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New Composite 360-Degree Portrait of Milky Way Galaxy

Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy's structure and contents.

24 Mar 2014

Joint Findings on Mass of Top Quark

Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both very powerful particle colliders on Earth. Scientists from the four experiments involved — ATLAS, CDF, CMS and DZero — announced their joint findings yesterday on the mass of the top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, at the Rencontres de Moriond international physics conference in Italy.

24 Mar 2014

Graphene Plays a Key Role in Superconductivity

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered a potential way to make graphene – a single layer of carbon atoms with great promise for future electronics – superconducting, a state in which it would carry electricity with 100 percent efficiency.

24 Mar 2014

New Method to Tune Unique Properties of Topological Insulators

An international team of scientists investigating the electronic properties of ultra-thin films of new materials – topological insulators (TIs) - has demonstrated a new method to tune their unique properties using strain.

24 Mar 2014

Advances in Developing Room-Temperature Superconductors

A team of physicists from Perimeter Institute, the University of Waterloo, and Harvard has reached a key milestone toward next-generation superconductors.

24 Mar 2014

Spitzer Telescope Delivers Star-Studded Panorama of Galaxy

Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

24 Mar 2014

Structure of Highly Energized Dangerous Electrons Discovered in Earth's Inner Radiation Belt

An NJIT physicist is a collaborator in the discovery of a new structure in Earth's inner radiation belt -- a zebra-striped structure of highly energized electrons that could endanger humans in space and also damage low-earth navigation and communication satellites.

21 Mar 2014

SLAC and Stanford Scientists Contribute to Discovery of Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation

Two scientists at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory made key contributions to the discovery of the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation – the rapid expansion of the infant universe in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

21 Mar 2014

Next Director for Chandra X-ray Center Selected After Extensive Search

Professor Charles Alcock, Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, announces that after an extensive search, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), in consultation with NASA, has selected Dr. Belinda Wilkes as the next director of the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC). She will assume the directorship on April 20, 2014.

21 Mar 2014

Daylight Solutions Introduces Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, today announced the launch of the world’s first commercially available laser-based infrared microscopy platform.

21 Mar 2014

Quantum Chaos Observed for Ultracold Atomic Collisions

At sub-micro-kelvin temperatures atoms or molecules move so slowly that it is better to think of them as spread-out, wavelike things a micron or more across, many times larger than any putative bond length (typically sub-nanometer in size) that would characterize bound molecules.

21 Mar 2014

First Joint Result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

21 Mar 2014

Renowed JHU Scientist to Become TRIUMF’s Next Director

After a seven month, highly competitive, international search for TRIUMF’s next director, the laboratory’s Board of Management announced today that Dr. Jonathan Bagger, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Vice Provost, and former Interim Provost at the Johns Hopkins University, will join TRIUMF this summer.

20 Mar 2014

Science for Peace to be Celebrated at CERN

CERN is celebrating 60 years of science for peace in 2014, with events at the Organization’s Geneva laboratory and in its Members States. Festivities will focus on two key events. The first is on 1 July at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, where the Organization’s 12 founding members established the CERN Convention on 1 July 1953.

20 Mar 2014

Researchers Detect Clear Imprint of Gravitational Waves in Cosmic Microwave Background

Right after its birth in the Big Bang, the infant universe threw the mother of all tantrums.

20 Mar 2014

Quantum Science News

New Composite 360-Degree Portrait of Milky Way Galaxy

Joint Findings on Mass of Top Quark

Graphene Plays a Key Role in Superconductivity

New Method to Tune Unique Properties of Topological Insulators

Advances in Developing Room-Temperature Superconductors

Spitzer Telescope Delivers Star-Studded Panorama of Galaxy

Structure of Highly Energized Dangerous Electrons Discovered in Earth's Inner Radiation Belt

SLAC and Stanford Scientists Contribute to Discovery of Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation

Next Director for Chandra X-ray Center Selected After Extensive Search

Daylight Solutions Introduces Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

Quantum Chaos Observed for Ultracold Atomic Collisions

First Joint Result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Renowed JHU Scientist to Become TRIUMF’s Next Director

Science for Peace to be Celebrated at CERN

Researchers Detect Clear Imprint of Gravitational Waves in Cosmic Microwave Background

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