First Teller professor appointed in the US
The department has close links with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, also in California, which Teller played a key role in establishing in the early 1950s. The applied science department at...
Mobile-phone satellites could lead to their own downfall
Space agencies have become increasingly concerned about space debris after both the Russian Mir Space Station and the US Space Shuttle were damaged by flecks of paint travelling at over 13 kilometres ...
EU releases research report
The report also highlights the fact that 27% of the members of the panels that advise the EU on research are women. It does not, however, mention last year’s report on mismanagement and fraud in...
Synchrotron up for grabs
“The meeting was extraordinarily successful in helping to bring people together,” says Siegbert Rather, director for physical sciences at the United Nations Educa-tional, Scientific and Cu...
CERN confirms direct CP violation
Charge-parity (CP) symmetry implies that particles and antiparticles behave like mirror images of each other. Charge conjugation changes particles into their antiparticles – e.g., electrons beco...
Neutrino prediction proved wrong
Researchers have been worried about the discrepancy between the experimental data and simulations at Super-Kamiokande for some time. According to the simulations, the experiment was detecting too few ...
Bubble breakthrough for magnets
Fukumura and colleagues used a scanning Hall probe microscope to study the formation of the bubbles. The compound that they studied is unusual in that its magnetic structure changes markedly with temp...
Read article: Gemini telescope passes first hurdle
Gemini telescope passes first hurdle
Gemini-North is situated on top of Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano some 4200 meters above sea level. Mauna Kea is a popular location for telescopes because of its high altitude and clear skies. The 8-me...
AMS hints at cosmic-ray mystery
The experiment also found that changes in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field with latitude do not alter the number of low-energy protons hitting the Earth’s atmosphere. However the...
Defects work for laser
The photonic crystal was made by using an ion beam to drill a 2D hexagonal array of holes in a layer of indium gallium arsenide phosphide (InGaAsP). The regular spacing of the holes means that only ce...
