COLLEGE STATION — Ricardo Eusebi, Teruki Kamon, Alexei Safonov, David Toback and other physicists at Texas A&M University are part of a worldwide effort, using some of the most powerful high-energy physics equipment ever built, to help understand the fundamental construction of the physical world. They are on the trail of almost unimaginably small fundamental […]
A project to discover the nature of dark energy, a mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, has received an $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The funds will be split among The University of Texas at Austin ($3.6 million), Texas A&M University ($3.9 million) and Penn State […]
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 […]
BALTIMORE, Md. — Although the latest image released by the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute as part of the Hubble Heritage Project may have originated in deep space, it has local Texas A&M University ties. The image, unveiled Tuesday (August 10), is a deep-exposure shot depicting NCG 4911, a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep […]
COLLEGE STATION — Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, a Texas A&M University-led team of astronomers has uncovered what may very well be the earliest, most distant cluster of galaxies ever detected. The group of roughly 60 galaxies, called CLG J02182-05102, is nearly 10 billion years old — born just 4 billion years after the Big […]
COLLEGE STATION — At the same time most Texas A&M University students, faculty and staff will be leaving Aggieland next week for spring break, many of the world’s foremost experts in string theory and M-theory will be gathering on the Texas A&M campus to participate in the 2010 Strings Conference, hosted March 15-19 by the […]
COLLEGE STATION — A worldwide team of researchers, including 10 physicists from Texas A&M University, have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately after the creation of the Universe — the so-called “Big Bang” — a development which could lead to new questions and answers about […]
COLLEGE STATION — Nearly two months after unveiling their detection of two events with characteristics matching those of the particles physicists believe make up dark matter, scientists from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment — including physicists from Texas A&M University — celebrated another milestone Thursday (Feb. 11): publication in the prestigious journal Science. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Texas A&M University’s Dr. Rupak Mahapatra, assistant professor of physics and principal investigator for the Texas A&M Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment group, will be presenting a colloquium Friday (Dec. 18) on results from the experiment’s latest search using data collected during the past two years. Mahapatra’s talk, which will broadcast via […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University experimental physicists Teruki Kamon, Alexei Safonov, David Toback and Peter McIntyre, and theoretical physicists Dimitri Nanopoulos, Bhaskar Dutta and Richard Arnowitt, are among the many researchers worldwide who are awaiting the first full-scale physics experiments to begin soon at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful […]
AMARILLO — As part of a statewide celebration of astronomy in commemoration of 2009 as the official International Year of Astronomy, the Don Harrington Discovery Center will host an evening of astronomy Friday (Oct. 2) featuring a free public lecture by Texas A&M University astronomer Dr. Darren DePoy. DePoy, professor of physics and holder of […]
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 — In just its fourth year, the Saturday Morning Physics Program at Texas A&M University has already surpassed expectations, both for student and teacher attendance, thanks to the organization and leadership of Dr. Ralf Rapp, associate professor of physics, and his team of volunteers. What began in 2006 as a five-year research outreach […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University, along with eight other astronomical research organizations from three continents, has signed the Founders’ Agreement to construct and operate the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) at Las Campanas Observatory in the Andes Mountains of Chile. “We are poised to enter the age of the greatest advances in astronomy — […]
COLLEGE STATION — As the first beam of protons careened at near-light speed around Europe’s $9 billion, 17-mile Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland in the early-morning hours of September 10, so did the hard work and dreams of seven Texas A&M University physicists. Texas A&M experimental physicists Teruki Kamon, David Toback, Alexei Safonov […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — While walking home on November 11, 1572, astronomer Tycho Brahe idly glanced at the sky. He was surprised to see a bright star in the constellation Cassiopeia that hadn’t been there before. The new star, which we now know to be the result of a stellar explosion or supernova, grew brighter than […]
COLLEGE STATION — High-tech devices seem to be constantly shrinking — from the tiny iPod nano to the latest laptop computers that are no larger than a notebook. Manufacturers, however, can only make devices as small as scientists can build computer chips, so Texas A&M University physics researcher M. Suhail Zubairy and two colleagues at […]
EDUCATION CITY, DOHA, Qatar — Research being conducted by Dr. M. Suhail Zubairy, a professor of physics at Texas A&M University who currently is teaching at the university’s branch campus in Qatar, has been featured by the American Physical Society. Zubairy and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, are […]
COLLEGE STATION — Nestled high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, a rocky plot of ground will be the site for the world’s largest telescope — one so powerful that it is expected to give perhaps the first definitive answer of whether or not there is life beyond Earth. Everything about the telescope is […]
COLLEGE STATION — Einstein’s self-proclaimed “biggest blunder” — his postulation of a cosmological constant (a force that opposes gravity and keeps the Universe from collapsing) — may not be such a blunder after all, according to the research of an international team of scientists that includes two Texas A&M University researchers. The team is working […]
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