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Northeastern University Conducts Experiment with CERN

What does it take to push the boundaries on the known facts of what the universe is made up of?

9 Jul 2015

Study Provides New Insights into Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Galaxy

Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way are three times more likely to have the same type of minerals as Earth than astronomers had previously thought. In fact, conditions for making the building blocks of Earth-like rocks are ubiquitous throughout the Milky Way.

9 Jul 2015

Scanning Quantum Dot Microscopy Enables Ultrahigh-Resolution Imaging of Electric Potential Fields

Using a single molecule as a sensor, scientists in Jülich have successfully imaged electric potential fields with unrivalled precision. The ultrahigh-resolution images provide information on the distribution of charges in the electron shells of single molecules and even atoms.

9 Jul 2015

Holographic Superconductor Could Be Realized in HL Gravity

Today theoretical physicists are facing the difficulty that General Relativity is not (pertubatively) renormalizable, and find that it is very hard to construct the quantum theory of gravity with LI. A possible solution is to break the LI in the ultraviolet (UV) region, so that the theory is renormalizable and unitary.

8 Jul 2015

PanDA Workload Management System Evolves to Meet LHC's Full-Energy Collision Data

With the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), now operating at nearly twice its former collision energy, comes an enormous increase in the volume of data physicists must sift through to search for new discoveries. Thanks to planning and a pilot project funded by the offices of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and High-Energy Physics within the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, a remarkable data-management tool developed by physicists at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Arlington is evolving to meet the big-data challenge.

8 Jul 2015

New Method to Solve General Relativity’s Gravitational N-Body Problem

Recent experiments have successfully tested Einstein's general theory of relativity in a variety of ways and to remarkable precision. These experiments included spacecraft Doppler tracking, planetary radar ranging, lunar and satellite laser ranging, as well as a number of dedicated gravitational experiments in space and many ground based efforts. How can computational models keep up with the ever improving accuracy of these missions?

8 Jul 2015

Researchers Study Mutual Influence of Magnetic and Geometric Ordering in Crystalline Spinel

A team at HZB has carried out the first detailed study of how magnetic and geometric ordering mutually influence one another in crystalline samples of spinel. To achieve this, the group synthesized a series of mixed crystals with the chemical formula Ni1-xCuxCr2O4 in which the element nickel was successively replaced by copper. They discovered through neutron scattering experiments at BER II not only how the crystal structure changes, but also uncovered new magnetic phases. The results were published in Physical Review B.

8 Jul 2015

Supercomputers Help Investigate Exotic Mesons

Quarks and antiquarks are the teeny, tiny building blocks with which all matter is built, binding together to form protons and neutrons in a process explained by quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

8 Jul 2015

Planck Satellite Provides New Images of Rings and Loops in the Stars

A ring of dust 200 light years across and a loop covering a third of the sky: two of the results in a new map from the Planck satellite. Dr Mike Peel and Dr Paddy Leahy of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JCBA) presented the images today at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2015) at Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales.

7 Jul 2015

Micro-Gravitational Lens Helps Localize Origin of High-Energy Gamma Radiation from Gas Jets

Turbulent processes take place close to supermassive black holes, which lurk in the centres of nearly all galaxies. They swallow up matter flowing in from the outside while at the same time producing so-called gas jets which shoot out into space in two opposite directions.

7 Jul 2015

X-ray Laser Helps Record Effects of Shock Waves Rippling Across Diamond

Researchers have used an X-ray laser to record, in detail never possible before, the microscopic motion and effects of shock waves rippling across diamond.

7 Jul 2015

LHC Begins Run 2 Second Multi-Year Operating Period with Nearly Double Collision Energies

At the beginning of June, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European research facility, began smashing together protons once again. The high-energy particle collisions taking place deep underground along the border between Switzerland and France are intended to allow physicists to probe the furthest edges of our knowledge of the universe and its tiniest building blocks.

7 Jul 2015

Astronomers Discover Ring of Rocks Circling Very Young Star

A team of astronomers led from St Andrews and Manchester universities today (6 July) announced the discovery of a ring of rocks circling a very young star.

6 Jul 2015

NuSTAR Reveals Hidden Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers have found evidence for a large population of hidden supermassive black holes in the Universe.

6 Jul 2015

Sequential ‘Snapshots’ of Ultrafast Quantum Unidirectionally Rotating Molecules

Can you imagine how subnano-scale molecules make an ultrafast rotation at a hundred billion per second? Do the ultrafast rotating subnano-scale molecules show a wave-like nature rather than particle-like behavior? The Japanese research team led by Professor Yasuhiro Ohshima at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Dr Kenta Mizuse at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, successfully took sequential "snapshots" of ultrafast unidirectionally rotating molecules at a hundred billion per second.

6 Jul 2015

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Northeastern University Conducts Experiment with CERN

Study Provides New Insights into Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Galaxy

Scanning Quantum Dot Microscopy Enables Ultrahigh-Resolution Imaging of Electric Potential Fields

Holographic Superconductor Could Be Realized in HL Gravity

PanDA Workload Management System Evolves to Meet LHC's Full-Energy Collision Data

New Method to Solve General Relativity’s Gravitational N-Body Problem

Researchers Study Mutual Influence of Magnetic and Geometric Ordering in Crystalline Spinel

Supercomputers Help Investigate Exotic Mesons

Planck Satellite Provides New Images of Rings and Loops in the Stars

Micro-Gravitational Lens Helps Localize Origin of High-Energy Gamma Radiation from Gas Jets

X-ray Laser Helps Record Effects of Shock Waves Rippling Across Diamond

LHC Begins Run 2 Second Multi-Year Operating Period with Nearly Double Collision Energies

Astronomers Discover Ring of Rocks Circling Very Young Star

NuSTAR Reveals Hidden Supermassive Black Holes

Sequential ‘Snapshots’ of Ultrafast Quantum Unidirectionally Rotating Molecules

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