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New Kinds of Galileon-Like Theories Can Be Created in Non-Relativistic Systems

There has been much recent interest, especially among cosmologists, in theories known as galileons. Galileons are an interesting and novel, though still hypothetical, class of effective scalar fields which are extremely universal and have attracted much recent attention. They arise generically in describing the short distance behavior of the new degrees of freedom introduced during the process of modifying gravity, and in describing the dynamics of extra dimensional brane worlds.

18 Aug 2014

Scientists Rule Out One Possible Cause of Closest Supernova

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory offer a glimpse into the environment of a star before it exploded earlier this year, and insight into what triggered one of the closest supernovas witnessed in decades.

18 Aug 2014

Novel Technique to Record Quantum Mechanical Behavior of an Electron Within a Nanoscale Defect

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Konstanz, Germany, have developed a technique to record the quantum mechanical behavior of an individual electron contained within a nanoscale defect in diamond. Their technique uses ultrafast pulses of laser light both to control the defect’s entire quantum state and observe how that single electron state changes over time.

18 Aug 2014

Rosetta Captures Diversity of Surface Structures on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's Nucleus

A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows the diversity of surface structures on the comet's nucleus. It was taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on August 7, 2014. At the time, the spacecraft was 65 miles (104 kilometers) away from the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer) nucleus.

18 Aug 2014

Researchers at Berkeley Lab Analyze Seven Grains of Possible Interstellar Dust

The first analysis of space dust collected by a special collector onboard NASA's Stardust mission and sent back to Earth for study in 2006 suggests the tiny specks, which likely originated from beyond our solar system, are more complex in composition and structure than previously imagined.

18 Aug 2014

Astronomers Produce New Maps of Material Located Between the Stars

An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer to cracking a stardust puzzle that has vexed them for nearly a century.

18 Aug 2014

Kansas State University’s Lithium-Based Neutron Detector Wins 2014 R&D 100 Award

Kansas State University engineers have developed a lithium-based neutron detector that is being recognized as one of the year's Top 100 newly developed technologies.

14 Aug 2014

Methane Clouds Move Across Northern Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn's Moon

NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's moon Titan.

13 Aug 2014

NuSTAR Captures Images of X-ray Light Streaming from Regions Near Supermassive Black Hole

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.

13 Aug 2014

Neutrinos May Provide Clues About Nuclear Proliferation

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and even in the fictional world of CBS' “The Big Bang Theory” look to subatomic particles called neutrinos to answer the big questions about the universe.

13 Aug 2014

Researchers in Quantum Engineering Explore both Basic and Applied Research

It can be difficult to distinguish between basic and applied research in the nascent field of quantum engineering. One person’s exploration of quantum systems like atoms and electrons yields another’s building block for quantum computers, and vice versa.

13 Aug 2014

Rice Physicist Receives $1.5 Million Moore Foundation Grant to Study Quantum Materials

Thanks to a $1.5 million innovation award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Rice University physicist Emilia Morosan is embarking on a five-year quest to cook up a few unique compounds that have never been synthesized or explored.

13 Aug 2014

ALMA Captures 3D Images of Ghostly Atmospheres Surrounding Comets

An international team of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made incredible 3D images of the ghostly atmospheres surrounding comets ISON and Lemmon. These new observations provided important insights into how and where comets forge new chemicals, including intriguing organic compounds.

13 Aug 2014

New Solution for How Ancient Quasars Grew

A new model shows how early black holes could have grown to over a billion solar masses

12 Aug 2014

Hydrogen-Treated Fibers May Help Reduce Errors in Quantum Computing

To make a better optical fiber for transmitting laser beams, the first idea that comes to mind is probably not a nice long hydrogen bath.

12 Aug 2014

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New Kinds of Galileon-Like Theories Can Be Created in Non-Relativistic Systems

Scientists Rule Out One Possible Cause of Closest Supernova

Novel Technique to Record Quantum Mechanical Behavior of an Electron Within a Nanoscale Defect

Rosetta Captures Diversity of Surface Structures on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's Nucleus

Researchers at Berkeley Lab Analyze Seven Grains of Possible Interstellar Dust

Astronomers Produce New Maps of Material Located Between the Stars

Kansas State University’s Lithium-Based Neutron Detector Wins 2014 R&D 100 Award

Methane Clouds Move Across Northern Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn's Moon

NuSTAR Captures Images of X-ray Light Streaming from Regions Near Supermassive Black Hole

Neutrinos May Provide Clues About Nuclear Proliferation

Researchers in Quantum Engineering Explore both Basic and Applied Research

Rice Physicist Receives $1.5 Million Moore Foundation Grant to Study Quantum Materials

ALMA Captures 3D Images of Ghostly Atmospheres Surrounding Comets

New Solution for How Ancient Quasars Grew

Hydrogen-Treated Fibers May Help Reduce Errors in Quantum Computing

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