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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Most Detailed Observations of Comet Breaking Apart

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured one of the sharpest, most detailed observations of a comet breaking apart, which occurred 67 million miles from Earth.

16 Sep 2016

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Most Detailed Observations of Comet Breaking Apart

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured one of the sharpest, most detailed observations of a comet breaking apart, which occurred 67 million miles from Earth. In a series of images taken over a three-day sp...

16 Sep 2016

SSRL Scientist Receives Farrel W. Lytle Award for Research on High-Temperature Superconductors

Makoto Hashimoto, a staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), has received the Farrel W. Lytle Award for his technical and scientific contributions to a research program that has produced new insights about high-temperature superconductors – materials that conduct electricity perfectly with no resistance at temperatures significantly higher than conventional superconductors.

16 Sep 2016

NASA's Swift X-Ray Telescope Locates Slowest Spinning Neutron Star

Clues detected by NASA's Swift space observatory have led to the discovery of a new record-holder for the slowest spinning neutron star. The science and flight operations in the observatory are monitored by Penn State from the University Park campus.

15 Sep 2016

$Researchers Use Laser Light Diffraction to Manipulate Strong Electrostatic Fields Responsible for Ion Acceleration$

Researchers Use Laser Light Diffraction to Manipulate Strong Electrostatic Fields Responsible for Ion Acceleration

A targeted way to manipulate beams of protons accelerated using ultrashort and ultraintense laser pulses has been demonstrated by a team of researchers led at the University of Strathclyde.

15 Sep 2016

University of Liverpool-Led EU Project to Conduct Interdisciplinary Antimatter Research, Training

The University of Liverpool is leading a £3.2million EU project that will carry out interdisciplinary antimatter research and training in the latest scientific and technical developments in the field.

15 Sep 2016

NSF Approves Funds to Expand HERA Experiment to Study Impact of Cosmic Dawn

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved $9.5 million in funding to expand the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) – a multinational experiment to study how primordial galaxies forever changed the very early universe.

15 Sep 2016

Astronomers Find Signs of Growing Planet Around TW Hydra Using ALMA

Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

15 Sep 2016

ETH Researchers Discover Nodal Chain Metal

The electronic energy states permitted by quantum mechanics determine whether a solid conducts electric current as a metal or whether it is an insulator. Recently, ETH researchers have theoretically predicted a unique material whose energy states display an unknown peculiarity.

15 Sep 2016

Astronomers Observe Rebirth of Star in a Flash for First Time

A team of astronomers have studied stellar evolution in real time using Hubble. The temperature of the star SAO 244567 has greatly increased over the last three decades.

14 Sep 2016

Caltech Physicist to Give Talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Brookhaven Lab

Jess McIver, a postdoctoral scholar in experimental physics at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will give a talk, "LIGO and the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy," at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Thursday, September 22, at 4:30 p.m. in the Physics Department seminar room.

14 Sep 2016

Newly Developed Model for Reionization of the Universe is Based on Galaxy's Dust Content

An assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside and collaborators have published two papers that demonstrate why the universe has sufficient energy to become transparent.

13 Sep 2016

Researchers Discover 63 New Quasars from the Ancient Universe

Quasars are supermassive black holes situated at the center of huge galaxies, accreting matter. They are often called beacons as they shine so bright, and Quasars are among the most-distant objects present in the universe that can be considered for current research.

12 Sep 2016

New Measurement Tool Helps Researchers Better Understand Ultrahot Plasma Interactions Under Vacuum Conditions

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have successfully tested a new device that will lead to a better understanding of the interactions between ultrahot plasma contained within fusion facilities and the materials inside those facilities.

12 Sep 2016

Researchers Develop Quantum-Based Fast Random Number Generator for Secured Data Encryption

Random number generators are crucial to the encryption that protects our privacy and security when engaging in digital transactions such as buying products online or withdrawing cash from an ATM.

9 Sep 2016

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Most Detailed Observations of Comet Breaking Apart

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Most Detailed Observations of Comet Breaking Apart

SSRL Scientist Receives Farrel W. Lytle Award for Research on High-Temperature Superconductors

NASA's Swift X-Ray Telescope Locates Slowest Spinning Neutron Star

Researchers Use Laser Light Diffraction to Manipulate Strong Electrostatic Fields Responsible for Ion Acceleration

University of Liverpool-Led EU Project to Conduct Interdisciplinary Antimatter Research, Training

NSF Approves Funds to Expand HERA Experiment to Study Impact of Cosmic Dawn

Astronomers Find Signs of Growing Planet Around TW Hydra Using ALMA

ETH Researchers Discover Nodal Chain Metal

Astronomers Observe Rebirth of Star in a Flash for First Time

Caltech Physicist to Give Talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Brookhaven Lab

Newly Developed Model for Reionization of the Universe is Based on Galaxy's Dust Content

Researchers Discover 63 New Quasars from the Ancient Universe

New Measurement Tool Helps Researchers Better Understand Ultrahot Plasma Interactions Under Vacuum Conditions

Researchers Develop Quantum-Based Fast Random Number Generator for Secured Data Encryption

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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