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Physicists from Around the World Meet for ATLAS Supersymmetry Workshop

The Higgs boson is just the start. With the collision energy of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) about to increase from 8 to 13 TeV, the search for other, as-yet-unobserved particles will soon be on.

25 Sep 2014

Retro-Style Cockcroft-Walton Linear Accelerator Provides Proton Beams at PSI

The source of the proton beam at PSI is a retro-style Cockcroft-Walton linear accelerator. Since 1984 it has been the first acceleration stage for protons which are taken up to around 80 percent of the speed of light by two further ring accelerators.

24 Sep 2014

Dow to Construct Large-Scale, Cadmium-Free Quantum Dot Manufacturing Operation in South Korea

The Dow Chemical Company announced today it will commence construction of the world’s first, large-scale, cadmium-free quantum dot manufacturing operation at the Company’s Cheonan, South Korea site.

24 Sep 2014

Esteemed British Physicist Honored with ‘Mani Bhaumik Award’ for Consciousness Research

The effect of quantum wavefunction superposition is used to create software search parallelism in a newly issued US Patent 8,832,139 B2¹ to Panvia Future Technologies Inc., Palo Alto, California.

24 Sep 2014

Esteemed British Physicist Honored with ‘Mani Bhaumik Award’ for Consciousness Research

The first ‘Mani Bhaumik award’ for consciousness research was presented to Sir Roger Penrose at the 20th anniversary ‘Toward a Science of Consciousness’ conference in Tucson, Arizona.

24 Sep 2014

Princeton Researchers Win Awards as Part of Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative

Princeton University researchers Robert Cava, Loren Pfeiffer and Mansour Shayegan are among 12 scientists nationwide to be named Moore Materials Synthesis Investigators by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California.

24 Sep 2014

Effect of Contaminating Sources Cannot be Ruled Out in the BICEP2 Observation

Data from the ESA satellite measure contaminants in the BICEP2 observation

23 Sep 2014

Stars Can Absorb Gravitational Ripples

Scientists have shown how gravitational waves—invisible ripples in the fabric of space and time that propagate through the universe—might be "seen" by looking at the stars. The new model proposes that a star that oscillates at the same frequency as a gravitational wave will absorb energy from that wave and brighten, an overlooked prediction of Einstein's 1916 theory of general relativity.

23 Sep 2014

Gauss von Mises Distribution Improves Predictive Capabilities of Future Locations of Satellites, Debris

Space surveillance is inherently challenging when compared to other tracking environments due to various reasons, not least of which is the long time gap between surveillance updates. "Unlike the air and missile defense environments where objects are frequently observed, the space surveillance environment data is starved, with many objects going several orbital periods between observations," according to researcher Joshua Horwood.

23 Sep 2014

Sandia Labs’ Z Machine Produces Significant Output of Fusion Neutrons

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year.

23 Sep 2014

Novel Method Renders Excitons Immune to Minuscule Traps in Solar Cells

A major limitation in the performance of solar cells happens within the photovoltaic material itself: When photons strike the molecules of a solar cell, they transfer their energy, producing quasi-particles called excitons — an energized state of molecules. That energized state can hop from one molecule to the next until it's transferred to electrons in a wire, which can light up a bulb or turn a motor.

By David L. Chandler 23 Sep 2014

Physicists Successfully Teleport Quantum State of a Photon to a Crystal

Physicists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometres of optical fibre. The experiment, carried out in the laboratory of Professor Nicolas Gisin, constitutes a first, and simply pulverises the previous record of 6 kilometres achieved ten years ago by the same UNIGE team.

23 Sep 2014

New Insights into Mysterious Excess of Positrons in the Flux of Cosmic Rays

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration has today presented its latest results. These are based on the analysis of 41 billion particles detected with the space-based AMS detector aboard the International Space Station.

22 Sep 2014

Researchers Successfully Observe ‘Forbidden’ Infrared Spectrum of Charged Molecules

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have succeeded in observing the "forbidden" infrared spectrum of a charged molecule for the first time.

22 Sep 2014

Massive Galaxies Snack on Nearby Galaxies

Massive galaxies in the Universe have stopped making their own stars and are instead snacking on nearby galaxies, according to research by Australian scientists. Astronomers looked at more than 22,000 galaxies and found that while smaller galaxies were very efficient at creating stars from gas, the most massive galaxies were much less efficient at star formation, producing hardly any new stars themselves, and instead grew by eating other galaxies.

22 Sep 2014

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Physicists from Around the World Meet for ATLAS Supersymmetry Workshop

Retro-Style Cockcroft-Walton Linear Accelerator Provides Proton Beams at PSI

Dow to Construct Large-Scale, Cadmium-Free Quantum Dot Manufacturing Operation in South Korea

Esteemed British Physicist Honored with ‘Mani Bhaumik Award’ for Consciousness Research

Esteemed British Physicist Honored with ‘Mani Bhaumik Award’ for Consciousness Research

Princeton Researchers Win Awards as Part of Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative

Effect of Contaminating Sources Cannot be Ruled Out in the BICEP2 Observation

Stars Can Absorb Gravitational Ripples

Gauss von Mises Distribution Improves Predictive Capabilities of Future Locations of Satellites, Debris

Sandia Labs’ Z Machine Produces Significant Output of Fusion Neutrons

Novel Method Renders Excitons Immune to Minuscule Traps in Solar Cells

Physicists Successfully Teleport Quantum State of a Photon to a Crystal

New Insights into Mysterious Excess of Positrons in the Flux of Cosmic Rays

Researchers Successfully Observe ‘Forbidden’ Infrared Spectrum of Charged Molecules

Massive Galaxies Snack on Nearby Galaxies

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