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Researchers Determine Causes for Impeded Current Flow

Computers and other electronic devices account for a substantial portion of worldwide energy use. With today’s technologies, it is not possible to reduce this energy consumption significantly any further; chips in the energy-saving electronics of the future will hence have to be made from novel materials. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now found important clues in the search for such materials.

28 Jan 2016

New VST Image Shows Unusually Clean Small Galaxy with Very Little Cosmic Dust

Many galaxies are chock-full of dust, while others have occasional dark streaks of opaque cosmic soot swirling in amongst their gas and stars. However, the subject of this new image, snapped with the OmegaCAM camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile, is unusual — the small galaxy, named IC 1613, is a veritable clean freak! IC 1613 contains very little cosmic dust, allowing astronomers to explore its contents with great clarity. This is not just a matter of appearances; the galaxy’s cleanliness is vital to our understanding of the Universe around us.

28 Jan 2016

Unique Device to Trap Microbubbles Using Optical and Acoustic Tweezers

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has worked with University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford to develop an innovative system that can trap microbubbles. This enables scientists to study the bubbles' properties and develop safer, more effective medical products.

28 Jan 2016

Study Offers New Insight into Problem of Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters

Among the most striking objects in the universe are the dense, glittering swarms of stars known as globular clusters. Astronomers had long thought globular clusters formed their millions of stars in bulk at around the same time, with each cluster's stars having very similar ages, much like twin brothers and sisters. Yet the recent discoveries of young stars within old globular clusters have scrambled this tidy picture.

28 Jan 2016

TU Wien Scientists Succeed in Calculating Bose-Einstein-Condensates

Quantum objects cannot be understood simply as the sum of their parts, making quantum calculations complicated.

28 Jan 2016

Scientists Suggest Novel Method to Probe the Beginning of Space and Time

In a new study, scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and their colleagues suggest a novel way for probing the beginning of space and time, potentially revealing secrets about the conditions that gave rise to the universe.

27 Jan 2016

Study Provides Better Understanding of Atomic-Scale Behavior of High-Temperature Superconductors

A collaboration of scientists from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Osaka University, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute have published research clarifying the role of magnetism in a new type of high-temperature superconductor.

27 Jan 2016

Detecting Black Holes in Space

Imagine, somewhere in the galaxy, the corpse of a star so dense that it punctures the fabric of space and time. So dense that it devours any surrounding matter that gets too close, pulling it into a riptide of gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape.

27 Jan 2016

Researchers Uncover Connection between Internal Structure of Galaxy Clusters and Surrounding Dark Matter

An international team of researchers has found for the first time that the connection between a galaxy cluster and surrounding dark matter is not characterized solely by the mass of clusters, but also by their formation history.

27 Jan 2016

KALEXUS and FOKUS experiments test Einstein’s general theory of relativity in space

According to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, all bodies in a vacuum regardless of their properties are accelerated by the Earth's gravity at the same rate.

27 Jan 2016

Quantum Physics News

Researchers Determine Causes for Impeded Current Flow

New VST Image Shows Unusually Clean Small Galaxy with Very Little Cosmic Dust

Unique Device to Trap Microbubbles Using Optical and Acoustic Tweezers

Study Offers New Insight into Problem of Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters

TU Wien Scientists Succeed in Calculating Bose-Einstein-Condensates

Scientists Suggest Novel Method to Probe the Beginning of Space and Time

Study Provides Better Understanding of Atomic-Scale Behavior of High-Temperature Superconductors

Detecting Black Holes in Space

Researchers Uncover Connection between Internal Structure of Galaxy Clusters and Surrounding Dark Matter

KALEXUS and FOKUS experiments test Einstein’s general theory of relativity in space

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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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

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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4Quantum Observer Paradox: Extending Measurement Disturbance

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