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ONR Honors JQI Fellow with Young Investigator Award

JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi was announced as a recipient of a 2015 ONR Young Investigator award. ONR's website describes the program as being designed to promote the professional development of early-career academic scientists – called investigators, or YIPs – both as researchers and instructors. For awardees, the funding supports laboratory equipment, graduate student stipends and scholarships, and other expenses critical to ongoing and planned investigational studies.

12 May 2015

Brookhaven Lab Team Receives Prestigious Award for Building Superconducting Hadron Collider Magnets

Following the much-anticipated recent restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a 17-member team primarily based at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory was recognized with one of DOE's most prestigious awards for successfully completing two superconducting magnets for the 17-mile-circumference collider.

12 May 2015

University of Houston to Lead Plans for Advanced Superconductor Manufacturing Institute

The University of Houston will lead plans for an Advanced Superconductor Manufacturing Institute (ASMI), aimed at speeding the full commercialization of high-temperature superconductors. Energetics Inc. will support UH in this effort.

12 May 2015

Whitewood Encryption Systems Awarded Patent for Miniaturization of Quantum Key Technology

Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc., a developer of next-generation systems of data encryption that leverage advanced cryptography technologies emerging from U.S. centers of research excellence, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 9,002,009 with claims covering miniaturized hardware that can be fabricated at-scale to facilitate secure multi-party quantum cryptography and secure all types of communications.

11 May 2015

NuSTAR Reveals Single-Sided Explosion in Nearby Supernova

Livermore - New results from the NASA NuSTAR telescope show that a supernova close to our galaxy experienced a single-sided explosion.

11 May 2015

Physical Review Publishes Paper on Cosmic Rayleigh Scattering

UBC theoretical cosmology graduate student Elham Alipour’s paper Effects of Rayleigh scattering on the CMB and cosmic structure has been selected as an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review D for its “novel insight on the effect of Rayleigh scattering on cosmological power spectra.” This distinction is reserved for a small number of papers deemed to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity.

11 May 2015

Free Talk at UC Riverside on Galaxy Formation in the Universe

Exactly how many galaxies the universe contains is unknown, but that they number in the billions is undisputed. Galaxies, which come in three main shapes – elliptical, spiral (such as the Milky Way, humanity’s home galaxy) and irregular – can be massive or small.

11 May 2015

Quantum Drude Model Captures Full Range of Electronic Responses of Water Molecules

Researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), IBM and the University of Edinburgh have developed the first conceptually simple but broadly applicable model for water.

8 May 2015

Gaseous Halo Enveloping the Andromeda Galaxy More Massive Than Previously Believed

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest massive galactic neighbor, is about six times larger and 1,000 times more massive than previously measured. The dark, nearly invisible halo stretches about a million light-years from its host galaxy, halfway to our own Milky Way galaxy. This finding promises to tell astronomers more about the evolution and structure of majestic giant spirals, one of the most common types of galaxies in the universe.

8 May 2015

US and CERN Enter Agreement for Renewed Collaboration in Particle Physics

A new agreement between the United States and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed today will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics, promising to yield new insights into fundamental particles and the nature of matter and our universe.

8 May 2015

Mercury's Magnetic Field Could Be Almost Four Billion Years Old, Suggests MESSENGER Data

New data from MESSENGER, the spacecraft that orbited Mercury for four years before crashing into the planet a week ago, reveals Mercury's magnetic field is almost four billion years old. The discovery helps scientists piece together the history of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun and one about which we knew very little before MESSENGER.

8 May 2015

Asteroids and Comets Could Be Delivering Water to Many Other Planetary Systems

Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth, new research strongly suggests.

8 May 2015

Debris and Stars' Cores Hurtle Off in Opposite Directions When Stellar Giants Die

New observations of a recently exploded star are confirming supercomputer model predictions made at Caltech that the deaths of stellar giants are lopsided affairs in which debris and the stars' cores hurtle off in opposite directions.

8 May 2015

ALMA Witnesses Ancient, Extreme Mode of Star Formation

Globular clusters - dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars - are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples are vanishingly rare and the conditions necessary to create new ones have never been detected, until now.

8 May 2015

Construction of JGU’s Center of Fundamental Physics Receives Support from the German Council of Science and Humanities

The German Council of Science and Humanities has agreed to support an application by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) for federal and state funding for a new research building for particle, astro-particle, and hadron physics. The Funding for University Buildings program is designed to exclusively provide financing for the construction of buildings housing research projects of multi-regional significance and characterized by innovative and interdisciplinary research concepts.

7 May 2015

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ONR Honors JQI Fellow with Young Investigator Award

Brookhaven Lab Team Receives Prestigious Award for Building Superconducting Hadron Collider Magnets

University of Houston to Lead Plans for Advanced Superconductor Manufacturing Institute

Whitewood Encryption Systems Awarded Patent for Miniaturization of Quantum Key Technology

NuSTAR Reveals Single-Sided Explosion in Nearby Supernova

Physical Review Publishes Paper on Cosmic Rayleigh Scattering

Free Talk at UC Riverside on Galaxy Formation in the Universe

Quantum Drude Model Captures Full Range of Electronic Responses of Water Molecules

Gaseous Halo Enveloping the Andromeda Galaxy More Massive Than Previously Believed

US and CERN Enter Agreement for Renewed Collaboration in Particle Physics

Mercury's Magnetic Field Could Be Almost Four Billion Years Old, Suggests MESSENGER Data

Asteroids and Comets Could Be Delivering Water to Many Other Planetary Systems

Debris and Stars' Cores Hurtle Off in Opposite Directions When Stellar Giants Die

ALMA Witnesses Ancient, Extreme Mode of Star Formation

Construction of JGU’s Center of Fundamental Physics Receives Support from the German Council of Science and Humanities

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