The active satellites currently orbiting Earth have to be careful not to hit the 9,500 tons of debris in space, as well as spacecraft like the International Space Station (ISS). Astroscale has been operating its ELSA-d mission to demonstrate a proof of concept for its ELSA technology, removing space debris from orbit.
By Ben Pilkington
8 Oct 2021
The XENON1T experiment, designed to detect dark matter, may have detected dark energy instead.
AZoQuantum talks to Dr. Kevin France, a professor in the astrophysical and planetary sciences department at the University of Colorado, about his role as the Principal Investigator of the NASA-supported CUTE small satellite mission.
By Skyla Baily
5 Oct 2021
AZoQuantum speaks with Jennifer Burt, Jennifer is part of an international team of astronomers that have discovered an exoplanet, known as TOI-1231 b. The exoplanet is a roughly Neptune-sized planet that has been determined as having a cool atmosphere, which completes an orbit of its parent star in just 24 days.
By Joan Nugent
22 Jun 2021
AZoQuantum speaks with Dr. Allison N. Jaynes from the University of Iowa. Allison is part of a group of physicists who have found a previously undiscovered phenomenon called ‘diffuse auroral erasers’ while analyzing a video of auroras recorded in 2002.
By Joan Nugent
8 Jun 2021
AZoQuantum speaks with Sabine Stanley and Chi Yan from Johns Hopkins University. Simulations of the interior of Saturn, created by the researchers, have revealed a connection between the planet’s magnetic field and its thick shell of helium rain.
By Joan Nugent
13 May 2021
The Zurich Instruments SHFSG Signal Generator can be used to generate freely programmable pulse sequences, specifically designed for controlling superconducting and spin qubits
The key to establishing ever more powerful quantum computers, such as Google’s Sycamore, lies in understanding entanglement. New research shows that this phenomenon, once described as ‘spooky action at a distance’ by Einstein, is not a factor of contact, but of identity.
By Robert Lea
15 Jun 2020
Researchers from Brazil’s Nuclear Engineering Institute recently became the first to attempt to apply graphene quantum dots (GQDs) to the treatment of low-level liquid radioactive waste.
By Andrew Messios
3 Jun 2020
Sterile neutrinos are currently the leading candidate for dark matter. However, tell-tale signatures of their decay have so far failed to be detected.
By Robert Lea
26 May 2020