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New Tool Can Give Quick Snapshot of Individual Plasma Experiments in PPPL’s NSTX-U

When most of today’s college interns were still in kindergarten, Max Wallace was working for more than a decade as a programmer for various companies, founding a hackerspace in Charlotte, North Carolina, and writing code for start-ups in Silicon Valley.

6 Sep 2016

Mysterious X-Ray Signal from Clusters of Galaxies Creates Excitement Among Astronomers

A mysterious X-ray signal from clusters of galaxies recently caused some excitement among astronomers: Does it perhaps originate from dark matter, which makes up around 80 percent of the matter in the universe, but which scientists have not yet been able to detect?

6 Sep 2016

$Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature’s Light-Dependent Processes$

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature’s Light-Dependent Processes

The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has used its ultrafast electron camera for the first time, to get direct snapshots of atomic nuclei in molecules that are vibrating within millionths of a billionth of a second after being stroked by a laser pulse.

1 Sep 2016

Carnegie Scientists Discover Twin Stars Hosting Giant Planets

Scientists from Carnegie have identified three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar ''twins'' that are siblings of the Sun. One star hosts two planets and the third one is hosted by the other star.

1 Sep 2016

New Research to Provide Scientists with Higher Quality Antiproton Beams for Experiments at Antimatter Facilities

A new paper published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics A will help scientists provide higher quality antiproton beams to experiments at CERN and antimatter facilities across the world.

1 Sep 2016

Researchers Illustrate Charge Transport Between Nitrogen-Vacancy Color Centers

Charge transport between Nitrogen-Vacancy color centers in diamond has been successfully demonstrated by a team from the City College of New York. The team, headed by physicist Dr. Carlos Meriles, created a novel multi-color scanning microscopy technique in order to visualize the charge transport.

1 Sep 2016

University of Rochester Graduate Student Provides Insights on Matter-Antimatter Symmetry

Physicists love good symmetry—and that love is more than aesthetic appeal. One of the more important symmetries in all of science is the one between antimatter and matter.

31 Aug 2016

Astronomers Chart Rise and Fall of Galaxies Over 90% of Cosmic History

An international team of astronomers, including Carnegie’s Eric Persson, has charted the rise and fall of galaxies over 90 percent of cosmic history. Their work, which includes some of the most sensitive astronomical measurements made to date, is published by The Astrophysical Journal.

31 Aug 2016

Researchers Investigate Milky Way Galaxy’s Missing Matter

A supermassive black hole is currently dormant in the center of the Milky Way, and only occasionally slurps hydrogen gas in small quantities. However, this situation was not always the same.

30 Aug 2016

Electron with No Mass Can Acquire Mass in Very High Magnetic Field

An international team of researchers have for the first time, discovered that in a very high magnetic field an electron with no mass can acquire a mass.

30 Aug 2016

ETH-Led Team Investigates How Fast Electrons Can be Controlled with Electric Fields

Electronic components have become faster and faster over the years, thus making powerful computers and other technologies possible. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now investigated how fast electrons can ultimately be controlled with electric fields.

29 Aug 2016

Scientists Harness Quantum Physical Effects to Obtain Sensors with Unprecedented Sensitivity

Scientists are harnessing quantum physical effects to achieve sensors with unprecedented sensitivity. Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics have sought a new approach to quantum measurements and have had their results published in Nature.

26 Aug 2016

Smallest Dislocation in FeRh Alloys May Have Significant Impact on Manifestation of Magnetocaloric Properties

The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is manifested in cooling or heating of the magnetic material (a material having magnetic properties) in an external magnetic field. This phenomenon was first discovered in the 19th century, but the first theoretical justification was obtained some 40 years later.

26 Aug 2016

Astronomers Discover Rich Reservoirs of Carbon Monoxide Gas in Debris Disks of Larger Stars

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed dozens of young stars – some Sun-like and others approximately double that size – and discovered that the larger variety have surprisingly rich reservoirs of carbon monoxide gas in their debris disks. In contrast, the lower-mass, Sun-like stars have debris disks that are virtually gas-free.

26 Aug 2016

Renowned Experts to Provide Overview of Applications in Plasma Physics

Learn about plasma applications from nuclear fusion powering the sun, to making integrated circuits, to generating electricity.

26 Aug 2016

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New Tool Can Give Quick Snapshot of Individual Plasma Experiments in PPPL’s NSTX-U

Mysterious X-Ray Signal from Clusters of Galaxies Creates Excitement Among Astronomers

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature’s Light-Dependent Processes

Carnegie Scientists Discover Twin Stars Hosting Giant Planets

New Research to Provide Scientists with Higher Quality Antiproton Beams for Experiments at Antimatter Facilities

Researchers Illustrate Charge Transport Between Nitrogen-Vacancy Color Centers

University of Rochester Graduate Student Provides Insights on Matter-Antimatter Symmetry

Astronomers Chart Rise and Fall of Galaxies Over 90% of Cosmic History

Researchers Investigate Milky Way Galaxy’s Missing Matter

Electron with No Mass Can Acquire Mass in Very High Magnetic Field

ETH-Led Team Investigates How Fast Electrons Can be Controlled with Electric Fields

Scientists Harness Quantum Physical Effects to Obtain Sensors with Unprecedented Sensitivity

Smallest Dislocation in FeRh Alloys May Have Significant Impact on Manifestation of Magnetocaloric Properties

Astronomers Discover Rich Reservoirs of Carbon Monoxide Gas in Debris Disks of Larger Stars

Renowned Experts to Provide Overview of Applications in Plasma Physics

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