Physics
The 25-year-old Tevatron particle accelerator in the US will end its operations in September this year since no funds are available to extend its life for three more years. The Tevatron is located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermila
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Four researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society. David Christen, David Geohegan, Xun-Li Wang and William Weber were named APS fellows in recognition of th
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The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of the very cold into the very small, a research
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The Cold Triple Axis spectrometer, a new addition to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor and a complementary tool to other neutron scattering instruments at ORNL, has entered its commissioning phase.
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An ultra-secure form of coded communication could be given a boost, thanks to scientists from the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Rochester (USA). In a paper published in the journal Science, quantum physicists have demonstrated the randomne
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NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments including one from the University of Arizona for the first mission.
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At first, nanoshocks may seem like something to describe the millions of aftershocks of a large earthquake. But Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicists are using an ultra-fast laser-based technique they dubbed "nanoshocks" for something entirely different. In fact, the "nanoshocks" have such a small spatial scale that scientists can use them to study shock behavior in tiny samples such as thin films or other systems with microscopic dimensions (a few tens of micrometers).
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Four years after a keystroke produced the first neutrons, the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has moved into a new phase, both as a neutron research facility and as one of the scientific community's foremost user centers for materials research. "We now have the world's most intense pulsed neutron source, a fact that by itself is very attractive to anybody who wants to use neutrons to investigate materials," says Stephen Nagler, chief scientist of ORNL's Neutron Scattering Science Division.
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An international collaboration of scientists has announced the first results of the ACT project, probing the early years of the Universe, at Canada's largest supercomputing conference in Toronto on June 9. The presentation was made by Jonathan Sievers, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.
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A researcher at North Carolina State University has helped to develop a new method for describing the binding of protons and neutrons within nuclei. This method may improve scientists ability to predict and understand astrophysical reactions within stars.
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Jupiter has a warm heart located in the centre of its famous Red Spot, scientists have learned. The spot is a swirling cold storm system with higher temperatures at its core, new thermal imaging studies have shown.
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NISTs James Sims and IUs Stanley Hagstrom have calculated four excitation energies for the lithium atom approximately 100 times more accurately than any previous calculations or experimental measurements.
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