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Assistant Professor Jamie Holder and collaborators first to discover very-high-energy gamma rays in the Cigar Galaxy

November 2, 2009 - An international collaboration that includes Assistant Professor Jamie Holder from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy gamma rays in the Cigar Galaxy (M82), a bright galaxy filled with exploding stars 12 million light years from Earth.

Hadjipanayis Lab reports on fabrication of rare-earth-cobalt magnetic nanoparticles at the International Conference on Magnetism 2009

September 30, 2009 - At a recent International Conference on Magnetism 2009 held in Germany, which has brought together leading researchers (including plenary talks by Nobel Laureates in Physics, P. W. Anderson, P. Grünberg, and A. Fert) in magnetism, strongly correlated electron systems, spintronics, and applications of soft and hard magnetic materials, Prof. George C.

New 'kolos' supercomputer can do 2.4 trillion calculations per second

June 15, 2009 - Through a grant from the Department of Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, a University of Delaware research group led by Krzysztof Szalewicz, professor of physics and astronomy, has acquired a new Dell teraflop supercomputer cluster that they have named “kolos.”

Magnetism in graphene nanoribbons can be probed by all-electrical transport measurements

June 10, 2009 - In a sequence of two Physical Review B articles, regular and Rapid Communications, the nanophysics theory research conducted by Nikolic group has proposed novel experiments to detect and utilize low-dimensional magnetism in graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges.

DPA balloon flying high over North Atlantic to measure cosmic rays

Instrument LEE and balloon being launched

May 21, 2009 - DPA researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field and payload instruments that are now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged particles in the universe.

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