“We compared Gamma Ray Spectrometer data on potassium, thorium and iron above and below a shoreline believed to mark an ancient ocean that covered a third of…
A group of physicists from the University of Liege, Belgium, is publishing research in the New Journal of Physics today, Tuesday, 18 November, which shows how…
The group researching this quantum cryptography network are members of the Quantum Computing and Information Research Group based at the School of Computing,…
A major milestone has been achieved in the completion of the UK’s next-generation particle accelerator, ALICE, which is set to produce an intense beam of light…
Scientists have acquired more clues in the mystery of how the spin, or intrinsic angular momentum of a nucleon (proton or neutron), results from its…
Because of the versatility of their approach—it can be used with a wide range of ions tailored to the task at hand—it is expected to have broad application in…
In two new papers* on a recently discovered class of high-temperature superconductors, they report that the already complicated relationship between magnetism…
SHIMMER was originally launched as the primary payload of STPSat-1 on March 8, 2007, with the objective to demonstrate the novel optical technique of Spatial…
But the “pico satellite” being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to…
Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away…
Fomalhaut has been a candidate for planet hunting ever since an excess of dust was discovered around the star in the early 1980s by the US- UK-Dutch Infrared…
Electrons exhibit a property called ‘spin’ and work like tiny magnets which can point up, down or a quantum superposition of both. The state of the spin can be…
Members of the European Parliament, Commission and other relevant stakeholders had the opportunity to learn about the range of services satellites can provide…
Ichiro Oba, Professor, Faculty of Science and EngineeringKouhei Yorita, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and EngineeringIn September 2008, the…
These new planets are young enough that they are still glowing from heat leftover from their formation which took place approximately 60 million years ago…
The 'Black Hole Universe' network will study black holes and their role in the universe, from the collapsed remnants of stars to their giant cousins (up to…
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