EurekaAlert! Originally Posted: February 14, 2017 Astronomers are reporting a rare star as big — or bigger — than the Earth’s sun and that is expanding and contracting in a unique pattern in three different directions. The star is one that pulsates and so is characterized by varying brightness over time. It’s situated 7,000 light […]
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Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: February 7, 2017 This is an excerpt from a larger Dallas Morning News article. Pavel Nadolsky Pavel Nadolsky speaking at the Designing Integrated Systems conference last year in Hamburg. Pavel Nadolsky looks at Trump’s executive order from a mathematical perspective. Nadolsky, 47, of Dallas, is a professor of theoretical physics […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: August 31, 2016 James Cronin, a Southern Methodist University graduate who shared a Nobel Prize for explaining why the universe survived the Big Bang, died last Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 84. His death was confirmed by the University of Chicago, where he was a professor emeritus. No cause was given. […]
Washington Post Originally Posted: August 28, 2016 James W. Cronin, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering a startling breakdown in what was assumed to be the immutable symmetry of physical law, thereby helping to explain the behavior and evolution of the universe as a whole, died Aug. 25 in St. Paul, Minn. […]
Physics World Originally Posted: August 27, 2016 American nuclear-physicist James Cronin, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics with Val Fitch, died on 25 August, at the age of 84. Cronin and Fitch – who died in February last year – were awarded the prize for their 1964 discovery that decaying subatomic particles called […]
WFAA Originally Posted: May 18, 2016 IRVING, Texas — During Bryson During Bryson DeChambeau’s press conference before the AT&T Byron Nelson, the subject of physics came up, and how it applies to golf. Here’s part of his answer: “[…] especially Newtonian mechanics. See, quantum mechanics doesn’t really correlate — I mean, it does, on a […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: May 10, 2016 CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016 to get an improved understanding of fundamental physics. Following its annual winter break, the most powerful collider in the world has been switched back on. Geneva-based CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: April 26, 2016 A giant star that exploded 30 million years ago in a galaxy near Earth had a radius prior to going supernova that was 200 times larger than our sun, according to astrophysicists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. The sudden blast hurled material outward from the star at a […]
MyArkLaMiss.com Originally Posted: March 31, 2016 The College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University will host Dr. Jodi Cooley, international dark matter expert and associate professor of physics at Southern Methodist University (SMU), as part of the Wallace Herbert Memorial Astronomy Lecture Series. Cooley’s presentation titled, “Whispers in the Dark” will take place […]