COLLEGE STATION — A physics professor’s invention to decontaminate industrial wastewater could become a powerful new weapon against anthrax. Peter McIntyre and a group of colleagues at Texas A&M University have developed a cost-effective device to produce high energy electron beams that can break down harmful organic molecules in water – and destroy bacteria such […]
COLLEGE STATION — Affectionately called the “quantum cowboy,” Marlan Scully rides herd on experiments at the frontiers of physics, bringing to life knowledge to spur applications in optics, computing and quantum mechanics. Talk to Scully about his “top gun” physicist status, and he responds with the kind of “aw-shucks modesty” typical of the Western hero. […]
COLLEGE STATION — Richard L. Garwin, one of the world’s foremost experts on advanced weapons systems and a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, will deliver a lecture titled “National Missile Defense: Why, How and Whether?” at 4 p.m. Thursday (April 11) at Texas A&M University. Garwin’s […]
THE WOODLANDS — Dimitri Nanopoulos, head of the Houston Advanced Research Center’s Astroparticle Physics Group, holder of the rank of Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, and Chair of Theoretical Physics at the Academy of Athens, has been ranked as the fourth most frequently cited high-energy physicist by SPIRES, Stanford University’s public information […]
COLLEGE STATION — The sun not only radiates light all over the place, but it also emits millions of tiny invisible particles called neutrinos. A team of Texas A&M University physicists has reported in the journal Physical Review C one of the most precise results about the number of solar neutrinos by using an original […]
COLLEGE STATION — Physicists at Texas A&M University have joined the battle to fight cancer by studying collisions between particles. Professor John F. Reading and three graduate students are trying to understand how to make the best use of radiation to kill tumor cells. In current radiation treatments, only a portion of tumor cells die, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Marlan O. Scully, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, was honored Tuesday with a reception celebrating his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences and was praised by a host of top university officials, including President Ray Bowen and Executive Vice President and Provost Ronald G. Douglas. The “Quantum […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Marlan O. Scully, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences during the organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Scully was one of 72 new members and 15 foreign associates from 10 countries chosen at the academy’s meeting this week in recognition of […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicists have devised a way to stop light, an accomplishment that could help develop super-fast computers, called quantum computers. “Slowing down light revolutionizes modern nonlinear optics,” says Olga Kocharovskaya, associate professor of physics at Texas A&M. “Utilizing the nonlinear properties of light in a medium is usually not easy […]
COLLEGE STATION — A Texas A&M University physicist is developing a technique to identify molecules on the surfaces of metals, which could have far-reaching implications in the control of chemical reactions in operations within the chemical and petroleum industries. “It is possible to get images of molecules today with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), but […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M physicists are devising computer codes and prototypes of quantum computers, which may be the next generation of computers. An ordinary computer may seem very sophisticated, but in fact, it is only programmed to gobble large series of ones and zeros and spit out other large series of ones and zeros. […]
COLLEGE STATION — From DieHards to Delcos, most car batteries are pretty much created equal: they eventually lose their juice. Two Texas A&M University physicists are looking into ways to keep batteries going and going and going, and finding answers that embrace both biology and chemistry. Their project also hints at something that has puzzled […]
COLLEGE STATION — A Texas-based theoretical physicist has been ranked ninth in the current publication of the Institute of Scientific Information’s (ISI) list of most-cited physicists and third in his field of theoretical physics. Dimitri Nanopoulos, a distinguished professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Physics and head of the Houston Advanced Research Center’s (HARC) […]
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