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New Technique Maps Energy and Momentum of Electrons Beneath a Material’s Surface

For the first time, physicists have developed a technique that can peer deep beneath the surface of a material to identify the energies and momenta of electrons there.

17 Nov 2017

Lost Satellite Mission Offers Vital Information About Distant Galaxy Cluster

Data captured by a ‘lost’ satellite mission involving the University of Southampton has provided scientists with vital information about gases in a galaxy cluster 240 million light years from Earth.

17 Nov 2017

Common Plasma Wave in Space Responsible for Impulsive Loss of High-Energy Electrons

Scientists have long known that solar-energized particles trapped around the planet are sometimes scattered into Earth's upper atmosphere where they can contribute to beautiful auroral displays.

16 Nov 2017

Scientists Disapprove Existence of Axion Particle in a Wide Range of Masses

Scientists at the University of Sussex have disproved the existence of a specific type of axion - an important candidate 'dark matter' particle - across a wide range of its possible masses.

16 Nov 2017

Yale Scientists’ New Startup Raises Fund to Build Modular Quantum Computer

Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI), a startup founded by Yale scientists Michel Devoret, Luigi Frunzio, and Robert Schoelkopf, has raised $18 million in venture funding to build and sell the first practical and useful quantum computers.

15 Nov 2017

Astronomers Identify New Type of Energetic Explosion in Distant Galaxy

An international team of astronomers, including a University of Southampton expert, has discovered a new type of explosion in a distant galaxy.

15 Nov 2017

Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Wave Mixing on an Artificial Atom

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Royal Holloway, University of London, have demonstrated an effect known as quantum wave mixing on an artificial atom.

15 Nov 2017

Astrophysicists Find First Observational Evidence of Contracting White Dwarf

Astrophysicists from MSU (Russia) and his colleagues from Italy and Russian Academy of Sciences have found the first observational evidence for a contracting white dwarf.

15 Nov 2017

UMD Astronomers Use New Powerful Robotic Telescope to See “First Light”

A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky -- an event astronomers refer to as "first light."

15 Nov 2017

NASA's Early Science Observations Offer Insights on Supermassive Black Holes and Distant Galaxies

Astronomers around the world will have immediate access to early data from specific science observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will be completed within the first five months of Webb's science operations.

14 Nov 2017