New Center to Improve Space Weather Forecasts miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As its name suggests, the newly launched Space Weather Operational Readiness Development (SWORD) center at CU Boulder seeks to offer a little protection for the planet, spurring research into the tumultuous environment several hundred miles above the surface of Earth.
Physicists and engineers at CU Boulder envision infrared astronomy telescopes that may one day span the entire globe syncing up observations from instruments spread across the continents, or even orbiting Earth, and giving scientists an unprecedented look at phenomena like the birth of new planets.
For nearly two decades, physicists at JILA have pioneered record-fast lasers that can fit on a table and have chilled clouds of atoms to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. With a new award, their work is just getting started.
CUNY ASRC Photonics Team Part Of A 30M NSF Center Established To Investigate New Frontiers Of Sound Science photonicsonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from photonicsonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.