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New Experiment Lays Foundations for Research on 'Spin Caloritronics'

An experiment at Tohoku University (Japan) in 2008 laid the foundations for research on 'spin caloritronics' - a field that aims to develop more effective and energy-saving data processing in information technology.

25 Sep 2015

Frustrated Magnets Produce Tiny Magnetic Vortices that Could be Used in Memory Storage

Theoretical physicists from the University of Groningen, supported by the FOM Foundation, have discovered that so-called 'frustrated magnets' can produce skyrmions, tiny magnetic vortices that may be used in memory storage.

25 Sep 2015

New Image Reveals Cosmic Landscape of Gas Clouds, Dust and Newborn Stars

The nebula pictured here may have had more names bestowed upon it over the ages than any other object of its kind. Although officially known as Messier 17, its nicknames include: the Omega Nebula, the Swan Nebula, the Checkmark Nebula, the Horseshoe Nebula and — lest those with more of a more marine bent miss out — the Lobster Nebula.

24 Sep 2015

Researchers Exploit Orbital Angular Momentum for Neutron-Based Quantum Information Processing and Imaging

It's easy to contemplate the wave nature of light in common experience. White light passing through a prism spreads out into constituent colors; it diffracts from atmospheric moisture into a rainbow; light passing across a sharp edge or a diffraction grating creates an interference pattern.

24 Sep 2015

Study Results Help Understand Quantum Entanglement in Light-Matter Systems

Just as in the well-known children's story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, something good happens when things are done in moderation, rather than in extremes.

24 Sep 2015

Professor Patrizio Antici Elected IOP Fellow for Contributions to Field of Laser-Generated Particle Sources

Professor Patrizio Antici of Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications at INRS has once again garnered international recognition for his work, having just been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) for his outstanding scientific achievements in physics, particularly in the field of laser-generated particle sources.

24 Sep 2015

Harvard Researchers Propose Using Radio Waves to Find Smaller and Fainter Stars

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is a mysterious place. Not only is it thousands of light-years away, it's also cloaked in so much dust that most stars within are rendered invisible.

23 Sep 2015

Engineers Develop Integrated Circularly Polarized Light Detector on a Silicon Chip

Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors that could expand the use of polarized light for drug screening, surveillance, optical communications and quantum computing, among other potential applications.

23 Sep 2015

Breakthrough Findings May Help Better Understand Lifecycle of Massive Stars

Observations using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that the unusually large magnetosphere around an O-type star called NGC 1624-2 contains a raging storm of extreme stellar winds and dense plasma that gobbles up X-rays before they can escape into space.

23 Sep 2015

NIST Experiment Confirms Quantum Communication is Feasible over Long Distances in Fiber

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "teleported" or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 100 kilometers (km) of optical fiber, four times farther than the previous record.

23 Sep 2015