Physics and Astronomy News Archive: October 2006

Image: A boost for solar cells with photon fusion

A boost for solar cells with photon fusion

Source: Max Planck Society   Posted: 10/15/06

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have developed a process with which longwave light from a normal light source can be converted to shortwave light.
Image: Saturns Rings Show Evidence of a Modern-Day Collision

Saturns Rings Show Evidence of a Modern-Day Collision

Source: JPL/NASA   Posted: 10/15/06

Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spied a new, continuously changing feature that provides circumstantial evidence that a comet or asteroid recently collided with Saturn's innermost ring, the faint D ring.
Image: UCF, UCLA Astronomers First to Measure Night and Day on Extrasolar Planet

UCF, UCLA Astronomers First to Measure Night and Day on Extrasolar Planet

Source: UCF   Posted: 10/15/06

Astronomers have made the first direct observation of distinct day and night temperatures on a planet orbiting another star.
Image: Physicists make atomic clock breakthrough

Physicists make atomic clock breakthrough

Source: UNR   Posted: 10/15/06

Making atomic clocks even more accurate? That is exactly what the team of scientists from University of Navada set out to do.