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CERN Scientists to Present at EPS-HEP 2013 and Strangeness in Quark Matter Conferences

Scientists working on CERN experiments are preparing to present their latest results at summer conferences. This year, two major conferences are coming up over the next couple of weeks: the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics conference, EPS-HEP 2013, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 18-24 July, and Strangeness in Quark Matter, SQM 2013, held in Birmingham, UK, from 22-27 July.

18 Jul 2013

Radiation Output May Help Identify Exoplanets

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do other planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, also host life forms?

18 Jul 2013

Extreme Gravitational Field of Supermassive Black Hole Grossly Stretches Gas Cloud

New observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that its front part has passed the closest point and is travelling away from the black hole at more than 10 million km/h, whilst the tail is still falling towards it.

18 Jul 2013

Quantum Flash Fiction Competition Announced by CQT

After the runaway success of last year's short film competition, CQT is now looking for quantum "flash fiction". We are challenging people to take inspiration from quantum theory to come up with a short story that is no longer than 1000 words.

17 Jul 2013

APS Honors Penn State Woman Physicist for Research on Close Binary Stars

Mercedes Richards, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, is being honored as the July 2013 Woman Physicist of the Month by the American Physical Society. Richards studies close pairs of stars, called interacting binaries, which are pairs of stars that were formed at the same time, like twins, but in which each star matures at different rates and affects the evolution of its companion.

17 Jul 2013

Cosmic Photography of Earth from Between Saturn’s Rings

From 898 million miles away, NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will snap a portrait of Earth July 19 from between Saturn’s rings as North America and the Atlantic Ocean repose on the sunny side of Earth.

16 Jul 2013

Researchers Pry out Innermost Secrets of Heavy Fermions

CeCoIn5 is an oxymoron. It’s a “heavy fermion” material, in which electrons act like their mass is 1,000 times what it should be, because moving electrons interact magnetically with its atoms and slow down. But it also can be a superconductor, in which an electric current flows without resistance, when its super heavy electrons join in “Cooper pairs” that are magnetically neutral and avoid magnetic interference.

16 Jul 2013

AAS Honors Manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office with 2013 Carl Sagan Medal

For his work making the solar system's nomads of the night sky -- near-Earth objects, asteroids and comets -- tangible and compelling for millions of people, Donald K. Yeomans, the manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, has received the 2013 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

15 Jul 2013

Montana Researchers Receive NASA Grant to Detect Earth-Like Exoplanets

NASA recently awarded researchers at the University of Montana a grant to support a $1.125 million project to build a dedicated observatory to detect Earth-like exoplanets.

15 Jul 2013

Ludwig-Maximilians and Landau Researchers Win 2013 Gruber Cosmology Prize

The 2013 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognises Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky for their formative contributions to inflationary theory, an essential component for understanding the evolution and structure of the Universe.

15 Jul 2013

Deep, Unexpected Connection Uncovered Between Game Theory and Quantum Physics

A deep link between two seemingly unconnected areas of modern science has been discovered by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Geneva.

15 Jul 2013

Researchers Identify Factors Needed for Magnetically Mediated Superconductivity

In the search for understanding how some magnetic materials can be transformed to carry electric current with no energy loss, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cornell University, and collaborators have made an important advance: Using an experimental technique they developed to measure the energy required for electrons to pair up and how that energy varies with direction, they've identified the factors needed for magnetically mediated superconductivity—as well as those that aren't.

15 Jul 2013

LHC Accelerator Program Successfully Tests Superconducting Quadrupole Magnet

The U.S. LHC Accelerator Program (LARP) has successfully tested a powerful superconducting quadrupole magnet that will play a key role in developing a new beam focusing system for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This advanced system, together with other major upgrades to be implemented over the next decade, will allow the LHC to produce 10 times more high-energy collisions than it was originally designed for.

12 Jul 2013

Multiplatform Media Proposals to Spark Scientific Curiosity of Tweens Receive CERN and EUROVISION Grants

CERN and EUROVISION are awarding grants to two production companies to develop multiplatform media proposals to spark the scientific curiosity of “tweens” – children aged eight to twelve.

12 Jul 2013

Hubble Confirms Blue Planet

Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away.

12 Jul 2013

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CERN Scientists to Present at EPS-HEP 2013 and Strangeness in Quark Matter Conferences

Radiation Output May Help Identify Exoplanets

Extreme Gravitational Field of Supermassive Black Hole Grossly Stretches Gas Cloud

Quantum Flash Fiction Competition Announced by CQT

APS Honors Penn State Woman Physicist for Research on Close Binary Stars

Cosmic Photography of Earth from Between Saturn’s Rings

Researchers Pry out Innermost Secrets of Heavy Fermions

AAS Honors Manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office with 2013 Carl Sagan Medal

Montana Researchers Receive NASA Grant to Detect Earth-Like Exoplanets

Ludwig-Maximilians and Landau Researchers Win 2013 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Deep, Unexpected Connection Uncovered Between Game Theory and Quantum Physics

Researchers Identify Factors Needed for Magnetically Mediated Superconductivity

LHC Accelerator Program Successfully Tests Superconducting Quadrupole Magnet

Multiplatform Media Proposals to Spark Scientific Curiosity of Tweens Receive CERN and EUROVISION Grants

Hubble Confirms Blue Planet

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