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Combined Power Of Space Telescopes Finds Candidate For Most Distant Object Yet

Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)

By combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new record f...

BOSS Quasars Unveil a New Era in the Expansion History of the Universe

Nov 16, 2012 (SPX)

BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is mapping a huge volume of space to measure the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe. BOSS i...

Boss Quasars Unveil A New Era In The Expansion History Of The Universe

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

Berkeley Lab scientists and their Sloan Digital Sky Survey colleagues are using quasars to probe dark energy over 10 billion years in the past. BOSS, the Baryon...

Astronomers Measure The Universe's Deceleration Before Dark Energy Took Over

Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)

For the past five billion years, the expansion of the Universe has been speeding up, powered by the mysterious repulsive force known as "dark energy." But thank...

Study provides recipe for 'supercharging' atoms with X-ray laser

Nov 13, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to strip...

CERN collider to become the world's fastest stopwatch?

Nov 13, 2012 (SPX)

Heavy ion collisions at CERN should be able to produce the shortest light pulses ever created. This was demonstrated by computer simulations at the Vienna Unive...

Huddersfield physicist join global partners inBig Bang particle search

Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Huddersfield are collaborating with experts at some of the world's leading research institutes in an attempt to unravel the myst...

Swiss watches tick to Chinese heartbeat

Nov 11, 2012 (AFP)

With the Chinese increasingly coveting European luxury goods, Swiss watchmakers are eyeing a huge new market for their wares, but disagree on the best way of ca...

Electron Microscopes With a Twist

Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)

Nowadays, electron microscopes are an essential tool, especially in the field of materials science. At TU Vienna, electron beams are being created that possess ...

Enigmatic Nematics

Nov 06, 2012 (SPX)

Physicists use hydrodynamics to understand the physical mechanism responsible for changes in the long-range order of groups of particles. Particularly, Aparna B...

World record for the entanglement of twisted light quanta

Nov 05, 2012 (SPX)

To this end, the researchers developed a new method for entangling single photons which gyrate in opposite directions. This result is a first step towards entan...

Bristol scientists perform new experiment to solve the 'one real mystery' of quantum mechanics

Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)

What is light made of: waves or particles? This basic question has fascinated physicists since the early days of science. Quantum mechanics predicts that photon...

Super-massive black hole inflates giant bubble

Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)

Using a brand-new radio telescope, astronomers have produced one of the best images ever made at the lowest frequencies of giant bubbles produced by a super-mas...

Researchers look beyond space and time to cope with quantum theory

Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)

Physicists have proposed an experiment that could force us to make a choice between extremes to describe the behaviour of the Universe. The proposal comes from ...

Neutron experiments give unprecedented look at quantum oscillations

Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found that nitrogen atoms in the compound uranium nitride exhibit unexpected, disti...

Revealing a Mini-Supermassive Black Hole

Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)

One of the lowest mass supermassive black holes ever observed in the middle of a galaxy has been identified, thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and seve...

NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole

Oct 24, 2012 (JPL)

NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the ...

Making a layer cake with atomic precision

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

In a report published in Nature Physics, a group led Dr Leonid Ponomarenko and Nobel prize-winner Professor Andre Geim has assembled individual atomic layers on...

Applied physics as art

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

In Harvard's Pierce Hall, the surface of a small germanium-coated gold sheet shines vividly in crimson. A centimeter to the right, where the same metallic coati...

Extending Einstein's theory beyond light speed

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein's theory holds t...