Published Thu, May 22, 2014
The International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) received last May 20 the neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro, director of the UFRN´s Brain Institute, a Latin American reference in research and innovation. On the occasion, Professor Ribeiro presented... Published Mon, May 12, 2014
The school on "Challenges in Modern Cosmology: Dark Matter and Dark Energy" came to an end last May 9th, after a week of presentations and debates on the issue that gained notoriety in the media recently: the study of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The event, organized by the International Institute... Published Thu, May 08, 2014
Neutrons bouncing in Earth´s gravity are helping to shed light on two of the greatest mysteries in the universe, dark matter and dark energy, researchers say.
Dark matter is an invisible substance thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe. The strength of its gravitational pull... Published Wed, May 07, 2014
A theoretical physicist has explained a way to capture particles of light called photons, even at room temperature, a feat thought only possible at bone-chillingly cold temperatures.
Alex Kruchkov, a doctoral student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), has built the first... Published Tue, May 06, 2014
We regret to inform that, since last Friday, our institutional webmail service is facing critical problems in its server, located in the University campus. The UFRN IT team is working to solve this problem and expects to have a solution by today. Meanwhile, the IIP administrative staff will be... Published Fri, May 02, 2014
Dark matter, the invisible and mysterious stuff that makes up most of the material universe, might be hiding itself in microscopic black holes, says a team of Russian astrophysicists.
No one knows what dark matter is. But scientists do know that it must exist, because there is not enough visible...  |  |  |  |  |  |  |