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Leading Theoretical Physicist to Present on Quantum Entanglement and Superconductivity at PI Lecture

Einstein described quantum entanglement as “spooky,” but Dr. Subir Sachdev has a different word for it: remarkable.

18 Sep 2014

Massive Planet Affects Behavior of Parent Star

A planet may be causing the star it orbits to act much older than it actually is, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery shows how a massive planet can affect the behavior of its parent star.

18 Sep 2014

Sorting Water Molecules: Separation of para and ortho water

Not all water is equal—at least not at the molecular level. There are two versions of the water molecule, para and ortho water, in which the spin states of the hydrogen nuclei are different. In the journal Angew...

17 Sep 2014

Pulsar Powers Luminous Gamma-Ray Source

Our Milky Way galaxy is littered with the still-sizzling remains of exploded stars. When the most massive stars explode as supernovas, they don't fade into the night, but sometimes glow ferociously with high-energy gamma rays. What powers these energetic stellar remains?

17 Sep 2014

Chemists Capture Images of Single Molecule Shifting from One Quantum State to Another

UC Irvine chemists have scored a scientific first: capturing moving images of a single molecule as it vibrates, or "breathes," and shifts from one quantum state to another.

17 Sep 2014

Most Galaxy Collisions Result in Disc Galaxies

An international research group led by Junko Ueda, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow, has made surprising observations that most galaxy collisions in the nearby Universe — within 40 million light-years from Earth — result in so-called disc galaxies.

17 Sep 2014

Leading Quantum Gravity Theorist to Lecture on Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe when he taught that space and time should be combined into a dynamical entity called “spacetime,” which is deformed (curved) by the presence of matter. Black holes are objects where this deformation is drastic, leading to a region from which nothing can escape.

16 Sep 2014

Scientists Explore Landscape of Absolute Zero to Probe Quantum Phase Transitions

Heat drives classical phase transitions—think solid, liquid, and gas—but much stranger things can happen when the temperature drops. If phase transitions occur at the coldest temperatures imaginable, where quantum mechanics reigns, subtle fluctuations can dramatically transform a material.

16 Sep 2014

Researchers Theorize Possible Solution to Preserve Theory of Supersymmetry

It was a breakthrough with profound implications for the world as we know it: the Higgs boson, the elementary particle that gives all other particles their mass, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.

16 Sep 2014

ESO Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer Helps Discover How Giant Elliptical Galaxies Move

New findings of how giant elliptical galaxies move have been discovered by an international team of astronomers using the newly installed Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) facility.

15 Sep 2014