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Hubble Provides Best Evidence for Underground Saltwater Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface.

16 Mar 2015

Abundance of Methane Spews into Atmosphere of Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has measured a curious abundance of methane spewing into the atmosphere of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. A team of American and French scientists published findings in Geophysical Research Letters suggesting two scenarios that could explain the methane abundance observed in the plumes.

16 Mar 2015

Ghent University Leads Research and Training Program on Quantum Dots

Professor François Légaré of the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre has been awarded the 2015 Herzberg Medal by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) in recognition of his outstanding contributions in ultrafast molecular imaging and the development of high peak power infrared lasers for high harmonic generation and tissue imaging using optical nonlinear microscopy.

16 Mar 2015

Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Image of Mid-Level Solar Flare

The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 12:22 p.m. EDT on March 11, 2015. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation.

13 Mar 2015

Rare Rare ‘Quantum Jitters’ Appear to Tune Frequency of Spontaneous Mutations"Quantum Jitters" May Have Far-Reaching Consequences

The molecular machines that copy DNA in a living cell are amazingly fast and accurate at pairing up the correct bases -- G with C and A with T -- into each new double helix.

13 Mar 2015

Hydrothermal Activity May Be Taking Place Within Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

A new study by a team of Cassini mission scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder have found that microscopic grains of rock detected near Saturn imply hydrothermal activity is taking place within the moon Enceladus.

13 Mar 2015

Researchers Demonstrate Coulomb Crystallization of Highly-Charged Ions for the First Time

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig and the University of Aarhus in Denmark demonstrated for the first time Coulomb crystallization of highly-charged ions (HCIs).

13 Mar 2015

New Classification of Charge Density Waves Based Upon Their Nature

LSU Professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Ward Plummer and Jiandi Zhang, in collaboration with their colleagues from the Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 112, pg. 2367) titled "Classification of Charge Density Waves based on their Nature." This work is a result of a collaboration funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

13 Mar 2015

High School Students Participate in International Particle Physics Masterclass at UC Riverside

On March 10 and 11, approximately 35 students from San Jacinto High School and Valencia High School visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside to participate in the International Particle Physics Masterclass, an annual program of the European Particle Physics Outreach Group.

13 Mar 2015

Rice University Physicist Awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship

Rice University physicist Wei Li is among the 126 American and Canadian scholars awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships. The prestigious fellowships, awarded annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, are given to early career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential mark them as rising stars.

12 Mar 2015

Giant Stars in Cluster NGC 6193 Provide Main Source of Illumination for the Rim Nebula

At the centre of the image is the open star cluster NGC 6193, containing around thirty bright stars and forming the heart of the Ara OB1 association. The two brightest stars are very hot giant stars. Together, they provide the main source of illumination for the nearby emission nebula, the Rim Nebula, or NGC 6188, which is visible to the right of the cluster.

12 Mar 2015

Crucial Step Towards Better Understanding of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Shortly following the Big Bang, the Universe was filled with a chaotic primordial soup of quarks and gluons, particles which are now trapped inside of protons and neutrons. Study of this quark-gluon plasma requires the use of the most advanced theoretical and experimental tools. Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has taken one crucial step towards a better understanding of the plasma and its properties, and recently published the results of their latest analysis.

12 Mar 2015

Galactic Disk Contoured Into Several Concentric Ripples

The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contoured into several concentric ripples. The research, conducted by an international team led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Heidi Jo Newberg, revisits astronomical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey which, in 2002, established the presence of a bulging ring of stars beyond the known plane of the Milky Way.

12 Mar 2015

Researchers Spot Black Hole That Grew to Gargantuan Size

A black hole that grew to gargantuan size in the Universe's first billion years is by far the largest yet spotted from such an early date, researchers have announced. The object, discovered by astronomers in 2013, is 12 billion times as massive as the Sun, and six times greater than its largest-known contemporaries. Its existence poses a challenge for theories of the evolution of black holes, stars and galaxies, astronomers say.

12 Mar 2015

Astronomers Identify Nine New Dwarf Satellites Orbiting the Milky Way

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once. The findings, from newly-released imaging data taken from the Dark Energy Survey, may help unravel the mysteries behind dark matter, the invisible substance holding galaxies together.

12 Mar 2015

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Hubble Provides Best Evidence for Underground Saltwater Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon

Abundance of Methane Spews into Atmosphere of Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus

Ghent University Leads Research and Training Program on Quantum Dots

Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Image of Mid-Level Solar Flare

Rare Rare ‘Quantum Jitters’ Appear to Tune Frequency of Spontaneous Mutations"Quantum Jitters" May Have Far-Reaching Consequences

Hydrothermal Activity May Be Taking Place Within Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

Researchers Demonstrate Coulomb Crystallization of Highly-Charged Ions for the First Time

New Classification of Charge Density Waves Based Upon Their Nature

High School Students Participate in International Particle Physics Masterclass at UC Riverside

Rice University Physicist Awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship

Giant Stars in Cluster NGC 6193 Provide Main Source of Illumination for the Rim Nebula

Crucial Step Towards Better Understanding of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Galactic Disk Contoured Into Several Concentric Ripples

Researchers Spot Black Hole That Grew to Gargantuan Size

Astronomers Identify Nine New Dwarf Satellites Orbiting the Milky Way

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