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Microwave Undulator Built at SLAC Produces Shorter Wavelengths of Light

SLAC scientists have found a new way to produce bright pulses of light from accelerated electrons that could shrink "light source" technology used around the world since the 1970s to examine details of atoms and chemical reactions.

9 Jun 2014

First CERN Beam Line for Schools Competition Announced

CERN today announced the winners of its first beam line for schools competition. Following almost 300 submissions from school groups around the world, two teams have been selected to come to CERN to carry out their own experiments at a CERN beam line. The winners are the “Odysseus' Comrades” team from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and the “Dominicuscollege” team from Dominicus College in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

9 Jun 2014

NWO Honors Experimental Physicist with Spinoza Prize

Experimental physicist Dirk Bouwmeester, archaeologist Corinne Hofman, environmental technologist Mark van Loosdrecht and migratory bird ecologist Theunis Piersma have received the NWO Spinoza Prize 2014 from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. This was announced today by Jos Engelen, chair of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

9 Jun 2014

Forecast Report on Global Quantum Dot Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Quantum Dot (QD) Market - Global Analysis, Growth, Trends, Opportunities, Size, Share and Forecast through 2020" report to their offering.

9 Jun 2014

Zero Chance of Impact from Newfound Asteroid

A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon.

9 Jun 2014

Researchers Develop Polariton Laser Fueled by Electrical Current

With precarious particles called polaritons that straddle the worlds of light and matter, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a new, practical and potentially more efficient way to make a coherent laser-like beam.

6 Jun 2014

Spacetime Can Become Turbulent

Fasten your seatbelts – gravity is about to get bumpy.

6 Jun 2014

No Evidence Found for Existence of Majorana Neutrinos

The Majorana nature of neutrinos and the neutrinoless double-beta decay
Neutrinos are tiny, neutral elementary particles that, contrary to the standard model of physics, have been proven to have mass. One possible explanation for this mass could be that neutrinos are their own antiparticles, so-called Majorana particles.

6 Jun 2014

Novel Method Utilizes Quantum Mechanical Vibrations for High Precision Measurements

At TU Vienna, a new method was developed to utilize quantum mechanical vibrations for high precision measurements; The well-known concept of the Ramsey interferometer is applied to a complex multi particle system consisting of hundreds of atoms

6 Jun 2014

Rare, Intense Gamma-Ray Burst Travels for 12.1 Billion Years Before Reaching the Earth

Known as a gamma-ray burst, the rare, intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang

6 Jun 2014

Scientists Detect First of Thorne-Zytkow Objects

In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a "theoretical" class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna Zytkow. Thorne-Zytkow objects (TZOs) are hybrids of red supergiant and neutron stars that superficially resemble normal red supergiants, such as Betelguese in the constellation Orion. They differ, however, in their distinct chemical signatures that result from unique activity in their stellar interiors.

5 Jun 2014

Spitzer Space Telescope Reveals Rare Example of Type Ia Supernova Explosion

Supernovas are often thought of as the tremendous explosions that mark the ends of massive stars' lives. While this is true, not all supernovas occur in this fashion. A common supernova class, called Type Ia, involves the detonation of white dwarfs -- small, dense stars that are already dead.

5 Jun 2014

New Discovery May Help Develop Classification Scheme for Quantum Criticality

Quantum criticality, the strange electronic state that may be intimately related to high-temperature superconductivity, is notoriously difficult to study. But a new discovery of “quantum critical points” could allow physicists to develop a classification scheme for quantum criticality — the first step toward a broader explanation.

5 Jun 2014

New Technique in Detecting Single Atoms in Optical Lattices Wins Otto Hahn Medal 2013

For his excellent doctoral thesis, the young physicist Manuel Endres has been awarded with the Otto Hahn Medal 2013. Since 1978 the Max Planck Society presents this honour annually to junior scientists for groundbreaking scientific achievements connected to their doctoral thesis. The award is intended to encourage highly talented people to decide for a career in fundamental research.

5 Jun 2014