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A Very Lopsided Explosion May Have Produced the G299 Supernova Remnant

Because the debris fields of exploded stars, known as supernova remnants, are very hot, energetic, and glow brightly in X-ray light, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has proven to be a valuable tool in studying them. The supernova remnant called G299.2-2.9 (or G299 for short) is located within our Milky Way galaxy, but Chandra’s new image of it is reminiscent of a beautiful flower here on Earth.

13 Feb 2015

The Planck Collaboration Releases Four Years of Observed Data

The Planck collaboration, which includes the CNRS, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the French National Space Agency (CNES) and several French universities and institutions, has today released data from four years of observation by the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Planck spacecraft.

13 Feb 2015

CERN COMPASS Experiment Reports Key Measurement on the Strong Interaction

In a paper published yesterday in the journal Physical Review Letters, the COMPASS experiment at CERN reports a key measurement on the strong interaction. The strong interaction binds quarks into protons and neutrons, and protons and neutrons into the nuclei of all the elements from which matter is built.

12 Feb 2015

Surprising Energetic Activity Observed in Otherwise ‘Boring’ Galaxy

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) found surprisingly energetic activity in what they otherwise considered a "boring" galaxy, and their discovery provides important insight on how supermassive black holes can have a catastrophic effect on the galaxies in which they reside.

12 Feb 2015

Multiple-Star System Observed During Earliest Stage of Formation

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest stage of formation. This finding supports model predictions about how two- and three-star systems form by University of Massachusetts Amherst astrophysicist Stella Offner.

12 Feb 2015

Quadruple Star System Forms from Filamentary Gas Cloud Fragments

An international team of astrophysicists has witnessed a unique event: for the first time, researchers have discovered the formation of a quadruple star system from widely separated fragments of a filamentary gas cloud in the Perseus constellation.

12 Feb 2015

BNL Begins Latest Round of Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

If you want to unravel the secrets of proton spin, put a "twist" in your colliding proton beams. This technique, tried and perfected at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a particle collider and U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory—orients the colliding protons' spins in a particular direction, somewhat like tiny bar magnets with their North poles all pointing up.

12 Feb 2015

Researchers Wind Light Wave into a Möbius Strip

Physics sometimes borders on light art. An international team headed by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) can easily compete with the light artists, at least as far as the skill of forming light is concerned.

11 Feb 2015

K-State Physics Professor to Receive Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

A Kansas State University physics professor has been chosen as one of the 100 researchers internationally to receive the prestigious Humboldt Research Award this year.

11 Feb 2015

New Experiment Uses Quantum Information Techniques for Precision Test of Lorentz Invariance

A new experiment conducted at the University of California at Berkeley used quantum information techniques for a precision test of a cornerstone principle of physics, namely Lorentz invariance.

10 Feb 2015

Quantum Physics News

A Very Lopsided Explosion May Have Produced the G299 Supernova Remnant

The Planck Collaboration Releases Four Years of Observed Data

CERN COMPASS Experiment Reports Key Measurement on the Strong Interaction

Surprising Energetic Activity Observed in Otherwise ‘Boring’ Galaxy

Multiple-Star System Observed During Earliest Stage of Formation

Quadruple Star System Forms from Filamentary Gas Cloud Fragments

BNL Begins Latest Round of Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Researchers Wind Light Wave into a Möbius Strip

K-State Physics Professor to Receive Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

New Experiment Uses Quantum Information Techniques for Precision Test of Lorentz Invariance

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

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