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NASA’s IBEX Helps Determine Strength and Direction of Magnetic Field Outside Heliosphere

Immediately after its 2008 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spotted a curiosity in a thin slice of space: More particles streamed in through a long, skinny swath in the sky than anywhere else. The origin of the so-called IBEX ribbon was unknown – but its very existence opened doors to observing what lies outside our solar system, the way drops of rain on a window tell you more about the weather outside.

29 Feb 2016

MIT Scientist David Shoemaker Testifies on Importance of LIGO Before Congress

LIGO’s recent detection of gravitational waves marks the beginning of a new era for astrophysics, and further insights into black holes, neutron stars, supernovae, and other phenomena are expected before long, MIT LIGO Laboratory Director David Shoemaker told members of Congress this week.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Accurately Detect Structure in Innermost Region of Distant Quasar

A team of Spanish researchers, with the participation of the University of Granada (UGR), has accurately detected a structure in the innermost region of a quasar (small, very far objects that emit huge amounts of energy, comparable to that emitted by a whole galaxy) at a distance of more than five billion light-years from Earth.

26 Feb 2016

Dark Holes Could Contain as Much as 20% of Normal Matter in Cosmos

We live in a universe dominated by unseen matter, and on the largest scales, galaxies and everything they contain are concentrated into filaments that stretch around the edge of enormous voids.

26 Feb 2016

NSF-Funded Comet Supercomputer Helps Confirm Existence of Gravitational Waves

This month’s announcement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that scientists for the first time detected gravitational waves in the universe as hypothesized by Albert Einstein 100 years ago has opened up a new era of exploration for astronomers and astrophysicists.

26 Feb 2016

Researchers Create Atomically Coherent Quantum Dot Solids

A team of scientists from Cornell University have developed atomically coherent quantum dot solids, which are 2D superstructures fabricated from single-crystal building blocks. Years ago, single-crystal silicon wafers redefined the very nature of electronics.

25 Feb 2016

UCSB Research Team Aims to Reveal Hitherto Invisible Ultrafast Processes in Matter

When is a solid not a real solid? When it’s a lattice of ultracold atoms held in place not by the covalent and ionic bonds that bind the atoms of “real” solids together — like your chair or your cellular phone — but by light waves.

25 Feb 2016

NANOGrav Study Shows Existing Radio Telescopes Could Detect Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves

The recent detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) came from two black holes, each about 30 times the mass of our sun, merging into one. Gravitational waves span a wide range of frequencies that require different technologies to detect. A new study from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has shown that low-frequency gravitational waves could soon be detectable by existing radio telescopes.

25 Feb 2016

ATLASGAL Survey Reveals Cold Dense Gas Distribution Along Plane of Milky Way

APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope, is located at 5100 metres above sea level on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile's Atacama region. The ATLASGAL survey took advantage of the unique characteristics of the telescope to provide a detailed view of the distribution of cold dense gas along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. The new image includes most of the regions of star formation in the southern Milky Way.

25 Feb 2016

Research Reveals Type Ia Supernova Continues to Shine Brighter than Expected

Three years after its explosion, a type Ia supernova continues to shine more brightly than expected, new research finds. The observations, made with the Hubble Space Telescope and published today in The Astrophysical Journal, suggest that powerful explosions like this one produce a heavy form of cobalt that gives the heat from nuclear decay an energy boost.

25 Feb 2016

Quantum Physics News

NASA’s IBEX Helps Determine Strength and Direction of Magnetic Field Outside Heliosphere

MIT Scientist David Shoemaker Testifies on Importance of LIGO Before Congress

Researchers Accurately Detect Structure in Innermost Region of Distant Quasar

Dark Holes Could Contain as Much as 20% of Normal Matter in Cosmos

NSF-Funded Comet Supercomputer Helps Confirm Existence of Gravitational Waves

Researchers Create Atomically Coherent Quantum Dot Solids

UCSB Research Team Aims to Reveal Hitherto Invisible Ultrafast Processes in Matter

NANOGrav Study Shows Existing Radio Telescopes Could Detect Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves

ATLASGAL Survey Reveals Cold Dense Gas Distribution Along Plane of Milky Way

Research Reveals Type Ia Supernova Continues to Shine Brighter than Expected

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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4Breakthrough for Next-Generation Quantum Computing

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