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Astronomers Explore Firework-Like Debris from Birth of a Group of Massive Stars

Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth.

10 Apr 2017

New Model System Enhances the Understanding of Processes in a Quantum-Physical Experiment

A model system that improves the understanding of processes in a quantum-physical experiment with ultracold atoms has been developed by two researchers at Heidelberg University. Prof. Dr Sandro Wimberger and David Fischer from the Institute for Theoretical Physics used computer-assisted methods to discover physical laws that point to this system’s universal properties.

10 Apr 2017

PPPL Physicists Study Effect of Different Wall Materials and Structures on Secondary Electron Emission

Everyone knows that the game of billiards involves balls careening off the sides of a pool table -- but few people may know that the same principle applies to fusion reactions.

7 Apr 2017

IPP Professor Thomas Sunn Pedersen Awarded First Ever Matter-Antimatter Plasma / ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding 2.4 million euros in support of the research on a matter-antimatter plasma composed of electrons and positrons to be produced for the first time in the world by Professor Dr. Thomas Sunn Pedersen at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald.

7 Apr 2017

Argonne Researchers Create Skyrmions by using a Spiraling Focused Ion Beam

Like baristas creating beautiful spirals of creamy foam on the warm surfaces of lattes, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have found a way to control the creation of special textured surfaces in magnetically ordered materials.

7 Apr 2017

Researchers Simulate Self-Organized Flow of Superhot Plasma that Fuels Fusion Reactions

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and General Atomics have simulated a mysterious self-organized flow of the superhot plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

6 Apr 2017

Radio Astronomers Use Earth-Sized Telescope to Peer into Super-Massive Black Holes

Turning the Earth into one giant telescope by coordinating observations from instruments arrayed around the world, teams of radio astronomers are aiming their telescopes for the next 10 days at the thin edge - also known as the event horizon - of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the closest such object to Earth.

6 Apr 2017

Cornell University-Led Consortium to Build Powerful Telescope in Chile

A unique and powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths is headed to South America.

6 Apr 2017

Researchers Make Progress in Understanding a Key Mystery of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.

6 Apr 2017

Researchers Develop New Experimental Technique to Take 3D Images of Molecules in Action

Quantum mechanics rules. It dictates how particles and forces interact, and thus how atoms and molecules work -- for example, what happens when a molecule goes from a higher-energy state to a lower-energy one. But beyond the simplest molecules, the details become very complex.

5 Apr 2017