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NuSTAR Captures Images of X-ray Light Streaming from Regions Near Supermassive Black Hole

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.

13 Aug 2014

Neutrinos May Provide Clues About Nuclear Proliferation

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and even in the fictional world of CBS' “The Big Bang Theory” look to subatomic particles called neutrinos to answer the big questions about the universe.

13 Aug 2014

Rice Physicist Receives $1.5 Million Moore Foundation Grant to Study Quantum Materials

Thanks to a $1.5 million innovation award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Rice University physicist Emilia Morosan is embarking on a five-year quest to cook up a few unique compounds that have never been synthesized or explored.

13 Aug 2014

ALMA Captures 3D Images of Ghostly Atmospheres Surrounding Comets

An international team of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made incredible 3D images of the ghostly atmospheres surrounding comets ISON and Lemmon. These new observations provided important insights into how and where comets forge new chemicals, including intriguing organic compounds.

13 Aug 2014

New Solution for How Ancient Quasars Grew

A new model shows how early black holes could have grown to over a billion solar masses

12 Aug 2014

UT Arlington Physicists May Have Discovered Exomoons

Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, in recent years, but so far, no one has been able to confirm an exomoon. Now, physicists from The University of Texas at Arlington believe following a trail of radio wave emissions may lead them to that discovery.

12 Aug 2014

EPJ Quantum Technology Publishes an Overview of Quantum Simulators

Everything you ever wanted to know about quantum simulators summed up in a new review from EPJ Quantum Technology

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 12 Aug 2014

Application of Electric Field in Semiconductor Material Can Boost Efficiency of Spin-Hall Effect

UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials, offering a radical way to develop a new generation of electronic devices.

12 Aug 2014

Robust Approach to Certify Quantum Devices

An international team including CQT researchers has come up with a "robust and versatile" scheme for doing quality testing of quantum devices. The scheme is described in a 22 July paper in Physical Review Letters.

11 Aug 2014

DSIC to Develop Muon Tracking Detectors Solution for Recovery of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Complex

Decision Sciences International Corporation (DSIC), an advanced technology provider of security and detection systems, today announced it has been awarded a contract by Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) to support the reclamation of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear complex with the use of DSIC's revolutionary muon tracking detectors.

11 Aug 2014