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Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of a Planet in the Making

An international team of scientists in Australia and the United States has captured the first-ever images of a planet in the making. The accumulation of dust and gas particles onto a new planet - the process by which the planet continues to form and grow - has been directly observed for the first time.

19 Nov 2015

Researchers Could Have Determined Highest Concentration of Dark Matter

Dark matter is called "dark" for a good reason. Although they outnumber particles of regular matter by more than a factor of 10, particles of dark matter are elusive.

19 Nov 2015

New Way to Protect Electron Waves and Optimize 1D Materials

In certain nanomaterials, electrons are able to race through custom-built roadways just one atom wide. To achieve excellent efficiency, these one-dimensional paths must be paved with absolute perfection--a single errant atom can stop racing electrons in their tracks or even launch it backwards. Unfortunately, such imperfections are inevitable.

19 Nov 2015

More Precise Way to Control Desired Conducting Properties of Topological Insulators

The overheating of computer chips is a major obstacle to the development of faster and more efficient computers and mobile phones. One promising remedy for this problem could be a class of materials first discovered just a few years ago: topological insulators, which conduct electricity with less resistance and heat generation than conventional materials. Research on these materials is still in its early stages.

18 Nov 2015

Custom-Built SLAC X-Ray Microscope Enables Direct Observation of Magnetic Soliton

Researchers used a powerful, custom-built X-ray microscope at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to directly observe the magnetic version of a soliton, a type of wave that can travel without resistance. Scientists are exploring whether such magnetic waves can be used to carry and store information in a new, more efficient form of computer memory that requires less energy and generates less heat.

18 Nov 2015

Moore Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant to Explore New Ways to Create Advanced Materials Atom-By-Atom

New York University researchers have received a three-year, $2 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to explore new ways to create advanced materials atom-by-atom—with the aim of laying the groundwork for the next generation electronic devices.

18 Nov 2015

Novel Mechanism Could Help Prevent Instabilities within Plasma's Core

A team of physicists led by Stephen Jardin of the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has discovered a mechanism that prevents the electrical current flowing through fusion plasma from repeatedly peaking and crashing. This behavior is known as a "sawtooth cycle" and can cause instabilities within the plasma's core. The results have been published online in Physical Review Letters. The research was supported by the DOE Office of Science.

18 Nov 2015

New Physical Effect Could Provide More Evidence for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

A Florida State University high-performance computing researcher has predicted a physical effect that would help physicists and astronomers provide fresh evidence of the correctness of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

18 Nov 2015

Scientists Demonstrate Electron Transport through a Quantum Dot into a Metal

Scientists from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel have demonstrated for the first time how electrons are transported from a superconductor through a quantum dot into a metal with normal conductivity. This transport process through a quantum dot had already been calculated theoretically in the nineties, but scientists at the University of Basel have now succeeded in proving the theory with measurements. They report on their findings in the scientific journal “Physical Review Letters”.

18 Nov 2015

Radiation Could Have Made Most Earth-Like Planet Uninhabitable

The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation, new research led by the University of Warwick research has found.

18 Nov 2015

Quantum Physics News

Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of a Planet in the Making

Researchers Could Have Determined Highest Concentration of Dark Matter

New Way to Protect Electron Waves and Optimize 1D Materials

More Precise Way to Control Desired Conducting Properties of Topological Insulators

Custom-Built SLAC X-Ray Microscope Enables Direct Observation of Magnetic Soliton

Moore Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant to Explore New Ways to Create Advanced Materials Atom-By-Atom

Novel Mechanism Could Help Prevent Instabilities within Plasma's Core

New Physical Effect Could Provide More Evidence for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

Scientists Demonstrate Electron Transport through a Quantum Dot into a Metal

Radiation Could Have Made Most Earth-Like Planet Uninhabitable

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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