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Researchers Identify Uniquely Huge Black Hole in Milky Way Satellite Galaxy

An extraordinarily massive black hole at the center of one of the Milky Way’s dwarf satellite galaxies called Leo I has been identified by astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory.

2 Dec 2021

Quantum Materials Strategy Launched for a Safer, Wealthier and Healthier World

The University of Adelaide has today, Wednesday, 1 December, launched its Quantum Materials strategy with its focus on cutting-edge fundamental research and delivering new quantum-enabled technologies for a safer, wealthier and healthier world.

2 Dec 2021

Measurements of Quantum Particles Yield Precise Outcomes in the Everyday World

There is a huge variation between the quantum realm and the regular world. Physicists Jasper van Wezel and Lotte Mertens from the University of Amsterdam and their collaborators have now analyzed how the act of quantifying a quantum particle converts it into an everyday object.

1 Dec 2021

Study Suggests Sun is Likely an Unaccounted Source of the Earth’s Water

Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source.

1 Dec 2021

Argonne Leads the Way Toward a New Quantum Future

The smallest bits of matter and energy are the building blocks of a radically new paradigm for sensing and relaying information.

30 Nov 2021

Quantum Sensor with Enhanced Precision Level Surpasses the Limit of Conventional Sensors

Precise data measurement and securing images and videos using highly sensitive sensors are crucial in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

30 Nov 2021

Heidelberg Physicists Demonstrate a Programmable Control of Spin Interactions in Quantum Systems

The forces between particles, atoms, molecules, or even macroscopic objects like magnets are determined by the interactions of nature. For example, two closely lying bar magnets realign themselves under the influence of magnetic forces.

30 Nov 2021

Review: Current State and the Future Directions of Quantum Nanoscience

The scale of investment in quantum computation, simulation and sensing is growing at a tantalizing pace. Harnessing the nanoscale to engineer useful quantum effects is a transformative capability of huge relevance to industries and governments.

30 Nov 2021

Scientists Gain New Understanding of How Time Flows in the Quantum Realm

A team of physicists at the Universities of Vienna, Bristol, the Balearic Islands and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-Vienna) has shown how quantum systems can simultaneously evolve along two opposite time arrows (forward and backward in time). The study has been published in the latest issue of Communications Physics.

30 Nov 2021

UCI-Led FASER Team Achieve First-Ever Detection of Neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider

The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, has achieved the first-ever detection of neutrino candidates produced by the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN facility near Geneva, Switzerland.

29 Nov 2021