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Entropy Engine Employs Quantum Mechanics to Solve Entropy Generation Problem

Whitewood Encryption Systems Inc.®, a developer of next-generation entropy management systems, is pleased to introduce the Entropy Engine™, a new product that is the world’s most cost-effective, quantum-powered random number generator.

4 Aug 2015

Researchers Discover Powerful Jets Blasting from a Double Star System

A super-dense star formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion is shooting out powerful jets of material into space, research suggests.

4 Aug 2015

MSU Hosts Lecture by Renowned Astrophysicist on Black Holes

Award-winning astrophysicist and author Janna Levin will present a free public lecture, “From the Big Bang to Black Holes: Time, the Universe, and Everything,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Museum of the Rockies’ Hager Auditorium.

4 Aug 2015

Scientists Explain Puzzling Electron Heat Loss in Fusion Plasmas

Creating controlled fusion energy entails many challenges, but one of the most basic is heating plasma - hot gas composed of electrons and charged atoms - to extremely high temperatures and then maintaining those temperatures.

4 Aug 2015

Berkeley Lab is Key Player in Creating Sanford Underground Lab and Operating Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments

The Black Hills region in western South Dakota is known for its rich stores of gold and silver. In fact, 41 million ounces of gold and 9 million ounces of silver were pulled from Homestake Mine in Lead, SD between the 1870s and early 2000s. During that time, 370 miles of mine tunnels were created, reaching depths of 8,000 feet.

4 Aug 2015

Many-Body Localized State Observed Using Ultracold Atoms Trapped in Light Crystals

Using ultracold atoms trapped in light crystals, scientists from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and the Weizmann Institute observe a novel state of matter that never thermalizes.

3 Aug 2015

Spitzer Space Telescope Confirms Discovery of Nearest Rocky Planet

Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger than Earth and a potential gold mine of science data.

3 Aug 2015

Brown Dwarfs Successfully Create Powerful Auroral Displays

Mysterious objects called brown dwarfs are sometimes called "failed stars." They are too small to fuse hydrogen in their cores, the way most stars do, but also too large to be classified as planets. But a new study in the journal Nature suggests they succeed in creating powerful auroral displays, similar to the kind seen around the magnetic poles on Earth.

3 Aug 2015

A Third of the Stars in the Milky Way Have Dramatically Changed Their Obits

New Mexico State University researchers are part of a team of scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) who created a new map of the Milky Way that shows nearly a third of the stars have dramatically changed their obits.

3 Aug 2015

NASA Selects Five Proposals Submitted for Explorers Program

NASA has selected five proposals submitted to its Explorers Program to conduct focused scientific investigations and develop instruments that fill the scientific gaps between the agency’s larger missions.

3 Aug 2015