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First Direct Evidence for Supply of Lithium from Stellar Objects

A team of astronomers from National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Osaka Kyoiku University, Nagoya University, and Kyoto Sangyo University observed Nova Delphini 2013 (Figure 1, 3) which occurred on August 14, 2013. Using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) to observe this object, they discovered that the outburst is producing a large amount of lithium (Li).

20 Feb 2015

Dark Photons' May Not Be Linked to 'G-2' Anomaly

Scientists searching for signs of elusive “dark photons” as an explanation for an anomaly in a groundbreaking physics experiment have nearly ruled out their role. Though the postulated particles could still exist as carriers of a force affecting dark matter, it is increasingly unlikely these particles from the “dark sector” can explain the discrepancy scientists have seen between a precision measurement of the behavior of muons (cousins of more familiar electrons) and calculations based on the reigning theory of particle interactions.

20 Feb 2015

High-Speed Winds Connect Supermassive Black Hole and Nurturing Galaxy

By looking at the speed of ambient gas spewing out from a well-known quasar, astronomers are gaining insight into how black holes and their host galaxies might have evolved at the same time.

20 Feb 2015

Physicists Report First-Ever Observations of Higgs Mode in Superconducting Materials

The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Higgs boson - the "God particle" believed responsible for all the mass in the universe - took place in 2012 at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, an underground facility where accelerated sub-atomic particles zip around the circumference of a 27-kilometer (16.9-mile) ring-shaped tunnel. But what goes around comes around: more than 50 years ago, the first hint of Higgs was inspired by the study of superconductors - a special class of metals that, when cooled to very low temperatures, allow electrons to move without resistance.

20 Feb 2015

Physicist Proposes New Model of Atomic Nuclei

A new model describing atomic nuclei, proposed by a physicist from the University of Warsaw Faculty of Physics, more accurately predicts the properties of various exotic isotopes that are created in supernova explosions or inside nuclear reactors.

20 Feb 2015

Extraordinary Exoplanet May Be Slowly Boiling Away Under Intense Heat of its Sun

Exciting new research by astronomers at The Open University (OU) and the Universities of Warwick and Sheffield has opened up the chance to find out what distant planets are made of. The team of astronomers have made observations which can help reveal the chemical makeup of a small rocky world orbiting a distant star about 1500 light years away from Earth, increasing our understanding of how planets, including ours, were formed.

20 Feb 2015

Movement through Dark Matter Perturbs Comet Orbits and Increases Heating in Earth's Core

Research by New York University Biology Professor Michael Rampino concludes that Earth's infrequent but predictable path around and through our Galaxy's disc may have a direct and significant effect on geological and biological phenomena occurring on Earth. In a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, he concludes that movement through dark matter may perturb the orbits of comets and lead to additional heating in the Earth's core, both of which could be connected with mass extinction events.

20 Feb 2015

Generating, Characterizing Randomness Fundamentally Important in Quantum Information Science

The article by CQP Researchers Dr Jonathan Matthews, Beccie Whittaker, Professor Jeremy O'Brien and Dr Peter Turner; discusses how generating and characterizing randomness is fundamentally important in both classical and quantum information science.

19 Feb 2015

No Brown Dwarf Orbits Unusual Double Star V471 Tauri

Some pairs of stars consist of two normal stars with slightly different masses. When the star of slightly higher mass ages and expands to become a red giant, material is transferred to other star and ends up surrounding both stars in a huge gaseous envelope. When this cloud disperses the two move closer together and form a very tight pair with one white dwarf , and one more normal star.

19 Feb 2015

Black Hole Growth Somehow Influenced by the Invisible Hand of Dark Matter

Every massive galaxy has a black hole at its center, and the heftier the galaxy, the bigger its black hole. But why are the two related? After all, the black hole is millions of times smaller and less massive than its home galaxy.

19 Feb 2015

Quantum Physics News

First Direct Evidence for Supply of Lithium from Stellar Objects

Dark Photons' May Not Be Linked to 'G-2' Anomaly

High-Speed Winds Connect Supermassive Black Hole and Nurturing Galaxy

Physicists Report First-Ever Observations of Higgs Mode in Superconducting Materials

Physicist Proposes New Model of Atomic Nuclei

Extraordinary Exoplanet May Be Slowly Boiling Away Under Intense Heat of its Sun

Movement through Dark Matter Perturbs Comet Orbits and Increases Heating in Earth's Core

Generating, Characterizing Randomness Fundamentally Important in Quantum Information Science

No Brown Dwarf Orbits Unusual Double Star V471 Tauri

Black Hole Growth Somehow Influenced by the Invisible Hand of Dark Matter

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

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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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