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10/27/2015

New Research on Europa

Rod Pyle

Using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory's OSIRIS spectrometer and maps from NASA's Galileo probe, researchers have mapped what may be salt deposits from the ocean below the ice onto the Jovian moon's surface.

Europa, as imaged by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

10/26/2015

Physicists Uncover Novel Phase of Matter

Kimm Fesenmaier

It is not a conventional metal, insulator, or magnet. It is something entirely different and could hold the solution to a long-standing mystery related to high-temperature superconductivity.

10/22/2015

Astronomers Find Giant Magnets Inside Stars

Ker Than

Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized.

10/21/2015

Feynman's Nobel Year

Douglas Smith

Fifty years ago on October 21, 1965, Caltech's Richard Feynman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. The three independently brokered workable marriages between 20th-century quantum mechanics and 19th-century electromagnetic field theory.

10/18/2015

Cassini Begins Its Final Act: A Conversation with Charles Elachi

Ramanuj Basu

In September, the NASA/JPL Cassini mission began the last two years of the Solstice Mission. We recently spoke with JPL director Charles Elachi to gain his unique perspective on Cassini's achievements—and what will come next.

10/16/2015

Hitlin Awarded Prestigious Prize for Particle Physics

Lorinda Dajose

Professor of Physics David Hitlin has been awarded the 2016 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society.

10/15/2015

Physicist David Hsieh Wins Packard Fellowship

Kimm Fesenmaier

Hsieh is one of 18 new fellows identified by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as some of the nation's "most innovative early-career scientists and engineers."

10/15/2015

Robotic Astronomer Finds New Home

The world's only robotic adaptive optics system, Robo-AO, is moving to a new home: the 2.1-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

10/13/2015

A Passion for Entanglement