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Russian Government Megagrant for Establishment of New Mathematics Laboratory

Vladimir Touraev, a Russian high school math teacher in the mid-1970s who 30 years later would become the first named professor in the Indiana University Department of Mathematics, has been awarded over $2.7 million to establish a new mathematics laboratory in Russia.

21 Feb 2014

Roguish Runaway Stars Shock the Galaxy and Create Arcs

Roguish runaway stars can have a big impact on their surroundings as they plunge through the Milky Way galaxy. Their high-speed encounters shock the galaxy, creating arcs, as seen in this newly released image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

21 Feb 2014

First Map of Titanium Thrown Out From Cas A Supernova Remnant

Astronomers for the first time have peered into the heart of an exploding star in the final minutes of its existence.

21 Feb 2014

ESO Releases New Image of Brilliant Messier 7 Star Cluster

Messier 7, also known as NGC 6475, is a brilliant cluster of about 100 stars located some 800 light-years from Earth. In this new picture from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope it stands out against a very rich background of hundreds of thousands of fainter stars, in the direction of the centre of the Milky Way.

20 Feb 2014

Quantum Materials Options Thick-Shell 'Giant' Quantum Dot Patented Technology

Quantum Materials Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) today announce Quantum Materials optioning Thick-Shell 'Giant' Quantum Dot patented technology with the potential of 10 to 100-fold improvement in solid-state brightness over conventional nanocrystal quantum dots (QD). High brightness leads to efficient use of materials and increased performance in electronic displays and solid state (LED) lighting.

20 Feb 2014

Einstein Proposed a Cosmic Model in Which the Universe Expands and then Contracts

A paper published in EPJ H provides the first English translation and an analysis of one of Albert Einstein's little-known papers, "On the cosmological problem of the general theory of relativity." Published in 1931, it features a forgotten model of the universe, while refuting Einstein's own earlier static model of 1917.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 20 Feb 2014

Researchers Find a Way to Control Quantum System of a Diamond

Computers do not necessarily have to perform error-free calculations in order to provide perfect results – they only need to correct their errors in a reliable way. And this will become even more important in the future, when it is hoped that quantum computers will solve some tasks several times faster than conventional PCs with computing processes that are very efficient but also prone to disturbances.

From Max Planck Research Group Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics 20 Feb 2014

Huge Clouds of Gas Orbit Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers see huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. Once thought to be a relatively uniform, fog-like ring, the accreting matter instead forms clumps dense enough to intermittently dim the intense radiation blazing forth as these enormous objects condense and consume matter, they report in a paper to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, available online now.

20 Feb 2014

Researchers Peer into Dark Interiors of Supernova Cassiopeia A

A new and powerful satellite has given researchers a way to see into the dark interiors of supernovae. Their observations of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A shed more light on the mechanics of these explosions.

20 Feb 2014

Asteroids Pound Radio Wave-Emitting Tiny Star

Scientists using CSIRO's Parkes telescope and another telescope in South Africa have found evidence that a tiny star called PSR J0738-4042 is being pounded by asteroids — large lumps of rock from space.

20 Feb 2014

Gas Clouds Dim X-ray Signals from Active Galaxies

Picture a single cloud large enough to span the solar system from the sun to beyond Pluto's orbit. Now imagine many such clouds orbiting in a vast ring at the heart of a distant galaxy, occasionally dimming the X-ray light produced by the galaxy's monster black hole.

20 Feb 2014

Astrophysicists Unravel How Stars Blow up in Supernova Explosions

For the first time, an international team of astrophysicists, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists, have unraveled how stars blow up in supernova explosions.

20 Feb 2014

Researchers Lay Groundwork for Understanding Role of Quantum Physics in Photosynthetic Processes

Biophotonic Solutions Inc. (BSI), the world leader in automated laser pulse compression, announces that its "MIIPS" laser pulse characterization, shaping, and compression technology was used in an advanced laser microscopy setup created by researchers at ICFO -- the Institute of Photonic Sciences -- in Barcelona, Spain, to study photosynthesis at the level of single molecules.

19 Feb 2014

New Approach for Fabricating Lateral Spin Valves Using Ion Beams

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have tested a new approach to fabricating spin valves. Using ion beams, the researchers have succeeded in structuring an iron aluminium alloy in such a way as to subdivide the material into individually magnetizable regions at the nanometer scale.

19 Feb 2014

Leeds Quantum Cascade Terahertz Laser Sets New World Record in Output Power

A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds team has exceeded a 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade terahertz laser.

19 Feb 2014

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Russian Government Megagrant for Establishment of New Mathematics Laboratory

Roguish Runaway Stars Shock the Galaxy and Create Arcs

First Map of Titanium Thrown Out From Cas A Supernova Remnant

ESO Releases New Image of Brilliant Messier 7 Star Cluster

Quantum Materials Options Thick-Shell 'Giant' Quantum Dot Patented Technology

Einstein Proposed a Cosmic Model in Which the Universe Expands and then Contracts

Researchers Find a Way to Control Quantum System of a Diamond

Huge Clouds of Gas Orbit Supermassive Black Holes

Researchers Peer into Dark Interiors of Supernova Cassiopeia A

Asteroids Pound Radio Wave-Emitting Tiny Star

Gas Clouds Dim X-ray Signals from Active Galaxies

Astrophysicists Unravel How Stars Blow up in Supernova Explosions

Researchers Lay Groundwork for Understanding Role of Quantum Physics in Photosynthetic Processes

New Approach for Fabricating Lateral Spin Valves Using Ion Beams

Leeds Quantum Cascade Terahertz Laser Sets New World Record in Output Power

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