Physicist disentangles 'Schrodinger's cat' debate

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Physicist Art Hobson has offered a solution, within the framework of standard quantum physics, to the long-running debate about the nature of quantum measurement.



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NASA's Spitzer telescope celebrates 10 years in space

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Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four Great Observatories continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes.

via Science Daily

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Astronaut Gregory H. Johnson Leaves NASA

NASA astronaut Gregory H. Johnson has left the agency, after a 15-year career that included more than 31 days in space, for a position with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space.

via NASA Breaking News

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/august/astronaut-gregory-h-johnson-leaves-nasa

Silence in the sky—but why?

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(Phys.org) —Scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan have long believed that humans will one day colonise the universe. But how easy would it be, why would we want to, and why haven't we seen any evidence of other life forms making their own bids for universal domination?



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Cosmic turbulences result in star and black hole formation

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Just how stars and black holes in the Universe are able to form from rotating matter is one of the big questions of astrophysics. What we do know is that magnetic fields figure prominently into the picture. However, our current understanding is that they only work if matter is electrically well conductive—but in rotating discs this isn't always the case. Now, a new publication by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf physicists in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters shows how magnetic fields can also cause turbulences within "dead zones," thus making an important contribution to our current understanding of just how compact objects form in the cosmos.



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Embracing Orion

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(Phys.org) —This new view of the Orion A star-formation cloud from ESA's Herschel space observatory shows the turbulent region of space that hugs the famous Orion Nebula.



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New nanomaterial increases yield of solar cells

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Researchers from the FOM Foundation, Delft University of Technology, Toyota Motor Europe and the University of California have developed a nanostructure with which they can make solar cells highly efficient. The researchers published their findings on 23 August 2013 in the online edition of Nature Communications.



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Japanese candidate site selected for linear collider

In a press conference this morning, the site evaluation committee for the proposed International Linear Collider announced its recommendation: If the 19-mile-long, next-generation particle collider is built in Japan, it should be located in the Kitakami mountains of the Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.

Read more: "Japan selects candidate site for linear collider" – Symmetry

via CERN updates

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/08/japanese-candidate-site-selected-linear-collider

Happy Birthday, Red Supergiant Star Monocerotis Cards

Happy Birthday, Red Supergiant Star Monocerotis Cards

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A gorgeous card featuring a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis, in the direction of the constellation of Monoceros on the outer edge of our Milky Way. The image shows the swirls of dust spiralling across trillions of miles of interstellar space, lit mainly from within by a pulse of light from the red supergiant, two years into its journey.

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Coming Out Luck, Red Supergiant Star Monocerotis Greeting Card

Coming Out Luck, Red Supergiant Star Monocerotis Greeting Card

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous astronomy picture featuring a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis, in the direction of the constellation of Monoceros on the outer edge of our Milky Way. The image shows the swirls of dust spiralling across trillions of miles of interstellar space, lit mainly from within by a pulse of light from the red supergiant, two years into its journey.

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