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New X-ray Detections Help Better Understand Ia Supernovae

New detections of X-rays from a white-dwarf star that exploded as a supernova in 1604 will help astronomers to better understand the important class of stars known as "Ia supernovae," which are used to probe the distant universe.

9 Apr 2013

Neutron-Star Interior Composition Explorer to Gather Data on Densest Matter Allowed in Nature

The Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), which NASA recently selected as its next Explorer Mission of Opportunity, will gather scientific data revealing the physics of the densest matter allowed in nature, and—from the same platform—will demonstrate a groundbreaking navigation technology that could revolutionize the agency's ability to travel to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond.

8 Apr 2013

NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program Selects Planet-Hunting Satellite and Space Station Instrument to Observe X-rays from Stars

NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.

8 Apr 2013

CERN Particle Physicist to Deliver Annual Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures

CERN physicist Fabiola Gianotti will be at Stanford Monday and Tuesday, April 8-9, to deliver the Physics Department's annual Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lectures. Gianotti is a senior research physicist at CERN and leads the ATLAS experiment, one of the two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider that detected the famous Higgs boson particle last summer.

6 Apr 2013

Superconductivity Researcher Honored with UF Teacher-Scholar of the Year Award

Physics professor Peter Hirschfeld has been awarded the University of Florida Teacher-Scholar of the Year award for 2012-2013.

6 Apr 2013

Data on Anti-Matter in Cosmic Rays Remain Ambiguous Even After AMS-02 Detector Measurements

Scientists have been trying already for years to resolve the issue whether dark matter really exists, and if so what are properties of its constituent particles.

6 Apr 2013

New Audio Recreation of the Big Bang Based on Cosmic Microwave Background Data

A decade ago, spurred by a question for a fifth-grade science project, University of Washington physicist John Cramer devised an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.

5 Apr 2013

NOvA Experiment to Measure Neutrino Energies Begins Recording 3D Images

Taking data from cosmic rays for the first time and moving closer to the day later this year when physicists can begin measuring neutrino energies, the international NOvA experiment -- with the fingerprints of Indiana University researchers all over it -- began recording its first three-dimensional images last week.

5 Apr 2013

Superconductivity Researchers Discover ‘Schizophrenic’ Material

Rice University physicists on the hunt for the origins of high-temperature superconductivity have published new findings this week about a material that becomes “schizophrenic” — simultaneously exhibiting the characteristics of both a metallic conductor and an insulator.

5 Apr 2013

Novel Method Can Shed Light on ‘High-Temperature’ Superconductivity

Superconductors can radically change energy management as we know it, but most are commercially unusable because they only work close to absolute zero. A research group at EPFL has now published an innovative approach that may help us understand and use superconductivity at more realistic temperatures.

5 Apr 2013