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Bonn Physicists Show That Caesium Atoms Can Indeed Take Two Paths at the Same Time

Can a penalty kick simultaneously score a goal and miss? For very small objects, at least, this is possible: according to the predictions of quantum mechanics, microscopic objects can take different paths at the same time.

22 Jan 2015

Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer Completes First Study of Eta Corvi Dusty Star System

The NASA-funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the "habitable zone" around a star, opening a new door to finding planets like Earth. Dust is a natural byproduct of the planet-formation process, but too much of it can block our view of planets.

22 Jan 2015

Subatomic Particles Could be Induced to Speed up by Themselves

Some physical principles have been considered immutable since the time of Isaac Newton: Light always travels in straight lines. No physical object can change its speed unless some outside force acts on it.

22 Jan 2015

High Magnetization Sets the Stage for Formation of Massive Stars

Magnetic fields in massive dark clouds are strong enough to support the regions against collapse due to their own gravity. A study lead by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has now shown for the first time that high magnetization sets the stage for the formation of stars much more massive than the sun. This was demonstrated in observations of polarized dust emission from two of the most massive clouds in our Milky Way, the “Brick” and “Snake”.

21 Jan 2015

CQT Announces Dates for 13th International Conference on Quantum Computing, Measurement and Communication

The Centre for Quantum Technologies is pleased to announce the dates for the 13th International Conference on Quantum Computing, Measurement and Communication: the conference will be held 4-8 July 2016 on the University Town campus of the National University of Singapore. The conference website is now live at qcmc.quantumlah.org.

21 Jan 2015

Heaviest Elements May Not Be Formed in Standard Supernovae

Scientists plumbing the depths of the ocean have made a surprise finding that could change the way we understand supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system.

21 Jan 2015

Plasmonic Flat-Lens BES Helps Focus Light Into Nanoscale Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodetector

High-sensitivity photodetection is at the heart of many optoelectronic applications, including spectroscopy, imaging, surveillance, remote sensing and medical diagnostics. Achieving the highest possible sensitivity for a given photodetector technology requires the development of ultra-small-footprint detectors, as the noise sources scale with the volume of the semiconductor. This must be accomplished without sacrificing neither the optically active area of the detector nor its responsivity.

21 Jan 2015

UBC Physicists Detect 'Charge Ordering' in Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

University of British Columbia physicists have detected 'charge ordering' in electron-doped cuprate superconductors for the first time, according to research published last week in Science.

20 Jan 2015

Scientists Join Forces to Put Together Biggest Map of the Universe

Scientists from around the world have joined forces to lay the foundations for an experiment of truly astronomical proportions: putting together the biggest map of the Universe ever made.

20 Jan 2015

Astronomers Observe 'Fast Radio Burst’ as it Happens

A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening - a 'fast radio burst'. The eruption is described as an extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from an unknown source in the universe. The results have been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

20 Jan 2015

Principal Investigator of NuSTAR Awarded 2015 Rossi Prize in High-Energy Astrophysics

The 2015 Rossi Prize has been awarded to Fiona Harrison, a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, for her "groundbreaking work on supernova remnants, neutron stars and black holes enabled by NuSTAR." NuSTAR is NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array mission. The award, granted by the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD), is the top prize in high-energy astrophysics.

19 Jan 2015

Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Honored with 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced today that Johns Hopkins University's Marc Kamionkowski is a winner of the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, one of the top prizes in the field which is awarded annually to outstanding mid-career scientists.

19 Jan 2015

SLAC Staff Physicist Honored as Fellow of American Physical Society

SLAC staff physicist Peter Rowson has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, the largest physics association in the world. APS confers this distinction on a small percentage of the society’s membership; it is especially significant because it is a peer-nominated honor.

19 Jan 2015

New Study on Anthropic Principle in Astrophysics and Particle Physics

For nearly half a century, theoretical physicists have made a series of discoveries that certain constants in fundamental physics seem extraordinarily fine-tuned to allow for the emergence of a life-enabling universe.

19 Jan 2015

X-ray Image Shows Merger of Small, Compact Cluster with Large, Less Dense System

The catalogues of celestial objects contain a galaxy cluster called "Abell 4067". Recent observations with the XMM-Newton space observatory, however, reveal evidence that this object actually constitutes of the merger of two clusters. The smaller system appears to be losing the greater part of its gas.

19 Jan 2015

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Bonn Physicists Show That Caesium Atoms Can Indeed Take Two Paths at the Same Time

Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer Completes First Study of Eta Corvi Dusty Star System

Subatomic Particles Could be Induced to Speed up by Themselves

High Magnetization Sets the Stage for Formation of Massive Stars

CQT Announces Dates for 13th International Conference on Quantum Computing, Measurement and Communication

Heaviest Elements May Not Be Formed in Standard Supernovae

Plasmonic Flat-Lens BES Helps Focus Light Into Nanoscale Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodetector

UBC Physicists Detect 'Charge Ordering' in Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

Scientists Join Forces to Put Together Biggest Map of the Universe

Astronomers Observe 'Fast Radio Burst’ as it Happens

Principal Investigator of NuSTAR Awarded 2015 Rossi Prize in High-Energy Astrophysics

Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Honored with 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize

SLAC Staff Physicist Honored as Fellow of American Physical Society

New Study on Anthropic Principle in Astrophysics and Particle Physics

X-ray Image Shows Merger of Small, Compact Cluster with Large, Less Dense System

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