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Perimeter Institute Releases New ‘Career Moves’ Educational Resource

To help equip students with the skills they need for success in the 21st century, Perimeter Institute released today its new “Career Moves” educational resource, made possible by support from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).

1 Oct 2013

Black Holes May Have Hair

A black hole. A simple and clear concept, at least according to the hypothesis by Roy Kerr, who in 1963 proposed a "clean" black hole model, which is the current theoretical paradigm. From theory to reality things may be quite different. According to a new research carried out by a group of scientists that includes Thomas Sotiriou, a physicist of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, black holes may be much "dirtier" than what Kerr believed.

1 Oct 2013

Astronomers Create Cloud Map of Kepler-7b Exoplanet

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.

1 Oct 2013

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