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Rice University Theoretical Physicist Wins NSF CAREER Award and RCSA Cottrell Scholar Award

“Emergent” is a key concept in the work of Rice University theoretical physicist Andriy Nevidomskyy, and thanks to two prestigious new awards, it is also an apt description of his work.

21 Aug 2014

Quantum Materials Acquires Quantum Dot Manufacturing-Related Patents from Bayer

Quantum Materials Corporation today announced the purchase of five diverse sets of patent families from Bayer Technology Services GmbH, the global technological backbone and major innovation driver for Bayer AG of Leverkusen, Germany.

21 Aug 2014

Chemists Successfully Measure Vibrational Motion of a Single Molecule with Femtosecond Resolution

For the first time, chemists have succeeded in measuring vibrational motion of a single molecule with a femtosecond time resolution. The study reveals how vibration of a single molecule differs from the behaviour of larger molecular groups.

21 Aug 2014

ESO’s Wide Field Imager Captures Dramatic Star Formation Regions in the Southern Milky Way

This image, captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. The first is of these, on the left, is dominated by the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20 000 light-years away, in the Carina–Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. The second object, on the right, is a collection of glowing gas clouds known as NGC 3576 that lies only about half as far from Earth.

21 Aug 2014

Novel Technology to Study Atomic Vibration in Small Particles

Physicists at the University of York, working with researchers at the University of Birmingham and Genoa, have developed new technology to study atomic vibration in small particles, revealing a more accurate picture of the structure of atomic clusters where surface atoms vibrate more intensively than internal atoms.

20 Aug 2014

Large Hypatia Catalog Devised for Stellar Compositions

An Arizona State University alumna has devised the largest catalog ever produced for stellar compositions. Called the Hypatia Catalog, after one of the first female astronomers who lived ~350 AD in Alexandria, the work is critical to understanding the properties of stars, how they form, and possible connections with orbiting planets. And what she found from her work is that the compositions of nearby stars aren't as uniform as once thought.

20 Aug 2014

Winner of European Astronomy Journalism Prize to Travel to Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array

European astronomy journalists can win a trip to the ESO telescope facilities in Chile with the launch of the European Astronomy Journalism Prize 2014.

20 Aug 2014

Queen’s University Astrophysics Research Centre and NASA Partner to Investigate ‘Solar Flares’

A major new collaboration between the Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC) at Queen’s University Belfast and American space agency NASA is set to investigate ‘solar flares’ and their potential to cause disruption here on Earth.

20 Aug 2014

Strange Baryons Produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions

New supercomputing calculations provide the first evidence that particles predicted by the theory of quark-gluon interactions but never before observed are being produced in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a facility that is dedicated to studying nuclear physics.

20 Aug 2014

Quantum State Can Turn About a Point Like a Ballerina

When a ballerina pirouettes, they balance on the very tip of the toes of one foot. This allows them to spin freely.

20 Aug 2014

New ‘Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory’ Survey Launched

A new survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) has been launched that will greatly expand our understanding of galaxies, including the Milky Way, by charting the internal structure and composition of an unprecedented sample of 10,000 galaxies.

19 Aug 2014

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Rice University Theoretical Physicist Wins NSF CAREER Award and RCSA Cottrell Scholar Award

Quantum Materials Acquires Quantum Dot Manufacturing-Related Patents from Bayer

Chemists Successfully Measure Vibrational Motion of a Single Molecule with Femtosecond Resolution

ESO’s Wide Field Imager Captures Dramatic Star Formation Regions in the Southern Milky Way

Novel Technology to Study Atomic Vibration in Small Particles

Large Hypatia Catalog Devised for Stellar Compositions

Winner of European Astronomy Journalism Prize to Travel to Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array

Queen’s University Astrophysics Research Centre and NASA Partner to Investigate ‘Solar Flares’

Strange Baryons Produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Quantum State Can Turn About a Point Like a Ballerina

New ‘Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory’ Survey Launched

Dark Energy Survey Begins Second Year

Rhythmic Pulsations from Rare Type of Midsize Black Hole Uncovered

New Research Improves Quantum Coherence Time Using Cavity Protection Effect

Astronomers Accurately Measure Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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