EDITOR’S NOTE: We preface the following general university news release with comments from Nicholas B. Suntzeff, distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University and director of the astronomy program: “Most people have no idea what 87,000 miles really means. It is one-third the distance between the Earth and the Moon and would […]
There is a common misconception that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built only to search for the Higgs boson. It is intended to answer many different questions about subatomic particles and the nature of our universe, so the collision data are reused by thousands of scientists, each studying their own favorite questions. Usually, a […]
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 — An international team of astronomers led by Texas A&M University’s Kim-Vy Tran and using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unexpectedly discovered the most distant cosmic magnifying glass yet, produced by a monster elliptical galaxy. The galaxy existed 9.6 billion years ago, beating the previous record by 200 million years. It is known […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University is involved in two of the three dark matter experiments — including both of the ones searching for weakly interacting dark matter particles — selected for future funding by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. On Friday (July 11), the DOE’s Office of Science and […]
COLLEGE STATION — An international team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting just one star in a two-star system — a dynamic duo not only strikingly similar to our Earth and Sun but also key to the continuing evolution of planetary formation science. The team’s research, published today in the July 4 edition […]
CHICAGO AND GENEVA — Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), past and current holders of the record for most powerful particle collider on Earth. Scientists from the four experiments involved — […]
PASADENA, Calif. — The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project, in which Texas A&M University is a founding partner, has successfully passed two major reviews, completing its detailed design phase and positioning the project to enter the construction phase. When completed, the 25-meter GMT will have more than six times the collecting area of the largest […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicist Helmut G. Katzgraber’s research takes him to the crossroads of physics, computer science, quantum information theory and statistical mechanics. For more than a decade, he has been pushing the frontiers of computational physics to study hard optimization problems and disordered materials, applying his expertise to problems in the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Indara Suarez didn’t speak a word of English when she arrived to the U.S. from Mexico at age 12. The grades she made in high school weren’t good enough to get her into a four-year university. Now as a doctoral student at Texas A&M University working toward a Ph.D. in high-energy physics, […]
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 […]
LEAD, S.D. — A massive experiment quietly operating since spring roughly a mile underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota and involving liquid xenon, the world’s biggest detector and about a hundred international scientists — including Texas A&M University physicists — has proven itself the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world. Among […]
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 — 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 […]
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 — 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 — In the bizarre world of quantum physics, objects can be in more than one place at a time and future events can change the past. New research involving a Texas A&M University professor makes that microscopic realm even a bit stranger. Quantum physicist M. Suhail Zubairy, along with a post-doctoral fellow and […]
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