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Destructive High-Energy Electrons from Space Bombard Earth's Atmosphere

Potentially destructive high-energy electrons streak into Earth's atmosphere from space, not as Shakespeare's "gentle rain from heaven," but at velocities approaching the speed of light.

24 Jul 2015

Astronomers Discover Jets of Material Ejected by Still-Forming Young Brown Dwarfs

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered jets of material ejected by still-forming young brown dwarfs. The discovery is the first direct evidence that brown dwarfs, intermediate in mass between stars and planets, are produced by a scaled-down version of the same process that produces stars.

24 Jul 2015

Assembly of Galaxies in the Early Universe Observed Using ALMA Telescope

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to detect the most distant clouds of star-forming gas yet found in normal galaxies in the early Universe.

23 Jul 2015

Fast-Moving Pulsar Punches Hole in Gas Disk Around Companion Star

A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is tracking this cosmic clump, which appears to be picking up speed as it moves out.

23 Jul 2015

Unexpected Particle Interactions Observed in Proton and Lead-Nuclei Collisions

Three years ago, Rice physicists and their colleagues on the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC’s) Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment stumbled on an unexpected phenomenon.

23 Jul 2015

Dark Matter Could be Acting Similar to Pion Subatomic Particles

A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s.

23 Jul 2015

Ripple Leads to Previously Undetected Dwarf Galaxy Hidden Under Veil of Dark Matter

A ripple in the outskirts of the Milky Way—and a hunch—led Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti to a previously undetected dwarf galaxy hidden under a veil of dark matter.

23 Jul 2015

Researchers Develop 3-D Model of Giant Star's Last Moments

Giant stars die a violent death. After a life of several million years, they collapse into themselves and then explode in what is known as a supernova.

22 Jul 2015

Some Features of the Real World Must Share Entanglement of the Quantum Domain

Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of 20th century science, yet physicists have struggled to find a clear boundary between our everyday world and what Albert Einstein called the "spooky" features of the quantum world, including cats that could be both alive and dead, and photons that can communicate with each other across space instantaneously.

22 Jul 2015

Study Shows Electrons Could Cross Spins Much Faster than Previously Thought

In a tremendous boost for spintronic technologies, EPFL scientists have shown that electrons can jump through spins much faster than previously thought.

21 Jul 2015

Coma Galaxy Cluster May Contain More Dark Matter than Visible Matter

Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study.

20 Jul 2015

New Books Feature Original Manuscript of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

On November 25, 1915, Albert Einstein submitted his final version of the general theory of relativity to the Prussian Royal Academy. Einstein's revolutionary explanation of how gravity works had far-reaching consequences. Not only does the theory accurately explain the motion of the planets; it also describes the history and expansion of the universe, the physics of black holes, and the bending of light from distant stars and galaxies. Over the years, the radical ideas that a 35-year-old Einstein proposed 100 years ago have been confirmed by many observations and experiments.

20 Jul 2015

TcSUH Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Field of Superconductivity

Herbert C. Freyhardt, research professor at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TcSUH), has received the International Cryogenic Materials Conference Lifetime Achievement Award.

20 Jul 2015

UC Physicist Discovers New Class of Subatomic Particles

A UC physicist is among a prestigious group to discover a new class of subatomic particles. Known as pentaquarks, they may shed new light on the fundamental principles of how ordinary matter, protons and neutrons from which we are all made, is comprised.

20 Jul 2015

New Functionalized Homoepitaxial Structures Hold Promise for Graphene-Based Spintronic Devices

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have created a new type of room-temperature tunnel device structure in which the tunnel barrier and transport channel are made of the same material, graphene. Such functionalized homoepitaxial structures provide an elegant approach for realization of graphene-based spintronic, or spin electronic, devices. The research results are reported in a paper published in the journal ACS Nano (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02795).

20 Jul 2015

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Destructive High-Energy Electrons from Space Bombard Earth's Atmosphere

Astronomers Discover Jets of Material Ejected by Still-Forming Young Brown Dwarfs

Assembly of Galaxies in the Early Universe Observed Using ALMA Telescope

Fast-Moving Pulsar Punches Hole in Gas Disk Around Companion Star

Unexpected Particle Interactions Observed in Proton and Lead-Nuclei Collisions

Dark Matter Could be Acting Similar to Pion Subatomic Particles

Ripple Leads to Previously Undetected Dwarf Galaxy Hidden Under Veil of Dark Matter

Researchers Develop 3-D Model of Giant Star's Last Moments

Some Features of the Real World Must Share Entanglement of the Quantum Domain

Study Shows Electrons Could Cross Spins Much Faster than Previously Thought

Coma Galaxy Cluster May Contain More Dark Matter than Visible Matter

New Books Feature Original Manuscript of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

TcSUH Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Field of Superconductivity

UC Physicist Discovers New Class of Subatomic Particles

New Functionalized Homoepitaxial Structures Hold Promise for Graphene-Based Spintronic Devices

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