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Telescope Observations Reveal Star-Forming Galaxies

When a batch of bright cosmic objects first appeared in maps in 2008 made with data from the South Pole Telescope, astronomers at the University of Chicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics regarded it only as an unavoidable nuisance.

14 Mar 2013

Tackling Challenges in Accelerator Science Sparks Solutions for Science, Industry, and More

Some would call the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — an "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory — the most modern accelerator facility in the world.

14 Mar 2013

Micro-drum Designed by NIST Physicists Offers Potential Application in Quantum Computer

One of the oldest forms of computer memory is back again—but in a 21st century microscopic device designed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for possible use in a quantum computer.

14 Mar 2013

Feynman's Methodology Shows Particle-Wave Duality of Electrons

The precise methodology of Richard Feynman's famous double-slit thought-experiment – a cornerstone of quantum mechanics that showed how electrons behave as both a particle and a wave – has been followed in full for the very first time.

14 Mar 2013

NASA Discovers a Pair of Brown Dwarfs

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a pair of stars that has taken over the title for the third-closest star system to the sun. The duo is the closest star system discovered since 1916.

13 Mar 2013

UAHuntville to Participate in NASA Mission to Investigate Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntville) has been selected by NASA to participate in a mission designed to investigate the highest energy cosmic rays, single sub-atomic particles, each with as much kinetic energy as a major league pitcher’s fastball.

12 Mar 2013

Higgs Boson, Nebulae and Star Clusters Form Part of UA Public Night

William Keel has spent several years listening for the gasp – the sound a 6-year-old makes as he sees Saturn with his own wide eyes. When Keel hears this sound, he knows a young boy’s textbook-limited ideas about the cosmos have just transformed.

12 Mar 2013

A Solution for Predicting Thirring Model Interactions of Relativistic Fermions

A major challenge for physics in the last century was connecting two of its leading theories – quantum physics and special relativity. Researchers are still grappling with the relativistic quantum theories that resulted. Writing in Physical Review Letters, CQT researchers propose a solution to one outstanding problem: how to make predictions from the Thirring Model.

12 Mar 2013

Solid-State Refrigerator Uses Quantum Physics to Cool Large Objects to Extremely Low Temperatures

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a solid-state refrigerator that uses quantum physics in micro- and nanostructures to cool a much larger object to extremely low temperatures.

11 Mar 2013

New Ultraviolet Telescope to Trace Source of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded $4.4 million to a collaboration of scientists at five U.S. universities and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to help build a telescope for deployment on the International Space Station in 2017.

11 Mar 2013

Attosecond Science May Help Control Quantum Nature of the Electron

In the blink of an eye, more attoseconds have expired than the age of Earth measured in – minutes. A lot more. To be precise, an attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second.

8 Mar 2013

Young-Looking Supernova Found in Old Galaxy

The star Eta Carinae is ready to blow. 170 years ago, this 100-solar-mass object belched out several suns' worth of gas in an eruption that made it the second-brightest star after Sirius. That was just a precursor to the main event, since it will eventually go supernova.

8 Mar 2013

Astronomers Refine Astronomical Calculation That Helps Measure Expansion of the Universe

A team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Ian Thompson have managed to improve the measurement of the distance to our nearest neighbor galaxy and, in the process, refine an astronomical calculation that helps measure the expansion of the universe. Their work is published March 7 by Nature.

8 Mar 2013

Oldest Known Star with a Well-Determined Age Found

A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star that's been around for a very long time.

8 Mar 2013

Scientists Image Atomic Collapse States around Super-Large Atomic Nuclei

Berkeley Lab researchers recreate elusive phenomenon with artificial nuclei

8 Mar 2013

Quantum Science News

Telescope Observations Reveal Star-Forming Galaxies

Tackling Challenges in Accelerator Science Sparks Solutions for Science, Industry, and More

Micro-drum Designed by NIST Physicists Offers Potential Application in Quantum Computer

Feynman's Methodology Shows Particle-Wave Duality of Electrons

NASA Discovers a Pair of Brown Dwarfs

UAHuntville to Participate in NASA Mission to Investigate Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

Higgs Boson, Nebulae and Star Clusters Form Part of UA Public Night

A Solution for Predicting Thirring Model Interactions of Relativistic Fermions

Solid-State Refrigerator Uses Quantum Physics to Cool Large Objects to Extremely Low Temperatures

New Ultraviolet Telescope to Trace Source of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Attosecond Science May Help Control Quantum Nature of the Electron

Young-Looking Supernova Found in Old Galaxy

Astronomers Refine Astronomical Calculation That Helps Measure Expansion of the Universe

Oldest Known Star with a Well-Determined Age Found

Scientists Image Atomic Collapse States around Super-Large Atomic Nuclei

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