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Researchers Uncover Unexpected Role of Electrons in Creating Dancing Auroras

Thanks to a lucky conjunction of two satellites, a ground-based array of all-sky cameras, and some spectacular aurora borealis, researchers have uncovered evidence for an unexpected role that electrons have in creating the dancing auroras. Though humans have been seeing auroras for thousands of years, we have only recently begun to understand what causes them.

9 Oct 2015

Novel Miniature Particle Accelerator Prototype Utilizes Terahertz Radiation

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has built the first prototype of a miniature particle accelerator that uses terahertz radiation instead of radio frequency structures. A single accelerator module is just 1.5 centimetres long and one millimetre thick.

8 Oct 2015

SUNY Poly CNSE Awarded $380,000 to Develop Nanofabrication Instrument for Quantum Computer Systems

Supporting Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s high-tech investment strategy driving innovation-based research, development, and economic opportunities across New York State, SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) today announced that SUNY Poly CNSE Associate Professor of Nanoscience Dr. Mengbing Huang has been awarded $380,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the development of a novel nanofabrication instrument that could pave the way toward exponentially faster and more capable future quantum computer systems.

8 Oct 2015

Canadian Arthur McDonald Honored as Co-Winner of 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

Arthur McDonald, a professor emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., is the co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics. McDonald will share the prize with Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo.

8 Oct 2015

20th Anniversary of First Discovery of Exoplanets

October 6 marks the 20th anniversary of the first discovery of a planet orbiting a sun-like, or "normal," star beyond our solar system. The planet, called 51 Pegasi b, belongs to a class of planets now known as exoplanets. Since that momentous discovery, thousands more exoplanets have been found in our galaxy.

8 Oct 2015

UBC Members Contribute to Nobel Prize in Neutrino Research

UBC physicist and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory researcher Chris Waltham on the SNO’s quest, a colleague’s Nobel Prize, and UBC’s footprint in international neutrino research.

8 Oct 2015

Artificial Plasma Cloud Generated in Upper-Atmosphere to Validate 'Dressed Particle Scattering' Theory

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with numerous universities and government laboratories studying the effects of dusty plasmas -- charged dust particles that can occur naturally in the mesosphere -- generated an artificial plasma cloud in the upper-atmosphere to validate the theory of 'dressed particle scattering' caused by this phenomenon.

8 Oct 2015

India Becomes Full Member of Square Kilometre Array Project

India is now formally a part of the international project to build the largest radio telescope in the world, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to be co-located in Africa and Australia.

7 Oct 2015

Nobel Physics Laureate McDonald Began Developing the Neutrino Experiment at Princeton

Arthur B. McDonald, one of the two recipients of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, was a professor of physics at Princeton University from 1982 to 1989 when he began developing the experiment for which he received worldwide recognition Oct. 6.

7 Oct 2015

Skyrmions Found to Exist in Ultrathin Magnetic Layers and Multilayers

At present, tiny magnetic whirls – so called skyrmions – are discussed as promising candidates for bits in future robust and compact data storage devices. At the University of Hamburg these exotic magnetic structures were recently found to exist in ultrathin magnetic layers and multilayers, similar to the ones used in current hard-disk drives and magnetic sensors.

7 Oct 2015

Quantum Physics News

Researchers Uncover Unexpected Role of Electrons in Creating Dancing Auroras

Novel Miniature Particle Accelerator Prototype Utilizes Terahertz Radiation

SUNY Poly CNSE Awarded $380,000 to Develop Nanofabrication Instrument for Quantum Computer Systems

Canadian Arthur McDonald Honored as Co-Winner of 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

20th Anniversary of First Discovery of Exoplanets

UBC Members Contribute to Nobel Prize in Neutrino Research

Artificial Plasma Cloud Generated in Upper-Atmosphere to Validate 'Dressed Particle Scattering' Theory

India Becomes Full Member of Square Kilometre Array Project

Nobel Physics Laureate McDonald Began Developing the Neutrino Experiment at Princeton

Skyrmions Found to Exist in Ultrathin Magnetic Layers and Multilayers

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

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