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Debris and Stars' Cores Hurtle Off in Opposite Directions When Stellar Giants Die

New observations of a recently exploded star are confirming supercomputer model predictions made at Caltech that the deaths of stellar giants are lopsided affairs in which debris and the stars' cores hurtle off in opposite directions.

8 May 2015

ALMA Witnesses Ancient, Extreme Mode of Star Formation

Globular clusters - dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars - are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples are vanishingly rare and the conditions necessary to create new ones have never been detected, until now.

8 May 2015

Construction of JGU’s Center of Fundamental Physics Receives Support from the German Council of Science and Humanities

The German Council of Science and Humanities has agreed to support an application by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) for federal and state funding for a new research building for particle, astro-particle, and hadron physics. The Funding for University Buildings program is designed to exclusively provide financing for the construction of buildings housing research projects of multi-regional significance and characterized by innovative and interdisciplinary research concepts.

7 May 2015

European Commission May Allow Use of Cadmium-Based Quantum Dot Technology for Displays

Cadmium, a toxic substance and carcinogen regulated by the Directive on Restriction of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) will be allowed in displays of televisions and other electronic and electrical equipment for the European market should draft European Commission regulation pass. The issue will be discussed at an Environment Committee meeting of the European Parliament on 7 May. Parliament has a veto right.

7 May 2015

Thallium Sulfide Iodide Holds Promise for Fabricating Room-Temperature Semiconductor Radiation Detectors

Radiation detectors, which monitor high-energy particles such as those produced by nuclear decay and cosmic radiation, are being used increasingly in medical imaging, petroleum well logging, astronomy and national security.

6 May 2015

Novel Microfabricated Ion Trap Architecture Could Help Increase Qubit Densities for Quantum Computers

Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest supercomputers today.

6 May 2015

Forming Planets Could Be Responsible for Gaps in Dust and Gas Swirling Around HL Tau Star

A recent and famous image from deep space marks the first time we've seen a forming planetary system, according to a study by U of T astrophysicists.

6 May 2015

The University of Manchester to Play Key Role in Experiment to Detect Neutrinos

Scientists at Fermilab, just outside Chicago, want to fire a beam of particles through 1,300km (800 miles) of rock some 30km below the surface to a detector built in a former mine in South Dakota.

6 May 2015

Astronomers Discover Exceptionally Luminous Galaxy in the Early Universe

An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California-Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5% of its present age.

6 May 2015

String Theory ‘Legos’ Could Help Understand Extreme Physics of Black Holes

Four decades ago, Dr. Stephen Hawking posed a paradox about black holes that still challenges the imaginations of physicists today. The “information paradox” suggests that nothing, not even information itself, survives beyond a black hole’s event horizon, which clashes with the quantum principle that information cannot be destroyed.

6 May 2015

Massive Superconducting Electromagnet Crosses the Country to Unlock Secrets of the Atom

Why did the 40,000-pound superconducting magnet cross the country? The full answer to this twist on the old joke is complicated, but here’s the short version: to unlock the secrets of the atom.

5 May 2015

University of Zurich Honors EPFL Professor for Contributions to Experimental Particle Physics

Professor Tatsuya Nakada has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich for his fundamental and long-lasting contributions to experimental particle physics.

5 May 2015

Galactic Cosmic Rays Can Damage Astronaut’s Central Nervous System

What happens to an astronaut's brain during a mission to Mars? Nothing good. It's besieged by destructive particles that can forever impair cognition, according to a UC Irvine radiation oncology study appearing in the May 1 edition of Science Advances.

4 May 2015

Researchers Develop New Theory to Calculate Helium's Polarizability Using Quantum Electrodynamics

Most of us know helium as the lighter-than-air gas that puts lift into birthday balloons or makes a baritone's resonant voice sound more like Donald Duck's.

4 May 2015

High School Students Discover Pulsar with Widest Orbit Around Another Neutron Star

A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Further observations by astronomers using the GBT revealed that this pulsar has the widest orbit of any around a neutron star and is part of only a handful of double neutron star systems.

4 May 2015

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Debris and Stars' Cores Hurtle Off in Opposite Directions When Stellar Giants Die

ALMA Witnesses Ancient, Extreme Mode of Star Formation

Construction of JGU’s Center of Fundamental Physics Receives Support from the German Council of Science and Humanities

European Commission May Allow Use of Cadmium-Based Quantum Dot Technology for Displays

Thallium Sulfide Iodide Holds Promise for Fabricating Room-Temperature Semiconductor Radiation Detectors

Novel Microfabricated Ion Trap Architecture Could Help Increase Qubit Densities for Quantum Computers

Forming Planets Could Be Responsible for Gaps in Dust and Gas Swirling Around HL Tau Star

The University of Manchester to Play Key Role in Experiment to Detect Neutrinos

Astronomers Discover Exceptionally Luminous Galaxy in the Early Universe

String Theory ‘Legos’ Could Help Understand Extreme Physics of Black Holes

Massive Superconducting Electromagnet Crosses the Country to Unlock Secrets of the Atom

University of Zurich Honors EPFL Professor for Contributions to Experimental Particle Physics

Galactic Cosmic Rays Can Damage Astronaut’s Central Nervous System

Researchers Develop New Theory to Calculate Helium's Polarizability Using Quantum Electrodynamics

High School Students Discover Pulsar with Widest Orbit Around Another Neutron Star

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