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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

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