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New Technology Could Make Colder Objects in Deep Space More Visible

Too cool and faint, many objects in the universe are impossible to detect with visible light. Now a Northwestern University team has refined a new technology that could make these colder objects more visible, paving the way for enhanced exploration of deep space.

11 Jul 2014

Friction May be the Key to Survival for Distant Planets Traveling in Dangerous Orbits

As anybody who has started a campfire by rubbing sticks knows, friction generates heat. Now, computer modeling by NASA scientists shows that friction could be the key to survival for some distant Earth-sized planets traveling in dangerous orbits.

11 Jul 2014

Researchers Make Measurements of How Dust Around Supernova Absorbs Light

The origin of cosmic dust in galaxies is still a mystery [1]. Astronomers know that supernovae may be the primary source of dust, especially in the early Universe, but it is still unclear how and where dust grains condense and grow.

11 Jul 2014

Quasiparticle Excitations in Many-Body Quantum Systems Controlled in Trapped Ultracold Ions

Christian Roos' research team at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck has established a new experimental platform for investigating quantum phenomena: In a string of trapped ultracold ions they can precisely initialise, control and measure the states and properties of quasiparticle excitations in a many-body quantum system.

10 Jul 2014

NASA's MESSENGER Spacecraft Detects Solar Neutrons Created In Solar Flares

Understanding the sun from afar isn't easy. How do you figure out what powers solar flares – the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots – when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near-Earth's orbit?

10 Jul 2014

Controversial Signals not from 'Goldilocks Planets'

Mysteries about controversial signals coming from a dwarf star considered to be a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life now have been solved in research led by scientists at Penn State.

10 Jul 2014

New Textbook on Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics

Condensed matter physics, through the discoveries of graphene and topological insulators say, realizes in the laboratory many exotic and non-perturbative phenomena that were proposed during the 70's and 80's to probe the physics beyond the standard model of particle physics but have remained illusive to experimental high-energy physics. To appreciate this connection, it is indispensable to master some tools of quantum field theories.

10 Jul 2014

Mercury May be a Relic Left Behind by Collisions in the Early Solar System

Planet Mercury's unusual metal-rich composition has been a longstanding puzzle in planetary science. According to a study published online in Nature Geoscience July 6, Mercury and other unusually metal-rich objects in the solar system may be relics left behind by collisions in the early solar system that built the other planets.

10 Jul 2014

High-Resolution 3-D Model of Expanding Cloud Produced by Eta Carinae Binary System Eruption

In the middle of the 19th century, the massive binary system Eta Carinae underwent an eruption that ejected at least 10 times the sun's mass and made it the second-brightest star in the sky. Now, a team of astronomers has used extensive new observations to create the first high-resolution 3-D model of the expanding cloud produced by this outburst.

10 Jul 2014

Galaxy Running Out of Carbon Monoxide

Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it’s running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a ‘red and dead’ future.

9 Jul 2014

Missing Photons May be Coming From Some Exotic New Source

Something is amiss in the Universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget.

9 Jul 2014

Bristol Scientists Work on Upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider

Scientists from the Particle Physics Research Group at the University of Bristol are currently working on upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle accelerator and collider located at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, ahead of its restart in 2015.

9 Jul 2014

Hotspot for Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays Found in the Northern Sky

An observatory run by the University of Utah found a "hotspot" beneath the Big Dipper emitting a disproportionate number of the highest-energy cosmic rays. The discovery moves physics another step toward identifying the mysterious sources of the most energetic particles in the universe.

9 Jul 2014

Spatial Adiabatic Passage Transport Technique Filters Velocity of Ultra-Cold Neutral Atoms from a Ring Trap

New study provides proof of the validity of a filtering device for ultra-cold neutral atoms based on tunnelling

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 9 Jul 2014

Faintest, Smallest Galaxies in the Early Universe Make Significant Contributions to UV Light

Light from tiny galaxies over 13 billion years ago played a larger role than previously thought in creating the conditions in the universe as we know it today, a new study has found. Ultraviolet (UV) light from stars in these faint dwarf galaxies helped strip interstellar hydrogen of electrons in a process called reionization.

9 Jul 2014

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New Technology Could Make Colder Objects in Deep Space More Visible

Friction May be the Key to Survival for Distant Planets Traveling in Dangerous Orbits

Researchers Make Measurements of How Dust Around Supernova Absorbs Light

Quasiparticle Excitations in Many-Body Quantum Systems Controlled in Trapped Ultracold Ions

NASA's MESSENGER Spacecraft Detects Solar Neutrons Created In Solar Flares

Controversial Signals not from 'Goldilocks Planets'

New Textbook on Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics

Mercury May be a Relic Left Behind by Collisions in the Early Solar System

High-Resolution 3-D Model of Expanding Cloud Produced by Eta Carinae Binary System Eruption

Galaxy Running Out of Carbon Monoxide

Missing Photons May be Coming From Some Exotic New Source

Bristol Scientists Work on Upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider

Hotspot for Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays Found in the Northern Sky

Spatial Adiabatic Passage Transport Technique Filters Velocity of Ultra-Cold Neutral Atoms from a Ring Trap

Faintest, Smallest Galaxies in the Early Universe Make Significant Contributions to UV Light

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