Modern research has found no simple, inexpensive way to alter a material’s thermal conductivity at room temperature. That
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A long solar filament stretches across the relatively calm surface of the Sun in this telescopic snap shot from April 27. The negative or inverted narrowband image was made in the light of ionized hydrogen atoms. Seen at the upper left, the magnificent curtain of magnetized plasma towers above surface and actually reaches beyond the Sun's edge. How long is the solar filament? About as long as the distance from Earth to Moon, illustrated by the scale insert at the left. Tracking toward the right across the solar disk a day later the long filament erupted, lifting away from the Sun's surface. Monitored by Sun staring satellites, a coronal mass ejection was also blasted from the site but is expected to swing wide of our fair planet. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
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Arts @ CERN, CERN's official engagement with the arts, is today announcing three winning art projects from the different strands, Accelerate @ CERN and Collide @ CERN, as well as launching the international open call for Collide @ CERN in digital arts. Now in its fifth year, Arts @ CERN has welcomed more than 70 artists to the Laboratory.
“In pursuit of its cultural policy, Arts @ CERN continues to bring ‘Great Arts for Great Science’, giving artists the opportunity to discover the universe of high-energy physics at CERN,” said CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer.
Accelerate @ CERN is a one month research stay at CERN, organized in collaboration this year with Taiwan and Austria. The jury of Accelerate @ CERN Taiwan, funded by the Ministry of Culture for Taiwan, made the award to a joint project from dancer Wenchi Su and digital artist Pei-Ying Lin, for their unique combination of dance and physics principles, where language and spatial interaction would be used in extraordinary ways. “CERN is the dream place I always wanted to go to, except I never expected to be there as an artist rather than a physicist,” says Pei-Ying Lin.
The jury of Accelerate @ CERN Austria, funded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery, selected architects Sandra Manninger and Matias Del Campo, for their focus on the notion of geometry. “Scientific insights have always been part of what influenced us as architects and designers, not only in terms of a technological aid, but as a cultural agent and catalyst for new spatial solutions,” said the two winners.
The winner of the Collide @ CERN Pro Helvetia artist residency programme is the collective Fragment.in, formed by Laura Perrenoud, Simon de Diesbach, and Marc Dubois. Their art deals with two realities: tangible and virtual reality. “In their proposal, Fragment.in has a unique, original and creative approach to data visualization. We look forward to having them at CERN,” said Monica Bello, Head of Arts @ CERN. Collide @ CERN is the three month residency programme providing artists with time and space to reflect, research and renew their artistic practice.
Following on from three highly successful years of partnership with Ars Electronica, Arts @ CERN launches today the open call for Collide @ CERN Ars Electronica, the award in which artists from any country are invited to apply for a residency at CERN. This call is open for digital artists, innovative concepts and ideas in the field of art, science and technology. The residency will be part of the "European Digital Art and Science Network" initiated by Ars Electronica with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the EU.
Online submissions open 30 April 2015 and close 23 June 2015. Apply here
A new procedure will enable researchers to fabricate smaller, faster, and more powerful nanoscale devices ─ and do
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Around midnight exactly one week ago, engineers at CERN broke a world record when they accelerated a beam
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This week, the Graphene & 2D Materials LIVE! Series of events comes back to Europe, with a conference and tradeshow in Berlin. Organized by IDTechEx, the Graphene LIVE! Series actively promotes cohesion within the graphene industry, bringing together key shareholders twice a year – once in Europe and once in the USA.
Graphenea’s Business Development Director, Iñigo Charola, will speak about “Advances in Technology Development for the Production and Applications of Graphene Materials”. Iñigo is speaking in the session “Scaling up graphene production: latest advances”, which is one of eleven topical sessions, that include power storage, applications and processes, latest science, transparent conductive films, conductive inks, structural electronics, and big brand perspectives with futuristic vision talks from the likes of Ericsson and Stora Enso.
In his talk, Iñigo will show why focusing on a few promising graphene production platforms will be key to develop successful applications and facilitate the use and performance of graphene materials. He will also outline what steps need to happen for graphene applications to succeed.
Apart from Iñigo’s talk, Graphenea’s presence is enforced with a stand where visitors can discuss our product line and exchange ideas.
This series of events has an excellent reputation for identifying key market leaders and stimulating fruitful networking, thus we expect the meeting in Berlin to open doors for new collaborations and partnerships.
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a method to increase the amount of electric
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A more effective method for closing gaps in atomically small wires has been developed by University of Illinois
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Measuring distance in the Universe is very challenging—you can't simply run a tape measure out to the Cosmic Microwave Background. What astronomers have done instead is find classes of objects that have a consistent brightness. By measuring how much dimmer than the expected value an object is, you can infer its distance. These objects have been termed "standard candles."
The most useful object for measuring great distances is the type Ia supernova. These supernovae are created when a white dwarf star reaches a specific mass, which triggers a thermonuclear explosion. Since the explosions always happen through the same process, it's thought that the light output is always more or less the same. Type Ia supernova have thus been used to measure the expansion of the Universe out to great distances. They're what were used to spot the apparent acceleration of the expansion, which led to the recognition that much of the Universe is composed of dark energy, a feature we know extremely little about.
Recently, however, a paper was published that suggests that these distance estimates may not be entirely reliable. The supernovae, it seems, are not quite as standard as we thought.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) have
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It’s the massive buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere that makes it increasingly likely we will
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Researchers at CSIRO, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and the Australian National University are working on tests for
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