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AAS Honors Cornell Astronomy Professor with Gerard P. Kuiper Prize

Peter Gierasch, Cornell professor of astronomy, an appraiser of atmospheres within our solar system’s distant worlds and a scientist on some of history’s famous space missions, was awarded astronomy’s prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on July 2.

15 Jul 2014

Physicists Harness 'Spin Current' to Speed up Data Storage

A hard drive stores bits in the form of tiny magnetic domains. The directions of the magnetic north and south poles of these domains, which are referred to as the magnetization, determine whether they are a 0 or a 1. Data is stored by changing the direction of the magnetization of the associated bits. At present this is done using a write head to create a local magnetic field, which makes a bit change direction.

14 Jul 2014

Scientists Discover Septuplet of Ghostly Galaxies

Yale University astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discovered seven celestial surprises while probing a nearby spiral galaxy. The previously unseen galaxies may yield important insights into dark matter and galaxy evolution, while possibly signaling the discovery of a new class of objects in space.

14 Jul 2014

Stars Form Like a String of Blue Pearls

Stars forming like a string of blue pearls along two elliptical galaxies could be the result of a galactic merger, according to an international team of astronomers. The structure could reveal rare insights about elliptical galaxies.

14 Jul 2014

New Technique for Measuring Age of a Star Using its Spin

Defining what makes a star "Sun-like" is as difficult as defining what makes a planet "Earth-like." A solar twin should have a temperature, mass, and spectral type similar to our Sun. We also would expect it to be about 4.5 billion years old. However, it is notoriously difficult to measure a star's age so astronomers usually ignore age when deciding if a star counts as "Sun-like."

14 Jul 2014

Hubble Captures Merging of Galaxies

The Universe is filled with objects springing to life, evolving and dying explosive deaths. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a snapshot of some of this cosmic movement. Embedded within the egg-shaped blue ring at the centre of the frame are two galaxies. These galaxies have been found to be merging into one and a "chain" of young stellar superclusters are seen winding around the galaxies’ nuclei.

14 Jul 2014

Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors with Decoupled Spin Charge Doping Mechanism Hold Promise for New Spintronics

Diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have received much attention due to their potential application in spintronics, or the storage and transfer of information by using an electron's spin state, its magnetic moment and its charge.

14 Jul 2014

Arecibo Radio Telescope Discovers Split-Second Burst of Radio Waves from Deep Outer Space

The discovery of a split-second burst of radio waves using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico provides important new evidence of mysterious pulses that appear to come from deep in outer space.

14 Jul 2014

Novel Method Estimates Uncertainties in Computer Calculations Used in Search for New Materials

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to estimate uncertainties in computer calculations that are widely used to speed the search for new materials for industry, electronics, energy, drug design and a host of other applications. The technique, reported in the July 11 issue of Science, should quickly be adopted in studies that produce some 30,000 scientific papers per year.

14 Jul 2014

Astronomers Monitor ‘Heartbeats’ of Baby Stars

An International team of astronomers using data from two space telescopes - the Canadian Space Agency’s MOST satellite and the French CoRoT mission - announced that they are able to monitor the “heartbeats” of baby stars.

11 Jul 2014

Quantum Physics News

AAS Honors Cornell Astronomy Professor with Gerard P. Kuiper Prize

Physicists Harness 'Spin Current' to Speed up Data Storage

Scientists Discover Septuplet of Ghostly Galaxies

Stars Form Like a String of Blue Pearls

New Technique for Measuring Age of a Star Using its Spin

Hubble Captures Merging of Galaxies

Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors with Decoupled Spin Charge Doping Mechanism Hold Promise for New Spintronics

Arecibo Radio Telescope Discovers Split-Second Burst of Radio Waves from Deep Outer Space

Novel Method Estimates Uncertainties in Computer Calculations Used in Search for New Materials

Astronomers Monitor ‘Heartbeats’ of Baby Stars

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

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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2New Device Enables Fine-Tuning of Information Flow in Qubits

3Circular Rydberg Atoms Extend Qubit Lifetime

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