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New X-ray Polarimeter to Study Black Holes and Neutron Stars

What are the high-energy processes in the Universe that occur in the immediate vicinity of a black hole? To study a question like this one cannot simply utilize a high-resolution telescope. Even with the best available telescopes, it is difficult or even impossible to directly resolve the regions of interest and the energies emitted from such objects extend to much higher energies, e.g. X-rays.

30 Jan 2015

Scientists Review Recent Discoveries in Iron-Based High Transition Temperature Superconductors

Superconductivity is a remarkable macroscopic quantum phenomenon, discovered just over a century ago. As temperature decreases to below a critical value, the electric resistance of a superconductor vanishes and the magnetic field is repelled. Superconductors have many applications, and can be used to transport electricity without loss of energy. Conventional superconductivity is explained by the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory, posited more than five decades ago.

29 Jan 2015

Researchers Collaborate to Create New Materials with Quantum Effects

Collaboration in a project to create a catalog of different materials and combining them to obtain a metamaterial (artificial material) with the desired characteristics.

29 Jan 2015

Yellowballs May be a Mix of Compact Star-Forming Regions

AMES, Iowa - Some four years ago, a citizen scientist helping the Milky Way Project study Spitzer Space Telescope images for the tell-tale bubble patterns of star formation noticed something else.

29 Jan 2015

Astronomers Discover Ancient Sun-Like Star with Orbiting Planets

A Sun-like star with orbiting planets, dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy, has been discovered by an international team of astronomers.

29 Jan 2015

Ames Lab Professor Bestowed Humboldt Research Award

As a physicist, Paul Canfield sometimes goes “hunting for the phoenix” – a mythical bird with a life that spans centuries, of which at the end it ignites and burns to ashes so a new, young phoenix will arise.

29 Jan 2015

NASA’s Dawn Returns Sharpest Images Ever of Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned the sharpest images ever seen of the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres on Jan. 25, and represent a new milestone for a spacecraft that soon will become the first human-made probe to visit a dwarf planet.

29 Jan 2015

Kagome Nanostructure Allows Undistorted Transmission of Extremely Short Infrared Laser Pulses

In a marathon, everyone starts at roughly the same place at roughly the same time. But the faster runners will gradually increase their lead, and in the end, the distribution of runners on the street will be very broad. Something similar happens to a pulse of light sent through a medium.

28 Jan 2015

Astronomers May Have Witnessed a Giant Black Hole Tear a Star Apart

A five-year analysis of an event captured by a tiny telescope at McDonald Observatory and followed up by telescopes on the ground and in space has led astronomers to believe they witnessed a giant black hole tear apart a star. The work is published this month in The Astrophysical Journal.

28 Jan 2015

Scientists Directly Image Interaction of Electrons within a Single Molecule

Understanding this kind of electronic effects in organic molecules is crucial for their use in optoelectronic applications, for example in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and solar cells.

28 Jan 2015

European Commission Ruling Confirms Benefits of QD Vision’s Quantum Dot Technology for the Environment

QD Vision, Inc., the leading manufacturer of quantum dot solutions for display products, announced that the European Commission has granted an exemption to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS 2) Directive for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE). The ruling confirms that QD Vision’s Color IQ™ quantum dot technology is beneficial for the environment.

28 Jan 2015

Springfield Physicist Wins William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson Prize

Will Bergan always wanted to be a scientist. One day when he was in middle school, he decided he should begin the weighty deliberations necessary for choosing a particular scientific discipline.

28 Jan 2015

Fermi Bubble Studies May Offer Insight into Galaxy’s History and Dark Matter

Compared to other galaxies, the Milky Way is a peaceful place. But it hasn't always been so sleepy. In 2010, a team of scientists working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a pair of "Fermi bubbles" extending tens of thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way's disk.

28 Jan 2015

HESS Discovers Most Luminous High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

Once again, the gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. has demonstrated its detecting capabilities: in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the High Energy Stereoscopic System discovered most luminous high-energy gamma-ray sources.

28 Jan 2015

InAs/GaSb Type II Superlattice Demonstrates MWIR Images While Operating at High Temperatures

From aerial surveillance to cancer detection, mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) radiation has a wide range of applications. And as the uses for high-sensitivity, high-resolution imaging continue to expand, MWIR sources are becoming more attractive.

28 Jan 2015

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New X-ray Polarimeter to Study Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Scientists Review Recent Discoveries in Iron-Based High Transition Temperature Superconductors

Researchers Collaborate to Create New Materials with Quantum Effects

Yellowballs May be a Mix of Compact Star-Forming Regions

Astronomers Discover Ancient Sun-Like Star with Orbiting Planets

Ames Lab Professor Bestowed Humboldt Research Award

NASA’s Dawn Returns Sharpest Images Ever of Dwarf Planet Ceres

Kagome Nanostructure Allows Undistorted Transmission of Extremely Short Infrared Laser Pulses

Astronomers May Have Witnessed a Giant Black Hole Tear a Star Apart

Scientists Directly Image Interaction of Electrons within a Single Molecule

European Commission Ruling Confirms Benefits of QD Vision’s Quantum Dot Technology for the Environment

Springfield Physicist Wins William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson Prize

Fermi Bubble Studies May Offer Insight into Galaxy’s History and Dark Matter

HESS Discovers Most Luminous High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

InAs/GaSb Type II Superlattice Demonstrates MWIR Images While Operating at High Temperatures

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