp headquarters at STAR Park.

3 Oct 2013

TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize Awarded to Theoretical Physicist Claudio Bunster Weitzman

The TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes given to scientists in the developing world, has been awarded to Chilean theoretical physicist Claudio Bunster Weitzman for his contributions to understanding gravity and the quirky physics of tiny, fundamental particles of matter.

3 Oct 2013

Niels Bohr Institute Discovery Center for Particle Physics Receives Research Grant

The Discovery Center for Particle Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute has received a grant of 40 million kroner from the Danish National Research Foundation. This grant means that the Discovery Center, which was established in January 2010, can continue as a Center of Excellence for an additional five years from January 2015 through the end of 2019.

1 Oct 2013