A University of Adelaide researcher, alongside members of an international team, has won an AU$16 million ERC Synergy Grant to use plasma energy to produce fertilisers which provides the opportunity for new business models and could even lead to crops on Mars.
Building on a 50-year legacy of accelerating science for research, medicine, and business, TRIUMF today received an historic $292.7M investment in support of the lab’s future and its vision for Canada.
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found a pulsar speeding away from its presumed birthplace at nearly 700 miles per second, with its trail pointing directly back at the center of a shell of debris from the supernova explosion that created it. The discovery is providing important insights into how pulsars — superdense neutron stars left over after a massive star explodes — can get a “kick” of speed from the explosion.
With a ceremony held on March 15, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory officially broke ground on a major new particle accelerator project that will power cutting-edge physics experiments for many decades to come.
New data from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail and complexity to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the building blocks that make up a proton contribute to its spin. The results reveal that different flavors of antiquarks contribute differently to spin--and in a way that's opposite to those flavors' relative abundance.
Planets grow in stellar disks accreting solid material and gas. Whether they become bodies like Earth or Jupiter depends on different factors like the properties of the solids, the pressure and temperature in the disk and the already accumulated material.
In late 2018, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at Bennu, the asteroid it will be studying and sampling over the next several years.
Throughout its nearly 30-year history, the VTA has contributed to the success of large-scale superconducting radiofrequency accelerators across the United States and around the world and continues to enable researchers to expand the frontiers of accelerator science and serve the needs of cutting-edge particle accelerator research facilities worldwide.
The award will support a five-year project during which a unique system of microscale self-propelled particles will be developed that will enable control of the movement in unprecedented ways.
Scientists have found a new way to use some of the world’s most powerful X-rays to watch how atoms move at ultrafast speeds within a single atomic sheet.
Research offers details on the chemistry of trihydrogen ion.
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is streaming data from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite to NASA and then to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), where the SWEAP team is analyzing it.
A team led by DOE’s Berkeley Lab has developed a method that could turn ordinary semiconducting materials into quantum machines – devices marked by extraordinary electronic behavior that could help to revolutionize a number of industries aiming for energy-efficient electronic systems.
Astronomers using Hubble and Gaia have made a precise measurement of the total mass of our Milky Way galaxy, which weighs in at 1.5 trillion times the mass of our Sun.
The latest data from the giant planets has sent researchers back to the drawing board. Cassini orbited Saturn for 13 years before its dramatic final dive into the planet’s interior, while Juno has been orbiting Jupiter for two and a half years; the data collected has been “invaluable but also confounding,” said David Stevenson from Caltech, who will present an update of both missions at the 2019 APS March Meeting in Boston. Innovative design that protected the instruments from fierce radiation and powered the mission on solar energy alone has reaped plenty of surprises.
Scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Bath used sound waves to levitate particles, revealing new insights about how materials cluster together in the absence of gravity—principles which underlie everything from how molecules assemble to the very early stages of planet formation from space dust.
A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has created a nanoscale “playground” on a chip that simulates the formation of exotic magnetic particles called monopoles. The study could unlock the secrets to ever-smaller, more powerful memory devices.
A new study commissioned by the Southeastern Universities Research Association on the local, state and nationwide impacts of the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that the laboratory generated $556.9 million in output and provided labor income for 3,448 workers nationwide last year.
A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, finds a Johns Hopkins study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method to simulate asteroid collisions.
This spring semester, Missouri University of Science and Technology became the state’s only institution to join the worldwide LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration (LSC) of researchers committed to detecting cosmic gravitational waves. This research explores the fundamental physics of gravity using the emerging field of gravitational wave science as a tool for astronomical discovery.
Combining a first laser pulse to heat up and “drill” through a plasma, and another to accelerate electrons to incredibly high energies in just tens of centimeters, scientists have nearly doubled the previous record for laser-driven particle acceleration at Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center.
Yes. Such condensates, analogous to those in carbon-12, in heavier nuclei could change how we describe certain elements.
A team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope, and older Voyager 2 spacecraft data, have studied the origin of the smallest known moon orbiting the planet Neptune. The moon, which was discovered in 2013 and has now received the official name Hippocamp, may actually be a fragment broken from its larger neighboring moon Proteus.
A San Diego State University astrophysicist has helped discover evidence of a gigantic remnant surrounding an exploding star--a shell of material so huge, it must have been erupting on a regular basis for millions of years.
Scientists from U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories and a number of top U.S. research universities are proposing to build, within the next decade, an electron ion collider that will provide scientists with one of the best in-depth views of the interior of atomic nuclei.
Feature describes the first fully kinetic model of plasma particles showing that fast reconnection can indeed occur in partially ionized plasma.
NASA has selected SPHEREx as its next Medium-Class Explorer Mission, for launch in 2023. The SPHEREx team includes scientists from the Computational Science and High Energy Physics divisions at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
Northern Arizona University planetary scientist Mark Salvatore eulogizes NASA's Opportunity rover after the mission was declared ended on Feb. 13, months after the rover went silent during a dust storm and 15 years after it landed on Mars.
NASA’s new Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments (PCE3) Consortium, one of five cross-divisional research coordination networks with the NASA Astrobiology Program, aims to identify planetary conditions that might give rise to life’s chemistry.
Using neutron characterization techniques a team of scientists have peered inside one of the most unique examples of wire gold, understanding for the first time the specimen's structure and possible formation process. The 263 gram, 12 centimeter tall specimen, known as the Ram's Horn, belongs to the collection of the Mineralogical and Geological Museum Harvard University (MGMH).
The Weizmann Institute's Prof. Oded Aharonson, who is head of the SpaceIL international science team, has designed a project to measure and examine the Moon's magnetic field. The moon landing will make Israel the fourth country to reach the rocky outpost.
For over a century and a half, Eta Carinae has been one of the most luminous – and most enigmatic – stars of the southern Milky Way.
UC San Diego’s Alison Coil and colleagues James Aird (University of Leicester, UK) and Antonis Georgakakis (National Observatory of Athens) recently published research findings to reveal how supermassive black holes are growing at the center of galaxies, and how that growth relates to the growth of galaxies themselves.
For several decades, the nuclear science community has been calling for a new type of particle collider to pursue – in the words of one report – “a new experimental quest to study the glue that binds us all.” This glue is responsible for most of the visible universe’s matter and mass. To learn about this glue, scientists are proposing a unique, high-energy collider that smashes accelerated electrons, which carry a negative charge, into charged atomic nuclei or protons, which carry a positive charge.
New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the Sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed.
The Zwicky Transient Facility has identified more than a thousand new objects and phenomena in the sky, including supernovae and near-Earth asteroids. University of Washington scientists led the development of the ZTF's alert system, which informs teams of possible new objects in the sky.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured a pair of storms on the solar-system ice giants Uranus (left) and Neptune (right). The dark vortex on Neptune, seen at top center, is the fourth storm spotted by Hubble since 1993. The snapshot of Uranus, like the image of Neptune, reveals a dominant feature: a vast bright stormy cloud cap across the north pole. The images are part of a Hubble program that annually monitors the outer solar-system planets.
Theoretical physicists are presenting a new idea that suggests an alternative history of the universe is possible. Let by Stony Brook University, details of the study are published in Physical Review Letters.
New crime scene investigation technique offers a hard look at the traces that particles leave before fleeing the scene.
The first prototype detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is taking data and producing extraordinary pictures of particle tracks.
An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered an unusually isolated dwarf galaxy that was hidden behind a forest of foreground stars in the nearby globular star cluster NGC 6752. A fraction of the size of our Milky Way, the diminutive galaxy is a largely unchanged living fossil from the universe's early days.
With a growing global population will come increased energy consumption, and sustainable forms of energy sources such as solar fuels and solar electricity will be in even greater demand. And as these forms of power proliferate, the focus will shift to improved efficiency.
Scientists widely accept the existence of quarks, the elusive fundamental particles that make up protons and neutrons. But information about their properties is still lacking.
An astrophysicist, a pro boxer and a TED Fellow walk into a room. And it's Federica Bianco. Her outside-the-box approach to life, learning and interdisciplinary adventure has caught the imagination of the TED Fellows program, as she will be one of only 20 fellows worldwide in the 2019 class.
Ken A. Dill, PhD, Distinguished Professor and the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair of Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University, has been named co-winner of the 2019 American Physical Society’s (APS) Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.
To help solve a big data program for a new telescope that will conduct a major sky survey of the from the high desert of Chile, a scientific collaboration launched a competition to find the best way to train computers to identify the many types of objects it will be imaging. A researcher at Berkeley Lab beat out more than 1,000 participating teams to win the first phase of the competition.
Feature describes prototype of new device that mitigates disruption of fusion plasmas faster than the most developed techniques today.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted galaxy D100 being stripped of its gas as the wayward spiral plunges towards the center of the giant Coma cluster containing more than 1,000 galaxies. Gas is the lifeblood of a galaxy, fueling the birth of new stars. Once it is stripped of all of its gas, D100 will enter retirement and shine only by the feeble glow of its aging, red stars (such as galaxy D99 -- just below and to the left of D100) in this image.
Pasadena, CA-- "Can moons have moons?" This simple question--asked by the four-year old son of Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier--started it all. Not long after this initial bedtime query, Kollmeier was coordinating a program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on the Milky Way while her one-time college classmate Sean Raymond of Université de Bordeaux was attending a parallel KITP program on the dynamics of Earth-like planets. After discussing this very simple question at a seminar, the two joined forces to solve it. Their findings are the basis of a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
New simulations led by researchers working at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have combined decades-old theories to provide new insight about the driving mechanisms in plasma jets that allows them to steal energy from black holes’ powerful gravitational fields and propel it far from their gaping mouths.
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