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UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory Celebrates 75th Anniversary

A yearlong celebration is underway to celebrate the 75th anniversary of The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory. Located in West Texas near Fort Davis, the observatory was dedicated May 5, 1939, and has supported some of the most important astronomical discoveries of recent decades about everything from extrasolar planets to exotic stars to black holes.

10 Oct 2013

Penn's ATLAS Team Celebrates Contributions to Higgs Discovery

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass.

10 Oct 2013

Planets with Short Orbital Periods Nearly Skim Host Stars’ Surface

A new planet-hunting survey has revealed planetary candidates with orbital periods as short as four hours and so close to their host stars that they are nearly skimming the stellar surface. If confirmed, these candidates would be among the closest planets to their stars discovered so far.

9 Oct 2013

Scientist Successfully Synthesize Computer-Designed Superconductor

A Binghamton University scientist and his international colleagues report this week on the successful synthesis of the first superconductor designed entirely on the computer. Their findings were published in Physical Review Letters, the leading journal in the field.

9 Oct 2013

Award of Nobel Prize in Physics a Triumph for Elementary Particle Physics Research

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 has been awarded to physicists François Englert (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Peter W. Higgs (University of Edinburgh) “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider", at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.

9 Oct 2013

Light Waves to Accelerate Charged Particles Hold Promise for Compact Particle Accelerators

Modern particle accelerators measure up to several kilometres in size and cost billions of euros. But thanks to a new method they could shrink to less than 10 metres and cost 10 times less in future. To this end, physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching accelerated electrons directly using a light wave.

9 Oct 2013

Scientists Discover Evidence of a Comet Striking Earth

The first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, raining down a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path, has been discovered by a team of South African scientists and international collaborators, and will be presented at a public lecture on Thursday.

9 Oct 2013

Study of Energy Travel through Diamonds Helps Advance Quantum Computing Applications

Using ultra-fast laser pulses, a team of researchers led by UA assistant professor Vanessa Huxter has made the first detailed observation of how energy travels through diamonds containing nitrogen-vacancy centers – promising candidates for a variety of technological advances such as quantum computing.

9 Oct 2013

UMD Scientists Congratulate Winners of Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 to François Englert and Peter Higgs to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which scientists say gives mass to subatomic and atomic particles, thus making possible the universe and everything in it.

9 Oct 2013

New Research Questions Precious Nature of Diamond Planet

An alien world reported to be the first known planet to consist largely of diamond appears less likely to be of such precious nature, according to a new analysis led by UA graduate student Johanna Teske.

9 Oct 2013

Bristol Praises Higgs Boson Discoverers on Nobel Prize in Physics

Eminent scientist Professor Peter Higgs, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists and the man after whom the Higgs boson is named, has been awarded jointly with Professor Francois Englert the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013.

9 Oct 2013

Higgs Boson Achievement Deserves the Nobel Prize, says UO Particle Physicist

The theoretical work of Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, honored today by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, "is an amazing intellectual achievement," says University of Oregon particle physicist James Brau.

9 Oct 2013

Northwestern Physicists Applaud Nobel Prize in Physics for Higgs Discovery

Northwestern University physicists applauded today’s news that the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to theorists Peter W. Higgs and Francois Englert for the “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.”

9 Oct 2013

Cold Primordial Hydrogen Streams Fuel Distant Star-Forming Galaxy

Astronomers have detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fuelling a distant star-forming galaxy in the early Universe. Profuse flows of gas onto galaxies are believed to be crucial for explaining an era 10 billion years ago, when galaxies were copiously forming stars.

8 Oct 2013

French Physicist Alain Aspect Named Recipient of Niels Bohr Gold Medal

The prominent French physicist Alain Aspect received the Niels Bohr Gold Medal today. The medal will be presented at an event at the Honorary Residence at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen to be attended by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and His Royal Highness Prince Henrik.

8 Oct 2013

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UT Austin’s McDonald Observatory Celebrates 75th Anniversary

Penn's ATLAS Team Celebrates Contributions to Higgs Discovery

Planets with Short Orbital Periods Nearly Skim Host Stars’ Surface

Scientist Successfully Synthesize Computer-Designed Superconductor

Award of Nobel Prize in Physics a Triumph for Elementary Particle Physics Research

Light Waves to Accelerate Charged Particles Hold Promise for Compact Particle Accelerators

Scientists Discover Evidence of a Comet Striking Earth

Study of Energy Travel through Diamonds Helps Advance Quantum Computing Applications

UMD Scientists Congratulate Winners of Nobel Prize in Physics

New Research Questions Precious Nature of Diamond Planet

Bristol Praises Higgs Boson Discoverers on Nobel Prize in Physics

Higgs Boson Achievement Deserves the Nobel Prize, says UO Particle Physicist

Northwestern Physicists Applaud Nobel Prize in Physics for Higgs Discovery

Cold Primordial Hydrogen Streams Fuel Distant Star-Forming Galaxy

French Physicist Alain Aspect Named Recipient of Niels Bohr Gold Medal

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