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Preservation at Work

Cows Meet Quantum, Lifelong Learning on the Banks of the Brazos

CALVERT — On 1,000 acres of verdant grass and dirt trails 35 miles north of Bryan and strewn with some 200 cows and calves, world-renowned Texas A&M University quantum physicist Marlan Scully is cultivating a vision befitting his nickname, “the Quantum Cowboy” — a farm where he combines cutting-edge laser research with student teaching, from […]
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SinovaJairo

Sinova Awarded Eminent Humboldt Professorship in Germany

COLLEGE STATION — Jairo Sinova, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship — one of the most eminent and highly endowed research posts in Germany — in recognition of outstanding achievements in science. Since 2008 the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded up to 10 professorships per […]
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Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS)

Major Award to Bolster Texas A&M Quantum Laser Technology

COLLEGE STATION — A three-year, $10.8 million investment by the Texas A&M University System is set to provide a major boost to multidisciplinary quantum biophotonics research across the Texas A&M University campus. Biophotonics combines biology and photonics, which is the study of quantum units of light called photons. Researchers will draw on sophisticated laser technology […]
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UT, Texas A&M Astronomers Discover Universe’s Most Distant Galaxy

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin may be former football rivals, but the Lone Star State’s two research giants have teamed up to detect the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy ever found — one created within 700 million years after the Big Bang. The research is published in […]
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Suntzeff

Suntzeff Earns Bush Excellence Award for International Research

COLLEGE STATION — Nicholas B. Suntzeff, university distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been recognized as one of three faculty recipients of 2013 Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service. Suntzeff, who was honored for his excellence in international research, received the prestigious award along with […]
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CMS Detector

Texas A&M Scientists Celebrate Nobel Prize for Higgs Discovery

COLLEGE STATION — A group of physicists from Texas A&M University are basking in the worldwide glow of big science, based on their critical supporting role along with thousands of scientists across the globe in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded today (Oct. 8) by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to theorists Peter […]
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Dark Energy Camera

Dark Energy Survey Begins Five-Year Mission to Map Southern Sky

COLLEGE STATION — On an otherwise unremarkable evening last Saturday (Aug. 31) in Chile, the first official image in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) was recorded by the world’s most powerful digital camera, marking the beginning of a new era of discoveries about dark energy and other mysteries of the universe. For hundreds of nights […]
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Stephen Hawking and George Mitchell

Stephen Hawking Eulogizes George Mitchell as Science Visionary, World-Changer, Friend

EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the highlights of yesterday’s (Thursday, Aug. 8) memorial tribute celebrating the life of George P. Mitchell ’40 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas, was a videotaped eulogy delivered by one of his lifelong heroes and friends, world-renowned Cambridge University theoretical physicist Stephen W. Hawking. The following is […]
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Giant Magellan Telescope

Third Mirror Casting Event for Giant Magellan Telescope Set for August 24

TUCSON, Ariz. — On Saturday, August 24, 2013, the third mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — of which Texas A&M University is a founding member — will be cast inside a rotating furnace at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab (SOML), the only facility in the world where mirrors of this […]
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CMS detector

Discovery of Rare Decay Narrows Space for New Physics

GENEVA — After a quarter of a century of searching, physicists have discovered a rare particle decay that gives them an indirect way to test models of new physics. Researchers with the CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced today (Friday, July 19) at the EPS-HEP Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, […]
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Mitchell Institute Physics Enhancement Program (MIPEP)

DOWN TO A SCIENCE: Texas A&M Physics Faculty Teaching Teachers for Texas

COLLEGE STATION Paula Hiltibidal muddled through teaching high school physics in the 1990s at Richland High School near Fort Worth. Then one day, a colleague told her about a program at Texas A&M University run by then-Texas A&M physics professor Robert Clark that aimed to teach high school teachers basic physics concepts so they would […]
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Dr. Peter M. McIntyre working in his lab with former graduate student Kyle Damborsky and former postdoctoral researcher Feng Lu.

Texas A&M Physicist Sees Energy Solutions in Green Nuclear Power Technology

COLLEGE STATION — In the mind of Texas A&M University physicist Peter McIntyre, two of America’s most pressing energy challenges — what to do with radiotoxic spent nuclear fuel and dwindling energy resources — can be solved in one scientific swipe. He is developing the technology that is capable of destroying the dangerous waste and, […]
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6-inch detectors

Dark Matter Search Results Indicate First Hint of WIMP-like Signal

COLLEGE STATION — An international collaboration whose search for dark matter is powered by detectors being fabricated at Texas A&M University has for the first time observed a concrete hint of what physicists believe to be the particle behind dark matter and therefore nearly a quarter of the universe — a WIMP, or weakly interacting […]
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Footprint Found

Texas A&M Has Ties to Nobel Laureate’s Latest Dark Matter Results

COLLEGE STATION — Collecting dust at a warehouse in Switzerland is a piece of space junk that Texas A&M University physicist Peter McIntyre and his team worked on for three years. Though the magnet never left Earth — the casualty of a NASA policy change — McIntyre’s effort helped make him one of many co-authors […]
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Texas Wheel

Physics & Engineering Festival Set for Saturday

COLLEGE STATION — Make a date for free family fun and get up-close and personal with the many wonders of science and technology this weekend at the 2013 Physics and Engineering Festival, scheduled for Saturday (April 6) on the Texas A&M University campus. No fees or tickets are required for the free annual event, which […]
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Bubble Magic

Physics & Engineering Festival Features Hands-On Universal Fun

COLLEGE STATION — The Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University invite audiences across Texas to get up-close and personal with science and technology next month at the 2013 Physics & Engineering Festival, an entertaining and informative weekend scientific extravaganza for all ages. No fees or tickets are […]
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Comet PanSTARRS

Need Spring Break Plans? Consider Comet Watching

COLLEGE STATION — Heads up from Texas A&M University astronomers regarding Comet PanSTARRS, which will be visible to the naked eye as it zips through the skies over Bryan-College Station and the northern hemisphere starting this week. Don Carona, manager of the Texas A&M Physics and Astronomy Teaching Observatory, advises scanning the western horizon for […]
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Milky Way

Mysterious Substance Dark Matter in Focus at Texas A&M Workshop

COLLEGE STATION — Scientists from around the world will join Texas A&M University’s top experts in high-energy physics and astrophysics for a three-day workshop beginning Friday (March 8) that will delve into dark matter, the unknown substance that makes up nearly a quarter of the universe. Roughly three dozen dark-matter researchers from the U.S. and […]
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