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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

New Micro-Ring Entangles Individual Particles of Light

Unlike Bilbo's magic ring, which entangles human hearts, engineers have created a new micro-ring that entangles individual particles of light, an important first step in a whole host of new technologies.

27 Jan 2015

Scientists Control Material Structure to Simultaneously Generate Magnetisation and Electrical Polarisation

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have controlled the structure of a material to simultaneously generate both magnetisation and electrical polarisation, an advance which has potential applications in information storage and processing.

27 Jan 2015

SPIDER Instrument to Map the Cosmic Microwave Background Lands in Antarctica

After spending 16 days suspended from a giant helium balloon floating 115,000 feet (35,000 meters) above Antarctica, a scientific instrument dubbed SPIDER has landed in a remote region of the frozen continent.

23 Jan 2015

‘Changing Look’ Quasar May Have its Own Dimmer Switch

Yale University astronomers have identified the first "changing look" quasar, a gleaming object in deep space that appears to have its own dimmer switch.

23 Jan 2015

Physicists Aim to Bridge the Gap Between Stars and Galaxies, and Fundamental Particles and Forces

Call it macro-micro physics: the study of the huge paired with the study of the very, very small.

23 Jan 2015

Vesta May Have Had Short-Lived Flows of Water-Mobilized Material on its Surface

Protoplanet Vesta, visited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft from 2011 to 2013, was once thought to be completely dry, incapable of retaining water because of the low temperatures and pressures at its surface. However, a new study shows evidence that Vesta may have had short-lived flows of water-mobilized material on its surface, based on data from Dawn.

23 Jan 2015

Visiting Lecturers to Speak About String Theory and Nanophotonics at Baylor University

As a part of Baylor’s Department of Physics 2015 Spring Physics Colloquium Series, two visiting lecturers will speak about string theory and nanophotonics.

23 Jan 2015

Researchers Monitor How Xenon Atoms Condensate in Quantum Wells

An international team of physicists has succeeded in mapping the condensation of individual atoms, or rather their transition from a gaseous state to another state, using a new method. Led by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel, the team was able to monitor for the first time how xenon atoms condensate in microscopic measuring beakers, or quantum wells, thereby enabling key conclusions to be drawn as to the nature of atomic bonding. The researchers published their results in the journal Nature Communications.

23 Jan 2015

Protons and Neutrons in Atomic Nuclei Do Not Behave According to Existing Theoretical Models

Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei turn out not to behave according to the predictions made by existing theoretical models. This surprising conclusion, reached by an international team of physicists including staff members from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw (UW), forces us to reconsider how we have been describing large atomic nuclei for the past several decades.

22 Jan 2015

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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

New Micro-Ring Entangles Individual Particles of Light

Scientists Control Material Structure to Simultaneously Generate Magnetisation and Electrical Polarisation

SPIDER Instrument to Map the Cosmic Microwave Background Lands in Antarctica

‘Changing Look’ Quasar May Have its Own Dimmer Switch

Physicists Aim to Bridge the Gap Between Stars and Galaxies, and Fundamental Particles and Forces

Vesta May Have Had Short-Lived Flows of Water-Mobilized Material on its Surface

Visiting Lecturers to Speak About String Theory and Nanophotonics at Baylor University

Researchers Monitor How Xenon Atoms Condensate in Quantum Wells

Protons and Neutrons in Atomic Nuclei Do Not Behave According to Existing Theoretical Models

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