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Researchers Create Largest Simulation of the Universe Using Supercomputer

Researchers from the University of Zurich have simulated the formation of our entire Universe with a large supercomputer. A gigantic catalogue of about 25 billion virtual galaxies has been generated from 2 trillion digital particles.

12 Jun 2017

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Slow Waltz of Two Brown Dwarfs

This seemingly unspectacular series of dots with varying distances between them actually shows the slow waltz of two brown dwarfs. The image is a stack of 12 images made over the course of three years with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

12 Jun 2017

UW Graduate Student Receives Quantum Mechanics Fellowship

A University of Wyoming Graduate Student, Josh Heiner has been given a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship that is taking him to New Zealand this summer to explore quantum mechanics.

9 Jun 2017

Researchers Use Light to See the Quantum Nature of Electronic Materials

The concept of using light to “see” the quantum nature of an electronic material has been studied by Researchers.

9 Jun 2017

Researchers Run 30 Simulations of Milky Ways to Uncover the History of Galaxies

Thousands of processors, terabytes of data, and months of computing time have helped a group of researchers in Germany create some of the largest and highest resolution simulations ever made of galaxies like our Milky Way.

9 Jun 2017

Three Experiments Report Signs of Phenomenon that Goes Beyond Standard Model of Particle Physics

To anyone but a physicist, it sounds like something out of “Star Trek.” But lepton universality is a real thing.

9 Jun 2017

Neutron Scattering Provides New Insights into Exotic Magnetic Behavior of Graphene-Like Honeycomb Material

Neutron scattering has revealed in unprecedented detail new insights into the exotic magnetic behavior of a material that, with a fuller understanding, could pave the way for quantum calculations far beyond the limits of the ones and zeros of a computer’s binary code.

9 Jun 2017