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Lens in the Sky Amplifies Light from Supernova

An exceptionally bright supernova reported in 2013 is so luminous, a new study reports, because a lens in the sky amplified its light. The discovery of the lens settles an important controversy in the field of astronomy.

26 Apr 2014

Galaxy Magnifies Supernova Thirtyfold Through Gravitational Lensing

A team of researchers led by Robert Quimby at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has announced the discovery of a galaxy that magnified a background, Type Ia supernova thirtyfold through gravitational lensing. This is the first example of strong gravitational lensing of a supernova confirms the team's previous explanation for the unusual properties of this supernova.

26 Apr 2014

Researchers Demonstrate How High-Temperature Superconductivity Emerges out of Magnetism

Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time how high-temperature superconductivity emerges out of magnetism in an iron pnictide, a class of materials with great potential for making devices that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency.

26 Apr 2014

Coldest Known Brown Dwarf Discovered

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest "brown dwarf" known -- a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth's North Pole.

26 Apr 2014

New Physical Sciences Complex Opens at The University of Maryland

The University of Maryland's new Physical Sciences Complex is an instant architectural landmark with its shimmering elliptical atrium, and with its official opening on April 23, 2014, the state-of-the-art research building is poised to become a landmark of scientific achievement.

25 Apr 2014

RG Tools to Better Understand Relationship between Quantum Theory and Gravity

Perimeter Associate Faculty member Sung-Sik Lee is a condensed matter physicist – but he has his eye on quantum gravity.

25 Apr 2014

Spacetime May be a Superfluid

What if spacetime were a kind of fluid? This is the question tackled by theoretical physicists working on quantum gravity by creating models attempting to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.

25 Apr 2014

New Image Processing Technique Reveals Debris Disks Around Young Stars

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars in the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes database. These disks are telltale evidence for newly formed planets.

25 Apr 2014

Astrophysicists Discuss Implications of First Hard Evidence of Cosmic Inflation

The world was stunned by the recent announcement that a telescope at the South Pole had detected a cosmic fossil from the earliest moments of creation; During a live Google Hangout, 4 astrophysicists discussed the implications.

23 Apr 2014

Researchers Solve Mysteries of Nearby Planetary System

Mysteries of one of the most fascinating nearby planetary systems now have been solved, report authors of a scientific paper to be published by the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in its early online edition on 22 April 2014.

23 Apr 2014

Quantum Physics News

Lens in the Sky Amplifies Light from Supernova

Galaxy Magnifies Supernova Thirtyfold Through Gravitational Lensing

Researchers Demonstrate How High-Temperature Superconductivity Emerges out of Magnetism

Coldest Known Brown Dwarf Discovered

New Physical Sciences Complex Opens at The University of Maryland

RG Tools to Better Understand Relationship between Quantum Theory and Gravity

Spacetime May be a Superfluid

New Image Processing Technique Reveals Debris Disks Around Young Stars

Astrophysicists Discuss Implications of First Hard Evidence of Cosmic Inflation

Researchers Solve Mysteries of Nearby Planetary System

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

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