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New Method Could Help Map the Universe's Ultraviolet Radiation

Astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultraviolet (UV) background of the Universe, which could help explain why there are so few small galaxies in the cosmos.

22 Mar 2017

Researchers Describe Pulsars as Extremely Dense Neutron Stars that Emit Beams of Radio Waves

What sounds like a stomach-turning ride at an amusement park might hold the key to unravelling the mysterious mechanism that causes beams of radio waves to shoot out from pulsars − super-magnetic rotating stars in our Galaxy.

22 Mar 2017

New Computer Simulation Helps Explain Existence of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

A new computer simulation helps explain the existence of puzzling supermassive black holes observed in the early universe. The simulation is based on a computer code used to understand the coupling of radiation and certain materials.

22 Mar 2017

SISSA Joins Simons Observatory Project to Study Origins of the Universe

The silence of an immense desolate land in which to search for reverberations coming from the time at which everything began.

22 Mar 2017

Scientists Demonstrate Existence of Entanglement Area Law in Real Quantum Liquid

A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behavior of black holes out in space—is also true for cold helium atoms that can be studied in laboratories.

22 Mar 2017

Quantum Dots Could Help Biophysicists Clarify Structure and Dynamics of Cytoskeleton

Biophysicists from Utrecht University have developed a strategy for using light-emitting nanocrystals as a marker in living cells. By recording the movements of these quantum dots, they can clarify the structure and dynamics of the cytoskeleton.

22 Mar 2017

ISU Physicist Researches Quantum Physics by Studying Atomic Collisions

A jumble of letters and numbers fills the computer screen. To an untrained onlooker, the lines may look like gibberish, but it is actually a computer code key to understanding the smallest pieces of the universe.

21 Mar 2017

New Feedback System Could Control Energy and Rotation of Plasma in Real Time

Like a potter shaping clay as it spins on a wheel, physicists use magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control and shape the plasma as it twists and turns through a fusion device.

21 Mar 2017

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 Captures Section of NGC 1448 Spiral Galaxy

This image from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a section of NGC 1448, a spiral galaxy located about 50 million light-years from Earth in the little-known constellation of Horologium (The Pendulum Clock).

21 Mar 2017

Star’s 'Death Spiral' Creates Shock Waves Far from Black Hole

Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy. Intense tides tore the star apart, which produced an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that first reached Earth in 2014.

21 Mar 2017

SJTU Researchers Detect Majorana Fermion in Artificial Topological Superconductor

The detection of Majorana fermion is one of the hotspots in the study of condensed matter recently. The research group in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) achieved great breakthrough in the detection of Majorana fermion in the artificial topological superconductor, which is the heterostructure of a normal superconductor and a topological insulator.

20 Mar 2017

Researchers Reveal Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum of Plasmons

A team of Israeli and German researchers from Technion in Haifa and the universities of Kaiserslautern, Duisburg-Essen and Stuttgart have been able to reveal for the first time the dynamics of the orbital angular momentum of plasmons.

20 Mar 2017

Quantum Theory Model of Humor Could Explain Why Jokes Seem to be Funny

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the ambiguity of the joke.

20 Mar 2017

New Discovery of Third Runaway Star Provides Strong Evidence on Breakup of Multiple-Star System

As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star war far away in the Orion Nebula.

20 Mar 2017

Researchers Demonstrate Quantum-Enhanced Machine-Learning Technology

Quantum computing will soon enter a new era of quantum supremacy, where quantum computers are expected to provide a better computational performance than classical computers, paving the way for new technologies and applications such as processing big data and designing new drugs.

17 Mar 2017

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New Method Could Help Map the Universe's Ultraviolet Radiation

Researchers Describe Pulsars as Extremely Dense Neutron Stars that Emit Beams of Radio Waves

New Computer Simulation Helps Explain Existence of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

SISSA Joins Simons Observatory Project to Study Origins of the Universe

Scientists Demonstrate Existence of Entanglement Area Law in Real Quantum Liquid

Quantum Dots Could Help Biophysicists Clarify Structure and Dynamics of Cytoskeleton

ISU Physicist Researches Quantum Physics by Studying Atomic Collisions

New Feedback System Could Control Energy and Rotation of Plasma in Real Time

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 Captures Section of NGC 1448 Spiral Galaxy

Star’s 'Death Spiral' Creates Shock Waves Far from Black Hole

SJTU Researchers Detect Majorana Fermion in Artificial Topological Superconductor

Researchers Reveal Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum of Plasmons

Quantum Theory Model of Humor Could Explain Why Jokes Seem to be Funny

New Discovery of Third Runaway Star Provides Strong Evidence on Breakup of Multiple-Star System

Researchers Demonstrate Quantum-Enhanced Machine-Learning Technology

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

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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 Challenge to Be Solved One Mile Underground

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