COLLEGE STATION — Dr. George W. Kattawar, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive The Oceanography Society’s 2014 Nils Gunnar Jerlov Award. The Jerlov Award, named for ocean optics research pioneer Nils Gunnar Jerlov and funded by NASA and the U.S. Office of Naval Research, is bestowed […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has officially agreed to support the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in managing the construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile. Texas A&M University astronomers Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Lifan Wang and Lucas Macri in the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicist Tatiana Erukhimova has been honored by the Texas A&M chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, as the 2014 recipient of the chapter’s Outstanding Science Communicator Award in recognition of superior skill and dedication to improving science education. Erukhimova received a commemorative plaque and a $750 cash […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
COLLEGE STATION — As their football squads prepare to meet for the first time in Southeastern Conference history Saturday (Oct. 20) at Kyle Field, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University are teaming up to study collisions of another variety — the nuclear kind — on one of the world’s biggest stages for nuclear astrophysics, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astronomer Nicholas B. Suntzeff has had his fair share of star moments, professional and otherwise. For starters, he played a key role in discovering three-quarters of the Universe, a mysterious substance known as dark energy that appears to be causing the Universe’s accelerated expansion — a breakthrough recognized with […]
COLLEGE STATION — Physicists at Texas A&M University are celebrating the biggest news out of CERN since the 2008 start-up of the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — observation of a new particle with boson-like appearances. After nearly a half-century of searching for the Higgs boson, known as the “God particle” because it is […]
COLLEGE STATION — Earlier this week, three U.S.-born scientists took center stage in the world’s most prestigious scientific production, winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. While Saul Perlmutter (University of California, Berkeley), Brian Schmidt (Australian National University) and Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University/Space Telescope Science Institute) will go down in history as co-recipients of […]
COLLEGE STATION — Physicists at Texas A&M University are celebrating a flagship result out of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) that could have big implications in explaining dark matter. After sifting through 10 years of data gleaned from roughly 350 trillion proton-antiproton collisions by Fermilab’s powerful atom-smashing Tevatron, the CDF collaboration — which features […]
AUSTIN — Have you noticed that no one seems to talk about clock rate anymore? Instead of boosting speed at the microprocessor level, companies are packing more cores on a chip and more blades in a server, adding density to make up for the fact that, in the current paradigm, transistors cannot operate much faster. […]
COLLEGE STATION — Much like quiet, middle-aged baby boomers peacefully residing in some of the world’s largest cities, families of some galaxies also have a hidden wild youth that they only now are revealing for the first time, according to research by astronomers at Texas A&M University. In ongoing observations of one of the Universe’s […]
COLLEGE STATION — A capacity audience sat spellbound Monday (April 5) evening in Texas A&M University’s Rudder Auditorium as world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking presented his lecture “Out of a Black Hole” yet laughed eagerly when he punctuated the standing-room-only event with trademark bits of humor, clearly indicating that his famed wisdom and wit remain as […]
BALTIMORE — Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a landmark Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the Universe’s present expansion rate to a precision where the error is smaller than five percent. The new value for the expansion rate, known as the Hubble constant or […]
COLLEGE STATION — Two Nobel Prize-winning physicists will visit Texas A&M University next week to deliver public lectures on two of the hottest topics in science — particle physics and cosmology. Dr. George F. Smoot, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of physics at the University of California-Berkeley, shared in the 2006 […]
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