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A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.

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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO

A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

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Richard and Paula Whited

May 10, 2011

UCSB Alumnus Richard Whited Establishes Endowed Chair in Interdisciplinary Science

April 4, 2011

UCSB Physicist Elected to Head CMS Experiment at Large Hadron Collider

March 7, 2011

New Instrument Keeps An Electronic ‘Eye’ on Nanoparticles

February 15, 2011

Three UCSB Faculty Members Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships

February 14, 2011

International Team of Scientists Says It's High ‘Noon’ for Microwave Photons

February 8, 2011

National Engineering Academy Elects Two From Santa Barbara

February 2, 2011

NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates; UCSB, Las Cumbres Scientists Play Key Role in Mission

January 31, 2011

UCSB Physicists Challenge Classical World with Quantum-Mechanical Implementation of ‘Shell Game’

January 13, 2011

International Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of the Universe; Physicists Play Important Scientific Role

December 17, 2010

Research by Physicists Honored as Science's 2010 Breakthrough of the Year

November 29, 2010

Tempest in a Teapot: International Team of Scientists Describes Basic Laboratory Science of Hurricanes and Other Swirling Natural Phenomena

October 4, 2010

Quantum Computing Research Edges Toward Practicality in UCSB Physics Laboratory

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