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Geologists and Physicists Generate World’s First Global Map of Antineutrino Emissions

The neutrino and its antimatter cousin, the antineutrino, are the tiniest subatomic particles known to science. These particles are byproducts of nuclear reactions within stars (including our sun), supernovae, black holes and human-made nuclear reactors. They also result from radioactive decay processes deep within the Earth, where radioactive heat and the heat left over from the planet’s formation fuels plate tectonics, volcanoes and Earth’s magnetic field.

2 Sep 2015

Different Magnesium Compounds Could Be Abundant Inside Other Distant Planets

As astronomers continue finding new rocky planets around distant stars, high-pressure physicists are considering what the interiors of those planets might be like and how their chemistry could differ from that found on Earth. New work from a team including three Carnegie scientists demonstrates that different magnesium compounds could be abundant inside other planets as compared to Earth. Their work is published by Scientific Reports.

2 Sep 2015

Gravitational Microlensing Helps Discover Distant Gas Giant Exoplanet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered through a technique called gravitational microlensing.

2 Sep 2015

ATLAS and CMS Collaborations Present Combined Measurements of Higgs Properties

Three years after the announcement of the discovery of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations present for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties, at the third annual Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP 2015).

2 Sep 2015

Astronomers at Georgia State University to Debate Scientific Theories about Dark Matter

Astronomers at Georgia State University will debate leading scientific theories about dark matter, one of the biggest mysteries of the universe, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5 in Speakers Auditorium at Georgia State’s Student Center East, 55 Gilmer St.

1 Sep 2015

Powerful Aurora Discovered on Low-Mass Star

Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen in an object beyond our Solar System. The aurora -- similar to the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth -- is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen. They found the aurora not from a planet, but from a low-mass star at the boundary between stars and brown dwarfs.

1 Sep 2015

Collisions of Smaller Particles Could Also Create Droplets of Quark-Gluon Plasma

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, smashes large nuclei together at close to the speed of light to recreate the primordial soup of fundamental particles that existed in the very early universe.

1 Sep 2015

Scientists Measure Quantum Physics Phenomenon of Squeezing of Light Particles

A team of scientists has successfully measured particles of light being "squeezed", in an experiment that had been written off in physics textbooks as impossible to observe.

1 Sep 2015

Stephen Shectman of Carnegie Observatories Honored with Muhlmann Award

Astronomer and instrumentation expert Stephen Shectman of the Carnegie Observatories has been selected to receive the Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, “for important research results based upon development of groundbreaking instruments and techniques.” He will receive the prize in October.

29 Aug 2015

Researchers Find a Way to Observe and Control Quantum Motion of an Object

Consider the pendulum of a grandfather clock. If you forget to wind it, you will eventually find the pendulum at rest, unmoving. However, this simple observation is only valid at the level of classical physics--the laws and principles that appear to explain the physics of relatively large objects at human scale. However, quantum mechanics, the underlying physical rules that govern the fundamental behavior of matter and light at the atomic scale, state that nothing can quite be completely at rest.

29 Aug 2015

CQT's Small Photon-Entangling Quantum System Survives October 2014 Rocket Explosion

But all was not lost. Earlier this year, the team learned that the explosion that destroyed the rocket did not destroy CQT's Small Photon-Entangling Quantum System (SPEQS). The satellite containing SPEQS was found on a beach. Now tests this month have shown that it's still working. The news is reported in the 27 August edition of Singapore newspaper the Straits Times.

29 Aug 2015

Double Black Holes Power Quasar in Markarian 231 Galaxy

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that Markarian 231 (Mrk 231), the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar, is powered by two central black holes furiously whirling about each other.

29 Aug 2015

New Images Emerge from Dwarf Planet Ceres Using Dawn Space Probe

NASA’S Dawn space probe has reached the last intermediate leg on the spiral orbit which will bring it to within a few hundred kilometres of the dwarf planet Ceres by the end of the year. Ceres is the largest celestial body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since 17 August, the Dawn spacecraft has been a mere 1470 kilometres away from its surface.

28 Aug 2015

Physicists Find Radical New Way to Confine Electromagnetic Energy Without it Leaking

Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash.

28 Aug 2015

Researchers Working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider Find Leptons Treated in Strange Ways Unlike Standard Model

The Standard Model of particle physics, which explains most of the known behaviors and interactions of fundamental subatomic particles, has held up remarkably well over several decades. This far-reaching theory does have a few shortcomings, however--most notably that it doesn't account for gravity. In hopes of revealing new, non-standard particles and forces, physicists have been on the hunt for conditions and behaviors that directly violate the Standard Model.

28 Aug 2015

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Geologists and Physicists Generate World’s First Global Map of Antineutrino Emissions

Different Magnesium Compounds Could Be Abundant Inside Other Distant Planets

Gravitational Microlensing Helps Discover Distant Gas Giant Exoplanet

ATLAS and CMS Collaborations Present Combined Measurements of Higgs Properties

Astronomers at Georgia State University to Debate Scientific Theories about Dark Matter

Powerful Aurora Discovered on Low-Mass Star

Collisions of Smaller Particles Could Also Create Droplets of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Scientists Measure Quantum Physics Phenomenon of Squeezing of Light Particles

Stephen Shectman of Carnegie Observatories Honored with Muhlmann Award

Researchers Find a Way to Observe and Control Quantum Motion of an Object

CQT's Small Photon-Entangling Quantum System Survives October 2014 Rocket Explosion

Double Black Holes Power Quasar in Markarian 231 Galaxy

New Images Emerge from Dwarf Planet Ceres Using Dawn Space Probe

Physicists Find Radical New Way to Confine Electromagnetic Energy Without it Leaking

Researchers Working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider Find Leptons Treated in Strange Ways Unlike Standard Model

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