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Nuclear Astrophysicists Shed New Light on Exploding Stars

An international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae.

16 Jan 2013

Canada Foundation for Innovation Awards Grant for Research on Quantum Materials

University of British Columbia research in areas ranging from astronomy to cancer, quantum materials to plant evolution, received a $22.7M boost from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

16 Jan 2013

Canadian Scientists to Play a Leading Role in Higgs-like Particle Research

The federal government through one of its research-funding agencies, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), is investing about $8.7 million in new funding in two major national research projects involving Simon Fraser University.

16 Jan 2013

Tecnalia to Develop Innovative Offshore Wind Turbine Based on Superconducting Generator

The project aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions by designing an innovative, lightweight, robust and reliable 10 MW class offshore wind turbine based on a superconducting (SC) generator, taking into account all the essential aspects of electric conversion, integration and manufacturability.

16 Jan 2013

Electron-Molecule Collisions Could Help Predict Operations in ITER Fusion Reactor

An international team of physicists has calculated the efficiency of a reaction involving an incoming electron kicking out an electron from the metal beryllium (Be) or its hydrogen compound molecules, in an article about to be published in EPJ D.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 16 Jan 2013

Pulsed-Laser Deposition Employed to Produce High-Field Iron-Based Superconductors

The road to a sustainably powered future may be paved with superconductors. When chilled to frigid temperatures hundreds of degrees Celsius below zero, these remarkable materials are singularly capable of perfectly conducting electric current. To meet growing global energy demands, the entire energy infrastructure would benefit tremendously from incorporating new electricity generation, storage, and delivery technologies that use superconducting wires. But strict limits on temperature, high manufacturing costs, and the dampening effects of high-magnetic fields currently impede widespread adoption.

11 Jan 2013

Mass Used to Measure Time

Ever since he was a kid growing up in Germany, Holger Müller has been asking himself a fundamental question: What is time?

11 Jan 2013

New Camera on Hubble Space Telescope Identifies Distant Supernova

What if you had a "Wayback Television Set" and could watch an entire month of ancient prehistory unfold before your eyes in real time? David Rubin of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) presented just such a scenario to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Long Beach, CA, when he announced the discovery of a striking astronomical object: a Type Ia supernova with a redshift of 1.71 that dates back 10 billion years in time. Labeled SN SCP-0401, the supernova is exceptional for its detailed spectrum and precision color measurement, unprecedented in a supernova so distant.

10 Jan 2013

Scientists Discover Regions of Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way Galaxy

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of previously-unknown sites of massive star formation in the Milky Way, including the most distant such objects yet found in our home Galaxy. Ongoing studies of these objects promise to give crucial clues about the structure and history of the Milky Way.

10 Jan 2013

Accelerating Expansion of Galaxies Does Not Conform to Dark Energy Theory

Research by University of Arizona astronomy professor Rodger Thompson finds that a popular alternative to Albert Einstein’s theory for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe does not fit newly obtained data on a fundamental constant, the proton to electron mass ratio.

10 Jan 2013