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SFU Physicists Explore Nature of Antihydrogen Atoms

Simon Fraser University physics professor Mike Hayden and PhD student Justine Munich are part of the ALPHA Collaboration, an international team that has recently shone light on antimatter—literally.

31 Jan 2017

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Identifies Five Most Farthest Blazars

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes

31 Jan 2017

First Observational Evidence Reveals that Universe Could be a Hologram

The first observational evidence that the universe could be a hologram has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

31 Jan 2017

Scientist Discovers Physics Involved in Etching of Silicon Computer Chips

The physics involved in making the etching of silicon computer chips possible has been partially uncovered by Physicist Igor Kaganovich at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) together with collaborators.

30 Jan 2017

German DFG Grants Support for Development of Pulsed Positron Source

The German research foundation DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has granted 750,000 euros for the research project “Creation of intense positron pulses on NEPOMUC” under its program “New Instrumentation for Research”.

27 Jan 2017

Whitewood Receives Quantum Key Management Patent from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Whitewood, a developer of solutions focused on improving the use of cryptography, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted a new patent entitled, Quantum Key Management.

27 Jan 2017

Physicists Turn One-Dimensional Chain of Ytterbium Ions into Time Crystal

To most people, crystals mean diamond bling, semiprecious gems or perhaps the jagged amethyst or quartz crystals beloved by collectors.

27 Jan 2017

New EEGGL Tool Helps Simulate Magnetically Structured Clouds of Solar Storms

The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth – the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through – can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles, out into space.

27 Jan 2017

Universe is Expanding Faster than Expected, Finds NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made an independent measurement of how fast the Universe is expanding.

27 Jan 2017

LSU Physicist Gabriela González Receives 2017 Rossi Prize for Direct Detections of Gravitational Waves

The 2017 Rossi Prize has been awarded to Gabriela González and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for the first direct detections of gravitational waves, for the discovery of merging black hole binaries and for beginning the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy.

27 Jan 2017

Researchers Develop Revolutionizing Technology for Light-based Quantum Networks

Advanced photonic nanostructures are well on their way to revolutionising quantum technology for quantum networks based on light.

27 Jan 2017

New Research Holds Exciting Implications for Fast and Secure Quantum Communication in Future

New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has exciting implications for fast and secure data transfer in the future and will aid technological advances that seek to establish more secure quantum communication links over long distances.

25 Jan 2017

PPPL Scientists Explore Mechanism Behind Onset of Magnetic Reconnection

Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published a paper showing that magnetic reconnection — the process in which magnetic field lines snap together and release energy — can be triggered by motion in nearby magnetic fields.

24 Jan 2017

Astronomers Discover Seven Distinct Groups of Dwarf Galaxies with Ideal Conditions to Form Larger Galaxies

Dwarf galaxies, nuggets of stars and gas 100 to 1,000 times smaller than the Milky Way, are thought to be the building blocks of massive galaxies. Evidence for groups of merging dwarf galaxies, however, has been lacking, until now.

24 Jan 2017

Quantum Optical Sensors Could be Operated in Space

For the first time ever, a cloud of ultra-cold atoms has been successfully created in space on board of a sounding rocket.

24 Jan 2017

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SFU Physicists Explore Nature of Antihydrogen Atoms

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Identifies Five Most Farthest Blazars

First Observational Evidence Reveals that Universe Could be a Hologram

Scientist Discovers Physics Involved in Etching of Silicon Computer Chips

German DFG Grants Support for Development of Pulsed Positron Source

Whitewood Receives Quantum Key Management Patent from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Physicists Turn One-Dimensional Chain of Ytterbium Ions into Time Crystal

New EEGGL Tool Helps Simulate Magnetically Structured Clouds of Solar Storms

Universe is Expanding Faster than Expected, Finds NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

LSU Physicist Gabriela González Receives 2017 Rossi Prize for Direct Detections of Gravitational Waves

Researchers Develop Revolutionizing Technology for Light-based Quantum Networks

New Research Holds Exciting Implications for Fast and Secure Quantum Communication in Future

PPPL Scientists Explore Mechanism Behind Onset of Magnetic Reconnection

Astronomers Discover Seven Distinct Groups of Dwarf Galaxies with Ideal Conditions to Form Larger Galaxies

Quantum Optical Sensors Could be Operated in Space

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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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2New Discovery Links ORC Formation to Merging Galaxy Clusters

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