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European XFEL's Superconducting Particle Accelerator Goes into Operation

Accelerated electrons have passed through the complete 2.1 kilometre length of the accelerator tunnel.

20 Apr 2017

New Exoplanet Discovered in Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf Star

The newly discovered super-Earth LHS 1140b orbits in the habitable zone around a faint red dwarf star, named LHS 1140, in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster).

20 Apr 2017

Astronomers Identify and Characterize 82 New High-Mass Binary Star Systems

In addition to solo stars like our Sun, the universe contains binary systems comprising two massive stars that interact with each other.

20 Apr 2017

UC Physicist to Explore Theories that Might Reveal Particles Smaller than Quarks

Quarks are the smallest things in the known universe — particles that make up the protons and neutrons of atoms.

18 Apr 2017

New Research Provides Key Insights into the Structure of Dark Matter Halos

Research from the University of Pennsylvania could shed light on the distribution of one of the most mysterious substances in the universe.

18 Apr 2017

Astronomers Find Two Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes

Three years ago, a University of Utah-led team discovered that an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy contained a supermassive black hole, then the smallest known galaxy to harbor such a giant black hole.

18 Apr 2017

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 Captures NGC 4536

The formation and evolution of galaxies are yet to be completely understood, however, the conditions observed within specific galaxies, such as starburst galaxies, can explain a lot about how the galaxies evolved over time.

17 Apr 2017

Scientists Find Strongly Nonlinear Systems can Reach Full Equilibrium

In physics, the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem — which found that certain nonlinear systems do not disperse their energy, but rather return to their initial excited states — has been a challenge that scientists have tackled repeatedly since 1955.

17 Apr 2017

Researchers Show Atomically Thin Materials can be True Superconductors

A new atomically thin material similar to graphene has been proven to be a promising new superconductive material.

13 Apr 2017

Future Precision Sensing Technology Would Exploit Unusual Effects of Quantum Mechanics

Next-generation sensors to be used in fields as diverse as mineral exploration and climate change will be turbo boosted thanks to University of Queensland and University of Sussex research.

13 Apr 2017

Goethe University Frankfurt Contributes to the International Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

As part of the collaboration "BlackHoleCam" the research group of Prof. Luciano Rezzolla of Goethe University Frankfurt contributes to the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is imagining for the first time the black-hole candidate at the Center of our Milky Way.

13 Apr 2017

Spectacular Measurement of Decay of Beauty Meson into Muon-Anti-Muon Pair

All physical theories are to a greater or lesser extent, but always only simplified representations of reality and, as a consequence, have a specified range of applicability.

13 Apr 2017

Physicists Explore an Interacting Fermion System with Spin Population Imbalance

Fermions are ubiquitous elementary particles. They span from electrons in metals, to protons and neutrons in nuclei and to quarks at the sub-nuclear level.

13 Apr 2017

First Composite Image of a Dark Matter Bridge Connecting Galaxies Together

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together.

13 Apr 2017

Study on the Improvements in Quantum Image Processing

A comprehensive review on quantum image processing entitled, "Quantum image processing: A review of advances in its security technologies", has been published in World-Scientific-International Journal of Quantum Information by Dr. Fei Yan, a young researcher in Changchun University of Science and Technology.

12 Apr 2017

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European XFEL's Superconducting Particle Accelerator Goes into Operation

New Exoplanet Discovered in Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf Star

Astronomers Identify and Characterize 82 New High-Mass Binary Star Systems

UC Physicist to Explore Theories that Might Reveal Particles Smaller than Quarks

New Research Provides Key Insights into the Structure of Dark Matter Halos

Astronomers Find Two Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 Captures NGC 4536

Scientists Find Strongly Nonlinear Systems can Reach Full Equilibrium

Researchers Show Atomically Thin Materials can be True Superconductors

Future Precision Sensing Technology Would Exploit Unusual Effects of Quantum Mechanics

Goethe University Frankfurt Contributes to the International Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Spectacular Measurement of Decay of Beauty Meson into Muon-Anti-Muon Pair

Physicists Explore an Interacting Fermion System with Spin Population Imbalance

First Composite Image of a Dark Matter Bridge Connecting Galaxies Together

Study on the Improvements in Quantum Image Processing

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

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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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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