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Swedish Solar Telescope Detects Alfvén Waves in Sun's Corona

UT Arlington physics professor Zdzislaw E. Musielak has been awarded a three-year, $301,339 National Science Foundation grant to investigate Alfvén waves in the Sun, a phenomenon vital to understanding Earth's nearest star.

23 Jan 2013

NSF’s VLA Provides More Clues on the Manatee Nebula

A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant demonstrates the upgraded imaging power of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and provides more clues to the history of this giant cloud that resembles a beloved endangered species, the Florida Manatee.

19 Jan 2013

Future for Particle Physics Study Remains Unknown

In July 2012, a much-anticipated announcement was made in the science community. The Higgs Boson was discovered. It was a big deal, as it explains why certain particles have mass while others do not.

19 Jan 2013

Three UC Riverside Scientists Join the Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures

Three University of California, Riverside scientists and engineers are members of a new national research center — the Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN) — focused on developing the next generation of microelectronics. Led by the University of Minnesota, C-SPIN is being supported by a five-year $28 million grant, about $3 million of which is allocated to UC Riverside.

19 Jan 2013

Centre for Quantum Technologies Releases Annual Report

The Centre for Quantum Technologies is pleased to make available its annual report for 2012. As well as a run-down of the year's events and research papers, a who's who of the Centre's staff and a letter from the Centre's Director, the report also offers special feature articles:

19 Jan 2013

Physicists Complete Rudimentary Versions of Quantum-Optical Experiment

In early 2011, a pair of theoretical computer scientists at MIT proposed an optical experiment that would harness the weird laws of quantum mechanics to perform a computation impossible on conventional computers. Commenting at the time, a quantum-computing researcher at Imperial College London said that the experiment “has the potential to take us past what I would like to call the ‘quantum singularity,’ where we do the first thing quantumly that we can’t do on a classical computer.”

19 Jan 2013

Researchers Successfully Simulate Strong Atomic Nuclear Interactions in a Neutron Star

(Jena) The planet Earth will die – if not before, then when the Sun collapses. This is going to happen in approximately seven billion years. In the universe however the death of suns and planets is an everyday occurance and our solar system partly consists of their remnants.

18 Jan 2013

C-SPIN to Develop Technologies for Spin-Based Computing Systems

The University of Minnesota announced today that it has been awarded a $28 million grant over five years to lead a new national research center focused on developing the next generation of microelectronics. About one-third of the grant will support research in Minnesota.

18 Jan 2013

Major Institutions Involved in Center for Future Architectures Research to Design Computers of 2025

Designing the computers of 2025 is the focus of a new $28 million, five-year research center led by the University of Michigan.

18 Jan 2013

CFI Provides Funds to Upgrade Particle Physics Laboratory

The federal government’s Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is investing $8.7 million in two national research projects in which SFU is a major participant.

18 Jan 2013