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Astronomers Discover Ancient Sun-Like Star with Orbiting Planets

A Sun-like star with orbiting planets, dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy, has been discovered by an international team of astronomers.

29 Jan 2015

Ames Lab Professor Bestowed Humboldt Research Award

As a physicist, Paul Canfield sometimes goes “hunting for the phoenix” – a mythical bird with a life that spans centuries, of which at the end it ignites and burns to ashes so a new, young phoenix will arise.

29 Jan 2015

NASA’s Dawn Returns Sharpest Images Ever of Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned the sharpest images ever seen of the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on Jan. 25, and represent a new milestone for a spacecraft that soon will become the first human-made probe to visit a dwarf planet.

29 Jan 2015

Kagome Nanostructure Allows Undistorted Transmission of Extremely Short Infrared Laser Pulses

In a marathon, everyone starts at roughly the same place at roughly the same time. But the faster runners will gradually increase their lead, and in the end, the distribution of runners on the street will be very broad. Something similar happens to a pulse of light sent through a medium.

28 Jan 2015

Astronomers May Have Witnessed a Giant Black Hole Tear a Star Apart

A five-year analysis of an event captured by a tiny telescope at McDonald Observatory and followed up by telescopes on the ground and in space has led astronomers to believe they witnessed a giant black hole tear apart a star. The work is published this month in The Astrophysical Journal.

28 Jan 2015

Scientists Directly Image Interaction of Electrons within a Single Molecule

Understanding this kind of electronic effects in organic molecules is crucial for their use in optoelectronic applications, for example in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and solar cells.

28 Jan 2015

European Commission Ruling Confirms Benefits of QD Vision’s Quantum Dot Technology for the Environment

QD Vision, Inc., the leading manufacturer of quantum dot solutions for display products, announced that the European Commission has granted an exemption to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS 2) Directive for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE). The ruling confirms that QD Vision’s Color IQ™ quantum dot technology is beneficial for the environment.

28 Jan 2015

Springfield Physicist Wins William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson Prize

Will Bergan always wanted to be a scientist. One day when he was in middle school, he decided he should begin the weighty deliberations necessary for choosing a particular scientific discipline.

28 Jan 2015

Fermi Bubble Studies May Offer Insight into Galaxy’s History and Dark Matter

Compared to other galaxies, the Milky Way is a peaceful place. But it hasn't always been so sleepy. In 2010, a team of scientists working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a pair of "Fermi bubbles" extending tens of thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way's disk.

28 Jan 2015

HESS Discovers Most Luminous High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

Once again, the gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. has demonstrated its detecting capabilities: in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the High Energy Stereoscopic System discovered most luminous high-energy gamma-ray sources.

28 Jan 2015

InAs/GaSb Type II Superlattice Demonstrates MWIR Images While Operating at High Temperatures

From aerial surveillance to cancer detection, mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) radiation has a wide range of applications. And as the uses for high-sensitivity, high-resolution imaging continue to expand, MWIR sources are becoming more attractive.

28 Jan 2015

Hadron Physics Experiments to be Pursued at the HESR Storage Ring

For more than 20 years, scientists at COSY have been investigating processes inside atomic nuclei. In 2015, the focus will turn to new questions. Hadron physics experiments will be pursued in future at the HESR storage ring at the international accelerator complex FAIR in Darmstadt. HESR is three times larger than COSY. At COSY, in contrast, preparations are under way for measuring fundamental symmetry violations.

27 Jan 2015

Researchers Construct Concrete Static Charged Solutions of Horava Gravity to Show Existence of Universal Horizons

Lorentz invariance (LI) is a cornerstone of modern physics, and strongly supported by observations.

27 Jan 2015

Scientists Manage to Slow Photons in Free Space

Scientists have long known that the speed of light can be slowed slightly as it travels through materials such as water or glass.

27 Jan 2015

Study Demonstrates Role of Optical Stark Effect in Valleytronics

A potential avenue to quantum computing currently generating quite the buzz in the high-tech industry is “valleytronics,” in which information is coded based on the wavelike motion of electrons moving through certain two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Now, a promising new pathway to valleytronic technology has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

27 Jan 2015

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Astronomers Discover Ancient Sun-Like Star with Orbiting Planets

Ames Lab Professor Bestowed Humboldt Research Award

NASA’s Dawn Returns Sharpest Images Ever of Dwarf Planet Ceres

Kagome Nanostructure Allows Undistorted Transmission of Extremely Short Infrared Laser Pulses

Astronomers May Have Witnessed a Giant Black Hole Tear a Star Apart

Scientists Directly Image Interaction of Electrons within a Single Molecule

European Commission Ruling Confirms Benefits of QD Vision’s Quantum Dot Technology for the Environment

Springfield Physicist Wins William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson Prize

Fermi Bubble Studies May Offer Insight into Galaxy’s History and Dark Matter

HESS Discovers Most Luminous High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

InAs/GaSb Type II Superlattice Demonstrates MWIR Images While Operating at High Temperatures

Hadron Physics Experiments to be Pursued at the HESR Storage Ring

Researchers Construct Concrete Static Charged Solutions of Horava Gravity to Show Existence of Universal Horizons

Scientists Manage to Slow Photons in Free Space

Study Demonstrates Role of Optical Stark Effect in Valleytronics

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