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Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Completes High Frequency Observing Campaign

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached a major milestone by extending its vision fully into the realm of the submillimeter, the wavelengths of cosmic light that hold intriguing information about the cold, dark, and distant Universe.

12 Sep 2014

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Has a Unique, Multifaceted World

High-resolution images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reveal a unique, multifaceted world. ESA's Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its destination about a month ago and is currently accompanying the comet as it progresses on its route toward the inner solar system.

11 Sep 2014

NSF Awards Grant to Study How Three Elements in Early Universe Became a Menagerie

In the beginning, all was hydrogen – and helium, plus a bit of lithium. Three elements in all. Today's universe, however, has nearly a hundred naturally occurring elements, with thousands of variants (isotopes), and more likely to come.

11 Sep 2014

Scientists Identify How Reconnection Transforms Magnetic Energy into Explosive Particle Energy

Magnetic reconnection can trigger geomagnetic storms that disrupt cell phone service, damage satellites and black out power grids. But how reconnection, in which the magnetic field lines in plasma snap apart and violently reconnect, transforms magnetic energy into explosive particle energy remains a major unsolved problem in plasma astrophysics. Magnetic field lines represent the direction, and indicate the shape, of magnetic fields.

11 Sep 2014

Two Simple Quantities Can Unify Quasar Phenomena

Quasars are supermassive black holes that live at the center of distant massive galaxies. They shine as the most luminous beacons in the sky across the entire electromagnetic spectrum by rapidly accreting matter into their gravitationally inescapable centers.

11 Sep 2014

Electrons Cool to -228°C When Passed Through a Quantum Well

A team of researchers has discovered a way to cool electrons to −228 °C without external means and at room temperature, an advancement that could enable electronic devices to function with very little energy.

11 Sep 2014

Astronomer Define 'Venus Zone' Around Stars

San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and a team of researchers presented today the definition of a "Venus Zone," the area around a star in which a planet is likely to exhibit the unlivable conditions found on the planet Venus.

11 Sep 2014

VLT Measures Lithium in Messier 54 Globular Star Cluster

The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters, which are balls of hundreds of thousands of old stars dating back to the formation of the galaxy. One of these, along with several others in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), was found in the late eighteenth century by the French comet hunter Charles Messier and given the designation Messier 54.

11 Sep 2014

Researchers Successfully Fabricate Single-Photon Sources of Silicon Vacancy Centers

The research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba, and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, succeeded for the first time in the world in fabricating single-photon sources of SiV centers which are one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond having high purity and crystalline quality by introducing them at extremely low concentrations. The results of this research have been published in Nature Communications 5, Article number:4739, doi:10.1038/ncomms5739.

10 Sep 2014

Companion Star to Rare Type of Supernova Discovered by Hubble

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a companion star to a rare type of supernova. This observation confirms the theory that the explosion originated in a double-star system where one star fueled the mass-loss from the aging primary star.

10 Sep 2014

Quantum Physics News

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Completes High Frequency Observing Campaign

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Has a Unique, Multifaceted World

NSF Awards Grant to Study How Three Elements in Early Universe Became a Menagerie

Scientists Identify How Reconnection Transforms Magnetic Energy into Explosive Particle Energy

Two Simple Quantities Can Unify Quasar Phenomena

Electrons Cool to -228°C When Passed Through a Quantum Well

Astronomer Define 'Venus Zone' Around Stars

VLT Measures Lithium in Messier 54 Globular Star Cluster

Researchers Successfully Fabricate Single-Photon Sources of Silicon Vacancy Centers

Companion Star to Rare Type of Supernova Discovered by Hubble

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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Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

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

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