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Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole May be Producing Neutrinos

The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos. If confirmed, this would be the first time that scientists have traced neutrinos back to a black hole.

14 Nov 2014

Astronomers Solve Mystery of Why Compact, Young Galaxies Become Galactic Ruins

Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the “better to burn out than to fade away” credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young “starburst” galaxies — ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular hydrogen gas up to 100 times faster than our own Milky Way — would shut down their prodigious star formation to join a category scientists call “red and dead.”

14 Nov 2014

Researchers Uncover "Smoking-Gun" Evidence to Confirm Workings of Topological Insulators

Researches have uncovered "smoking-gun" evidence to confirm the workings of an emerging class of materials that could make possible "spintronic" devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies.

14 Nov 2014

Study Results Provide New Insights into High-Temperature Superconductivity

A study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests for the first time how scientists might deliberately engineer superconductors that work at higher temperatures.

13 Nov 2014

Texas Tech University Chemical Physicist Develops New Theory of Quantum Mechanics

A Texas Tech University chemical physicist has developed a new theory of quantum mechanics that presumes not only that parallel worlds exist, but also that their mutual interaction is what gives rise to all quantum effects observed in nature.

13 Nov 2014

Bustling Galaxies Create Stars at a Breakneck Rate

Peering deep into time with one of the world's newest, most sophisticated telescopes, astronomers have found a galaxy - AzTEC-3 - that gives birth annually to 500 times the number of suns as the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new Cornell University-led study published Nov. 10 in the Astrophysical Journal.

13 Nov 2014

Researchers Explore Qubits for Quantum Simulation on a Smaller Scale

While the Martinis Lab at UC Santa Barbara has been focusing on quantum computation, former postdoctoral fellow Pedram Roushan and several colleagues have been exploring qubits (quantum bits) for quantum simulation on a smaller scale. Their research appears in the current edition of the journal Nature.

13 Nov 2014