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International Collaboration to Streamline Process to Make Particle Physics Public

Ever since CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, began its operations at the Large Hadron Collider in 2008, its researchers have pushed for their results to be publicly accessible. The field of high-energy experimental physics is a bit of an anomaly in the scientific arena. It’s a relatively small community—about 15,000 scientists globally—and one that is acutely dependent on collaboration and sharing (about half of those scientists are spread across just the four LHC experiments).

30 Jan 2014

Researchers Discover How Extreme Galaxies Formed

It has long puzzled scientists that there were enormously massive galaxies that were already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe, approx. 3 billion years after the Big Bang. Now new research from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, shows that these massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang. The results are published in the scientific journal, Astrophysical Journal.

30 Jan 2014

NASA Provides Opportunity to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases in the Microgravity Environment

NASA's Physical Science Research Program will fund seven proposals to conduct physics research using the agency's new microgravity laboratory, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in 2016.

30 Jan 2014

Researchers Create Synthetic Magnetic Monopoles

Nearly 85 years after pioneering theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicted the possibility of their existence, an international collaboration led by Amherst College Physics Professor David S. Hall ’91 and Aalto University (Finland) Academy Research Fellow Mikko Möttönen has created, identified and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles in Hall’s laboratory on the Amherst campus.

30 Jan 2014

Asteroid Belt Provides New Clues to Tumultuous Past of the Solar System

Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orbital paths unchanged since they formed.

30 Jan 2014

Stellar Nursery Brewing in the Trifid Nebula

A storm of stars is brewing in the Trifid nebula, as seen in this view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The stellar nursery, where baby stars are bursting into being, is the yellow-and-orange object dominating the picture. Yellow bars in the nebula appear to cut a cavity into three sections, hence the name Trifid nebula.

30 Jan 2014

ESO's Very Large Telescope Helps Create Weather Map of Brown Dwarf

ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun. The new results are being published in the 30 January 2014 issue of the journal Nature.

30 Jan 2014

New Map Charts Size, Composition, and Location of More Than 100,000 Asteroids

To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core, mantle, and crust.

30 Jan 2014

Quantum-Mechanical Effects May Help Exceed Theoretical Limit for Efficiency of Ideal Solar Cells

A new theoretical model developed by professors at the University of Houston (UH) and Université de Montréal may hold the key to methods for developing better materials for solar cells.

30 Jan 2014

CQT Announces Winners of Quantum Shorts 2013 Competition

Back in July 2013, CQT launched the Quantum Shorts 2013 competition with a call for flash fiction inspired by quantum physics. Half a year and over 500 entries later, we're ready to announce the winners.

29 Jan 2014

Potentially Harder Tests Needed for Quantifying Quantum Speedup

Texas A&M University physicist Helmut G. Katzgraber's research takes him to the crossroads of physics, computer science, quantum information theory and statistical mechanics. For more than a decade, he has been pushing the frontiers of computational physics to study hard optimization problems and disordered materials, applying his expertise to problems in the fascinating and fast-evolving field of quantum computing.

29 Jan 2014

New Ultra-Miniaturized Quantum Cascade Laser Products from Block Engineering

Block Engineering, the leader in Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) instrumentation, announced today the release of two ultra-miniaturized QCL products, the Mini-QCL (TM) Module and the new LaserTune (TM) Infrared Source. The Mini-QCL is a widely-tunable QCL module for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), weighing only 75 grams (~2.5 oz). Block's next-generation LaserTune has been miniaturized to a compact (16.5 × 12.7 × 11 cm), wirelessly-controllable system, while offering the widest contiguous tuning range available on the market (greater than 1000 cm-1).

29 Jan 2014

Paul Scherrer Institute’s New Large-Scale Facility Due for Completion by End of 2014

The construction work in the woods is well underway: the building for SwissFEL, the Paul Scherrer Institute’s new large-scale facility, is due for completion by the end of 2014. The demands on the building are high: It needs to ensure that the sensitive equipment can run smoothly.

29 Jan 2014

Ferromagnetism Switching Inspires Future Applications in Low-Power Spintronics

Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism close to room temperature by using low electric fields. Their results are inspiring for future applications in low-power spintronics, for instance, in fast, efficient and nonvolatile data storage technologies.

28 Jan 2014

Possible Solution to Puzzle about Massive Star Formation

An international group of astrophysicists has found evidence strongly supporting a solution to a long-standing puzzle about the birth of some of the most massive stars in the universe.

28 Jan 2014

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International Collaboration to Streamline Process to Make Particle Physics Public

Researchers Discover How Extreme Galaxies Formed

NASA Provides Opportunity to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases in the Microgravity Environment

Researchers Create Synthetic Magnetic Monopoles

Asteroid Belt Provides New Clues to Tumultuous Past of the Solar System

Stellar Nursery Brewing in the Trifid Nebula

ESO's Very Large Telescope Helps Create Weather Map of Brown Dwarf

New Map Charts Size, Composition, and Location of More Than 100,000 Asteroids

Quantum-Mechanical Effects May Help Exceed Theoretical Limit for Efficiency of Ideal Solar Cells

CQT Announces Winners of Quantum Shorts 2013 Competition

Potentially Harder Tests Needed for Quantifying Quantum Speedup

New Ultra-Miniaturized Quantum Cascade Laser Products from Block Engineering

Paul Scherrer Institute’s New Large-Scale Facility Due for Completion by End of 2014

Ferromagnetism Switching Inspires Future Applications in Low-Power Spintronics

Possible Solution to Puzzle about Massive Star Formation

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