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Large Amounts of Methyl Cyanide Observed in Protoplanetary Disc Surrounding Young Star

The new ALMA observations reveal that the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star MWC 480 [1] contains large amounts of methyl cyanide (CH3CN), a complex carbon-based molecule. There is enough methyl cyanide around MWC 480 to fill all of Earth's oceans.

9 Apr 2015

Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy Appears Like a Cosmic Ring

Astronomers have discovered that a distant galaxy -- seen from Earth with the aid of a gravitational lens -- appears like a cosmic ring, thanks to the highest resolution images ever taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

8 Apr 2015

New Stage Play Shows New Sides of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Robert Marc Friedman at the University of Oslo is creating theatre from scholarship in a new stage play entitled “Transcendence”, which shows new sides of Einstein’s theory of relativity

8 Apr 2015

Fermilab Successfully Develops Twin-Aperture Accelerator Superconducting Magnet

Last month, a new superconducting magnet developed and fabricated at Fermilab reached its design field of 11.5 Tesla at a temperature nearly as cold as outer space. It is the first successful twin-aperture accelerator magnet made of niobium-3-tin in the world.

7 Apr 2015

The Large Hadron Collider Begins its Second Run

Earlier today, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator began its second act. After two years of upgrades and repairs, proton beams once again circulated around the Large Hadron Collider, located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

6 Apr 2015

New Molecule Created with Large Permanent Dipole Moment

A proposed pathway to construct quantum computers may be the outcome of research by a University of Oklahoma physics team that has created a new molecule based on the interaction between a highly-excited type of atom known as a Rydberg atom and a ground-state atom. A unique property of the molecule is the large permanent dipole moment, which reacts with an electric field much like a bar magnet reacts with a magnetic field.

6 Apr 2015

New Kind of Charge Transport Phenomenon

Researchers of Aalto and the German University of Marburg have collaborated in the study of the movement of charges over interfaces of semiconductor materials. The group noticed a new kind of transport phenomenon for charges. In the phenomenon, a pair formed by a negative electron and a positive charge moves onto an interface, after which its 'message' is passed on to the other side of the interface, where it is carried on by a similar pair. The new theoretical result opens up interesting prospects for carrying out logical operations in electronics.

6 Apr 2015

Sheffield Scientists Hope to Make a Significant Breakthrough When the LHC Restarts

Scientists at the University of Sheffield are hoping their work will help to make a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the fundamental laws that govern the universe as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to be switched back on over Easter.

6 Apr 2015

Real-Time Look at Massive Star Development

A pair of images of a young star, made 18 years apart, has revealed a dramatic difference that is providing astronomers with a unique, "real-time" look at how massive stars develop in the earliest stages of their formation.

6 Apr 2015

Information May Not Get Lost in Black Holes

Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. Burn a book, and you could theoretically do the same. But send information into a black hole, and it's lost forever.

6 Apr 2015

Further Open Access Agreement Announced by CERN and Elsevier

CERN and Elsevier (link is external) have announced that articles published by CERN authors Elsevier Physics journals that are not covered by the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative will now be Open Access.

3 Apr 2015

Only a Single White Dwarf was Involved in Explosion of 3C 397 Supernova Remnant

Using archival data from the Japan-led Suzaku X-ray satellite, astronomers have determined the pre-explosion mass of a white dwarf star that blew up thousands of years ago. The measurement strongly suggests the explosion involved only a single white dwarf, ruling out a well-established alternative scenario involving a pair of merging white dwarfs.

3 Apr 2015

NASA's Hubble Photographs Ephemeral Ghosts of Quasars

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded.

3 Apr 2015

Atom-Specific Probing of Frontier-Orbital Interactions Enables Correlating Quantum-Chemical Properties with Reactivity

They developed their own experiment for this investigation at the Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, which provided time resolutions down to 100 femtoseconds, and the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.

3 Apr 2015

Bristol Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation on a Silicon Chip

The core circuits of quantum teleportation, which generate and detect quantum entanglement, have been successfully integrated into a photonic chip by an international team of scientists from the universities of Bristol, Tokyo, Southampton and NTT Device Technology Laboratories.

3 Apr 2015

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Large Amounts of Methyl Cyanide Observed in Protoplanetary Disc Surrounding Young Star

Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy Appears Like a Cosmic Ring

New Stage Play Shows New Sides of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

Fermilab Successfully Develops Twin-Aperture Accelerator Superconducting Magnet

The Large Hadron Collider Begins its Second Run

New Molecule Created with Large Permanent Dipole Moment

New Kind of Charge Transport Phenomenon

Sheffield Scientists Hope to Make a Significant Breakthrough When the LHC Restarts

Real-Time Look at Massive Star Development

Information May Not Get Lost in Black Holes

Further Open Access Agreement Announced by CERN and Elsevier

Only a Single White Dwarf was Involved in Explosion of 3C 397 Supernova Remnant

NASA's Hubble Photographs Ephemeral Ghosts of Quasars

Atom-Specific Probing of Frontier-Orbital Interactions Enables Correlating Quantum-Chemical Properties with Reactivity

Bristol Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation on a Silicon Chip

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