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Story of Higgs Boson to be Told at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

The story behind the discovery of the Higgs Boson, which is thought to explain why fundamental particles have mass, is being told by a team from Brunel University, London, at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition this week.

2 Aug 2013

Gargantuan Galaxies Slow Their Growth Over Time

Our universe is filled with gobs of galaxies, bound together by gravity into larger families called clusters. Lying at the heart of most clusters is a monster galaxy thought to grow in size by merging with neighboring galaxies, a process astronomers call galactic cannibalism.

2 Aug 2013

Surprising Revelations About Quenched Galaxies

Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become "quenched". Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched galaxies in the Universe today. This has always puzzled astronomers — how can these galaxies grow if they are no longer forming stars? A team of astronomers has now used a huge set of Hubble observations to give a surprisingly simple answer to this long-standing cosmic riddle.

2 Aug 2013

UCLA Researchers to Contribute to Development of the Thirty Meter Telescope

With the signing last week of a "master agreement" for the Thirty Meter Telescope — destined to be the most advanced and powerful optical telescope in the world — the University of California and UCLA moved a step closer to peering deeper into the cosmos than ever before.

2 Aug 2013

Liquid Water Reservoir May Lurk Under the Icy Surface of Saturn's Moon

The intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus depends on the moon's proximity to the ringed planet, according to data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

1 Aug 2013

Physicists Predict Deviations in Probability of B Meson Decays

A team of physicists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the French CNRS have predicted deviations in the probability of one of the B meson decays that have been detected experimentally in the LHC accelerator at CERN. Confirmation of these results would be the first direct evidence of the existence of the 'new physics', a more fundamental theory than the current Standard Model.

1 Aug 2013

NASA Spots Young Stellar System That Blinks

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a young stellar system that "blinks" every 93 days. Called YLW 16A, the system likely consists of three developing stars, two of which are surrounded by a disk of material left over from the star-formation process.

1 Aug 2013

Lower Thermal Radiation Threshold Found for Planetary Runaway Greenhouse

It might be easier than previously thought for a planet to overheat into the scorchingly uninhabitable “runaway greenhouse” stage, according to new research by astronomers at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria published July 28 in the journal Nature Geoscience.

31 Jul 2013

College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Hosts U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Further illustrating the success of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s strategic blueprint for nanotechnology-enabled innovation and high-tech job growth across New York, as well as its recognition as a national and global model for economic competitiveness, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) hosted U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on Tuesday, July 30 as part of her “Listening Tour” across America.

31 Jul 2013

Yale Physicists Win John Stewart Bell Prize for Contributions to Field of Quantum Mechanics

The University of Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control has announced Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf, both of Yale University, as winners of the prestigious John Stewart Bell Prize for their enormous contributions to the field of quantum mechanics.

31 Jul 2013