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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

Prange Prize Honors Nobelist Andre Geim for Transformative Work in Condensed-Matter Theory

Nobel Laureate Andre Geim of the University of Manchester, UK, has been named the 2012 recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Dr. Geim will receive a $10,000 honorarium and deliver a public presentation entitled "Random Walk to Graphene” at the University of Maryland, College Park, on Oct. 16, 2012.

31 Aug 2013

New Information from IceCube Neutrino Observatory May Help Unravel Origin of Cosmic Rays

The origin of cosmic rays in the universe has confounded scientists for decades. But a study by researchers using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole reveals new information that may help unravel the longstanding mystery of exactly how and where these “rays” (they are actually high-energy particles) are produced.

30 Aug 2013

HEASARC Presents Data from Black-Hole Hunting Telescope, NuSTAR

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray images of the cosmos. The first batch of data from the black-hole hunting telescope is publicly available today, Aug. 29, via NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, or HEASARC.

30 Aug 2013