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Three Fermilab Scientists Honored as American Physical Society Fellows

Last month, three Fermilab scientists were named fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinction awarded each year to no more than one-half of 1 percent of current APS members by their peers.

12 Jan 2015

NuSTAR Pinpoints True Monster of Galactic Mashup

A new high-energy X-ray image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has pinpointed the true monster of a galactic mashup. The image shows two colliding galaxies, collectively called Arp 299, located 134 million light-years away. Each of the galaxies has a supermassive black hole at its heart.

12 Jan 2015

Realistic Galaxies in Simulation of the Universe

An international team of astronomers, including Dr Rob Crain from the LJMU Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI), have developed a simulation of the Universe in which realistic galaxies are created. Astronomers can now use the results to study the development of galaxies from almost 14 billion years ago until now.

12 Jan 2015

Dow and LG Partner to Provide Ultra HD TVs with Cadmium-Free Quantum Dot Technology

The Dow Chemical Company is pleased to announce it is partnering with LG Electronics (LG) to provide cadmium-free quantum dot technology for LGs new Ultra HD TV with quantum dots unveiled Tuesday at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

12 Jan 2015

Photonic Booms May Help Reveal Size and Surface Features of Asteroids

If you sweep a laser pointer across the Moon fast enough, you can create spots that actually move faster than light. Anyone can do it.

9 Jan 2015

Quantum Dots Offer Very High Color Purity for Displays

Outside his career as a noted nanochemist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) director Paul Alivisatos is an avid photographer. To show off his photos, his preferred device is a Kindle Fire HDX tablet because “the color display is a whole lot better than other tablets,” he says.

9 Jan 2015

Scientists Successfully Measure Topological Chern Number in Non-Electronic System

Scientists extract the topological number of an artificial solid subjected to extreme effective magnetic fields

9 Jan 2015

Andromeda Galaxy May Have Had a More Violent History

A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy has found striking differences from our own Milky Way, suggesting a more violent history of mergers with smaller galaxies in Andromeda's recent past.

9 Jan 2015

Astronomers Determine Mass of Neutron Star Just Before it Vanishes

In an interstellar race against time, astronomers have measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star--just before it vanished from view.

9 Jan 2015

Prototype Optical Quantum Hard Drive Has Record Storage Time

Scientists developing a prototype quantum hard drive have improved storage time by a factor of more than 100.

9 Jan 2015

Compendium of Data on Simultaneous Research of Three Supernovas and Corresponding Gamma-Ray Bursts

An international consortium, in which the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Ikerbasque and CSIC are participating, has published in a single article a compendium of data obtained after the simultaneous research of three supernovas and of their corresponding Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB).

9 Jan 2015

Exotic Split of Electrons Can Take Place in Quasi Two-Dimensional Magnetic Materials

A study led by EPFL has shown for the first time that electrons split into electrical charge and magnetic moment in a two-dimensional model. The discovery marks a new understanding in the discovery of exotic materials such as high-temperature superconductors.

9 Jan 2015

ASAS-SN Detects More Supernovae Than Other Professional Astronomical Surveys

SEATTLE--While many astronomical collaborations use powerful telescopes to target individual objects in the distant universe, a new project at The Ohio State University is doing something radically different: using small telescopes to study a growing portion of the nearby universe all at once.

8 Jan 2015

Repeating Light Signal from Distant Quasar May Signify Merger of Supermassive Black Holes

The central regions of many glittering galaxies, our own Milky Way included, harbor cores of impenetrable darkness -- black holes with masses equivalent to millions, or even billions, of suns. What's more, these supermassive black holes and their host galaxies appear to develop together, or "co-evolve." Theory predicts that as galaxies collide and merge, growing ever more massive, so too do their dark hearts.

8 Jan 2015

ESO's Wide Field Imager Captures Image of Lynds Dark Nebula 483

Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new ESO image. But the black gap in this glitteringly beautiful starfield is not really a gap, but rather a region of space clogged with gas and dust. This dark cloud is called LDN 483 -- for Lynds Dark Nebula 483. Such clouds are the birthplaces of future stars.

8 Jan 2015

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Three Fermilab Scientists Honored as American Physical Society Fellows

NuSTAR Pinpoints True Monster of Galactic Mashup

Realistic Galaxies in Simulation of the Universe

Dow and LG Partner to Provide Ultra HD TVs with Cadmium-Free Quantum Dot Technology

Photonic Booms May Help Reveal Size and Surface Features of Asteroids

Quantum Dots Offer Very High Color Purity for Displays

Scientists Successfully Measure Topological Chern Number in Non-Electronic System

Andromeda Galaxy May Have Had a More Violent History

Astronomers Determine Mass of Neutron Star Just Before it Vanishes

Prototype Optical Quantum Hard Drive Has Record Storage Time

Compendium of Data on Simultaneous Research of Three Supernovas and Corresponding Gamma-Ray Bursts

Exotic Split of Electrons Can Take Place in Quasi Two-Dimensional Magnetic Materials

ASAS-SN Detects More Supernovae Than Other Professional Astronomical Surveys

Repeating Light Signal from Distant Quasar May Signify Merger of Supermassive Black Holes

ESO's Wide Field Imager Captures Image of Lynds Dark Nebula 483

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