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Wits Physicists Contribute High Voltage Board for ATLAS Experiment on the Large Hadron Collider

Physicists from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have reached an important milestone and have made the first South African contribution of a “piece of hardware” to the ATLAS Experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization of Nuclear Research (CERN).

6 Sep 2013

Massive Amounts of Gas Blown Out of Galaxy by Powerful Jet of Material

Astronomers using a worldwide network of radio telescopes have found strong evidence that a powerful jet of material propelled to nearly light speed by a galaxy's central black hole is blowing massive amounts of gas out of the galaxy. This process, they said, is limiting the growth of the black hole and the rate of star formation in the galaxy, and thus is a key to understanding how galaxies develop.

6 Sep 2013

Failed Stars May be Warmer Than Previously Thought

Astronomers are constantly on the hunt for ever-colder star-like bodies, and two years ago a new class of objects was discovered by researchers using NASA's WISE space telescope. However, until now no one has known exactly how cool their surfaces really are - some evidence suggested they could be room temperature.

6 Sep 2013

Neutral Interstellar Atoms Flow into Solar System from Different Direction

Data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft reveal that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed.

6 Sep 2013

University of Southampton to Launch UK’s Largest Photonics and Electronics Institute

The University of Southampton is launching the largest photonics and electronics institute in the UK on Thursday 12 September.

5 Sep 2013

EPS Honors SFU Physicists with 2013 Prize for High-Energy and Particle Physics

After decades of searching for the Higgs boson, a theoretical subatomic particle that is a cornerstone of the structure of matter, international scientists announced in July 2012 that they had evidence of its existence.

5 Sep 2013

Quantum Mechanical Tools Help Explain New Low-Temperature Chemical Reaction

In all the centuries that humans have studied chemical reactions, just 36 basic types of reactions have been found. Now, thanks to the work of researchers at MIT and the University of Minnesota, a 37th type of reaction can be added to the list.

By David L. Chandler 5 Sep 2013

UCR Physicists Receive Recognition for Work on Compact Muon Solenoid Pixel Detector

A team of University of California, Riverside physicists recently received recognition for their work on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) pixel detector, a particle tracker integral to the study of fundamental particle physics. Martina Malberti, Kira Burt, Manuel Olmedo and Mauro Dinardo make up part of the group responsible for repairing malfunctioning channels in the forward pixel detector.

5 Sep 2013

Weakly Interacting Sub-Electron Volt Particles Include Axions That May be Part of Dark Matter

Nuclear magnetic resonance -- that phenomenon where nuclei of certain atoms, when in a magnetic field, take in and give off measurable amounts of electromagnetic radiation -- is everywhere.

5 Sep 2013

Project on Dark Matter From a Composite Goldstone Boson Presented at Mass 2013

For three weeks in August, leading physicists from all over the world attended the Mass 2013 conference at CP³-Origins in Odense, Denmark. Lots of new calculations were presented, among them the results of the project ‘Dark Matter from a Composite Goldstone Boson’ – a lattice study of SU(2) gauge theory with two fundamental fermions.

5 Sep 2013

Researchers Create Highest-Resolution Maps of Earth’s Gravity Field

A joint Australian-German research team led by Curtin University’s Dr Christian Hirt has created the highest-resolution maps of Earth’s gravity field to date – showing gravitational variations up to 40 per cent larger than previously assumed.

5 Sep 2013

New Scalesetting Method May Simplify Search for New Physics in the Universe

No one knows for sure, but it is not unlikely that the universe is constructed in a completely different way than the usual theories and models of today predict. The most widely used model today cannot explain everything in the universe, and therefore there is a need to explore the parts of nature which the model cannot explain. This research field is called new physics, and it turns our understanding of the universe upside down. New research now makes the search for new physics easier.

5 Sep 2013

New QKD System Overcomes Achilles’ Heel of Quantum-Based Secure Communication Systems

University of Calgary scientists have overcome an “Achilles’ heel” of quantum-based secure communication systems, using a new approach that works in the real world to safeguard secrets.

5 Sep 2013

Bipolar Planetary Nebulae Create Ghostly Butterfly Shapes Around Parent Stars

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's New Technology Telescope to explore more than 100 planetary nebulae in the central bulge of our galaxy. They have found that butterfly-shaped members of this cosmic family tend to be mysteriously aligned — a surprising result given their different histories and varied properties.

5 Sep 2013

Dark Energy Survey to Systematically Map One-Eighth of the Sky

For hundreds of nights during the next five years, the world’s most powerful digital camera will turn skyward, helping a team of physicists and astronomers from around the globe answer fundamental questions about our universe.

4 Sep 2013

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Wits Physicists Contribute High Voltage Board for ATLAS Experiment on the Large Hadron Collider

Massive Amounts of Gas Blown Out of Galaxy by Powerful Jet of Material

Failed Stars May be Warmer Than Previously Thought

Neutral Interstellar Atoms Flow into Solar System from Different Direction

University of Southampton to Launch UK’s Largest Photonics and Electronics Institute

EPS Honors SFU Physicists with 2013 Prize for High-Energy and Particle Physics

Quantum Mechanical Tools Help Explain New Low-Temperature Chemical Reaction

UCR Physicists Receive Recognition for Work on Compact Muon Solenoid Pixel Detector

Weakly Interacting Sub-Electron Volt Particles Include Axions That May be Part of Dark Matter

Project on Dark Matter From a Composite Goldstone Boson Presented at Mass 2013

Researchers Create Highest-Resolution Maps of Earth’s Gravity Field

New Scalesetting Method May Simplify Search for New Physics in the Universe

New QKD System Overcomes Achilles’ Heel of Quantum-Based Secure Communication Systems

Bipolar Planetary Nebulae Create Ghostly Butterfly Shapes Around Parent Stars

Dark Energy Survey to Systematically Map One-Eighth of the Sky

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