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Rice Merges Rice Quantum Institute and Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Rice University is merging two of its multidisciplinary research institutes, the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the Rice Quantum Institute, to form a new entity, the Smalley-Curl Institute.

25 May 2015

Scientists Measure Intrinsic Angular Momentum and Parity of Sub-Atomic Particle Lambda

First identified more than 50 years ago, the sub-atomic particle called Lambda(1405) was routinely seen in experiments, yet two of its key characteristics were too difficult to measure. For the first time, scientists measured these descriptors, intrinsic angular momentum and parity.

22 May 2015

As Liquid Water Becomes Supercooled it Does Not Become Completely Unstable

Water behaves in mysterious ways. Especially below zero, where it is dubbed supercooled water, before it turns into ice. Physicists have recently observed the spontaneous first steps of the ice formation process, as tiny crystal clusters as small as 15 molecules start to exhibit the recognisable structural pattern of crystalline ice.

22 May 2015

Remote Galaxy Shines with Light of More Than 300 Trillion Suns

A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy found to date and belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by WISE -- extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs.

22 May 2015

Surprising New Clues About Hefty, Rapidly Aging 'Nasty1' Star

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it "Nasty 1," a play on its catalog name of NaSt1. The star may represent a brief transitory stage in the evolution of extremely massive stars.

22 May 2015

Giant Particle Physics Projects Discover New Decay Mode of Sub-Atomic Particle

Combining their experimental data in a collaboration including EPFL, two giant particle physics projects have discovered a new decay mode of a sub-atomic particle, which has been looked for during the past 25 years. This discovery severely constrains physics beyond the Standard Model.

22 May 2015

Advanced LIGO Project: Australian Scientists Begin Hunt for Gravitational Waves

Australian scientists are in the hunt for the last missing piece of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves, as the Advanced LIGO Project in the United States comes on line.

21 May 2015

Some Type Ia Supernovae May Arise from Single Degenerate Channel

Type Ia supernovae are violent stellar explosions that shine as some of the brightest objects in the universe. But there are still many mysteries surrounding their origin--what kind of star system they originate in and how the explosions begin.

21 May 2015

Early Death Throes of Supernovae Captured for the First Time

Scientists have captured the early death throes of supernovae for the first time and found that the universe's benchmark explosions are much more varied than expected.

21 May 2015

Supercomputer Simulations Help Observe Light Flash Caused by Supernova Slamming into Nearby Star

Type Ia supernovae are famous for their consistency. Ironically, new observations suggest that their origins may not be uniform at all. Using a “roadmap” of theoretical calculations and supercomputer simulations, astronomers observed for the first time a flash of light caused by a supernova slamming into a nearby star, allowing them to determine the stellar system from which the supernova was born.

21 May 2015

Quantum Physics News

Rice Merges Rice Quantum Institute and Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Scientists Measure Intrinsic Angular Momentum and Parity of Sub-Atomic Particle Lambda

As Liquid Water Becomes Supercooled it Does Not Become Completely Unstable

Remote Galaxy Shines with Light of More Than 300 Trillion Suns

Surprising New Clues About Hefty, Rapidly Aging 'Nasty1' Star

Giant Particle Physics Projects Discover New Decay Mode of Sub-Atomic Particle

Advanced LIGO Project: Australian Scientists Begin Hunt for Gravitational Waves

Some Type Ia Supernovae May Arise from Single Degenerate Channel

Early Death Throes of Supernovae Captured for the First Time

Supercomputer Simulations Help Observe Light Flash Caused by Supernova Slamming into Nearby Star

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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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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