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 […]
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 […]
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 — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics and astronomy and inaugural holder of the Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn Chair in Observational Astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been appointed as a University Distinguished Professor, effective Sept. 1, 2013. Suntzeff, director of the Texas A&M astronomy program and a member of the George P. and Cynthia […]
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, […]
TUSCON — Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made. For the past several years, a group of optical scientists and engineers working at the UA Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory underneath the UA’s football stadium have been polishing an 8.4-meter (27.5 feet) diameter mirror […]
COLLEGE STATION — When astronomer Darren DePoy came to Texas A&M University in 2008, he did so with an important global goal: to help establish Texas A&M as a worldwide leader in astronomical instrumentation. Four years later, DePoy is living his dream, reveling in the results of a big-time gamble that involved leaving an established […]
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 […]
DOME ARGUS, Antartica — A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the Chinese Kunlun Station at Dome Argus, the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau. The telescope is the first of three, half-meter devices to be installed […]
COLLEGE STATION — A decade ago, Houston businessman and philanthropist George P. Mitchell was so certain there were big discoveries to be made in physics and astronomy and that they should come out of Texas A&M University, he put money on it, endowing the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and […]
COLLEGE STATION — Researchers have found evidence of cooperation in the unlikeliest of places — among atoms within solids. Dr. Alexey Belyanin, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, and Belyanin research group members Yongrui Wang and Dr. Aleksander Wojcik are part of a team of scientists that first predicted and recently observed this effect, […]
COLLEGE STATION — In mid-December at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and ATLAS (A Toroidal Lhc ApparatuS) experiments delivered a joint status update regarding their ongoing search for the Higgs boson, a hypothetical particle that is believed to give mass to all matter in the […]
TUSCON, Ariz. — On January 14, 2012, the second 8.4-meter (27.6 ft) diameter 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) underneath the campus football stadium. The Mirror […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Alexei V. Sokolov, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 JoAnn Treat Research Excellence Award by the Texas A&M Research Foundation Board of Trustees. Named in honor of JoAnn Treat, who served 19 years as president of the Research Foundation […]
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 — When the Space Shuttle Endeavour takes flight Friday (April 29) for its final mission, a $1.5 billion particle physics experiment with Texas A&M University ties will be along for the ride. As part of Endeavour’s swan song, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) — a galactic endeavor in its own right involving roughly […]
SEATTLE — Scientists announced this week that the Dark Energy Survey (DES) soon expects to make a substantial leap forward in our understanding of why the universe is accelerating and the nature of dark energy. DES Director Josh Frieman highlighted the project, which involves astronomers at Texas A&M University, and how it will advance our […]
COLLEGE STATION — An international team of researchers featuring Texas A&M University physicist Dr. Jairo Sinova has announced a breakthrough that gives a new spin to semiconductor nanoelectronics and the world of information technology. The team has developed an electrically controllable device whose functionality is based on an electron’s spin. Their results, the culmination of […]
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