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UNM Astronomers Observe, Measure Orbital Motion Between Two Supermassive Black Holes

For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a discovery more than a decade in the making.

28 Jun 2017

Sensors Expo 2017: SecureRF to Showcase Quantum-Resistant Asymmetric Cryptography for Low-Resource IoT Devices

SecureRF Corporation will showcase its quantum-resistant asymmetric cryptography for low-resource Internet of Things devices at Sensors Expo 2017

27 Jun 2017

Radioactive Elements in a Gaseous Supernova Remnant Provide Glimpses into Explosion of Massive Stars

Radioactive elements in gaseous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A provide glimpses into the explosion of massive stars

27 Jun 2017

Optomechanical Silicon Nitride Beams can be Used as Quantum Thermometers

Integrating the fields of mechanics and optics, Physicists have developed microscopic structural beams having a range of influential applications when irradiated by light.

23 Jun 2017

Quantum Coding Source May Allow Transport of Entangled Photons from Satellites

Due to the rapidly growing processing power of computers, conventional encryption of data is becoming increasingly insecure. One solution is coding with entangled photons.

22 Jun 2017

Astronomers Discover Massive Disk-Shaped Dead Galaxy

By combining the power of a "natural lens" in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

22 Jun 2017

Physicists Move One Step Closer to Functional Fusion Reactor

Fusion power has the potential to provide clean and safe energy that is free from carbon dioxide emissions. However, imitating the solar energy process is a difficult task to achieve.

22 Jun 2017

Researchers Develop More Accurate Density Function to Calculate Excitation Energies

Glow sticks, like those brandished by trick-or-treaters and partygoers, light up due to excited electrons of the molecules in the contained fluorescent dye.

21 Jun 2017

SDSC's Comet Supercomputer to be Key Resource in Most Advanced Dark Matter Research

The petascale Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the UC San Diego campus has emerged as a key resource in what is considered to be the most advanced dark matter research quest to-date, with a group of international researchers recently announcing promising results after only one month of operation with a new detector.

21 Jun 2017

New Evidence Suggests that Star's Birth Could Trigger Formation of Another Protostar

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found new evidence suggesting that a jet of fast-moving material ejected from one young star may have triggered the formation of another, younger protostar.

21 Jun 2017