Monthly Archives: January 2015

UBC’s SPIDER Telescope Seeks Big Bang’s ‘Smoking Gun’

UBC scientists are in Antarctica hoping to launch a telescope that will peer into the universe’s primordial light and reveal what happened at the very beginning of the Big Bang. The scientists, who are part of a team made up … Continue reading

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Grant Awarded To Alba For An Helium Cryostat

A grant has been awarded to ALBA Synchrotron, by the Spanish Competitiveness and Economy Ministry on the 2013 call for scientific and technological equipment and infrastructures to build a helium cryostat. This equipment will be specially designed to be compatible … Continue reading

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MESSENGER Uses Helium For Last Minute Reprieve

Now orbiting the planet Mercury after over ten years in space, NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is still functioning better than expected. Its mission will soon come to an end though – it’s running out … Continue reading

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Helium Droplets Doped with Sulfur and C60

Clusters of sulfur are grown by passing superfluid helium nanodroplets through a pickup cell filled with sulfur vapor. In some experiments the droplets are co-doped with C60. The doped droplets are collided with energetic electrons and the abundance distributions of … Continue reading

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The COLTRIMS Reaction Microscope Provides New Results For The Structure Of Helium Molecules

Frankfurt physicists have once again contributed to resolving a disputed matter of theoretical physics. Science has long since known that, contrary to the old school of thought, helium forms molecules of two, three or even more atoms. Exactly what helium … Continue reading

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