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Efforts Ongoing to Enhance Qubits to Optimize Quantum Computers

For many years, scientists have speculated that someday, quantum computers will carry out challenging tasks like simulating complex chemical systems, which cannot be performed by traditional computers.

19 Apr 2019

Improving Quantum Computers

For decades, experts have predicted that quantum computers will someday perform difficult tasks, such as simulating complex chemical systems, that can’t be done by conventional computers.

19 Apr 2019

Novel Approach to Fine-Tune Persistent Luminescence of Phosphors Using All-Inorganic Perovskite Quantum Dots

The use of persistent luminescence phosphors in various technological sectors has led to increasing demand for achieving rational control over the emission profiles of the phosphors. However, to date, this remains a formidable challenge.

17 Apr 2019

Astronomers Discover Novel Way to Detect Neutron Star Mergers

An international group of astronomers, including alumni and faculty from UNLV, has come up with an innovative technique to detect collisions that take place between two neutron stars in faraway galaxies.

17 Apr 2019

TESS Discovers its First Earth-Sized Planet

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD 21749c, is the smallest world outside our solar system that TESS has identified yet.

17 Apr 2019

Quantum Dot Imaging Advances

Luminescing nanosized crystals are showing promise for peering deeply into body tissues, but first they need to be made safe. Investigations of ‘quantum dots’ for looking deeply into body tissues are rapidly evolving, but more work is required to ensure they are safe, according to a review published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

17 Apr 2019

Study Reports First-Ever Observations of Molecular Clouds in a Massive Star-Forming Region of Milky Way

The first-ever high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds inside a massive star-forming region of the outer Milky Way have been made by astronomers from the United States and South Korea.

16 Apr 2019

Information Related to Flow of Plasma Along Edge of Tokamaks Revealed

Vital information related to the way electrically charged gas called “plasma” flows along the edge of doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as “tokamaks” has been unearthed by physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

16 Apr 2019

Simple and Cost-Effective Technology to Increase Speed Performance of Automated Microscopes

A Russian-Italian research team with scientists from Moscow’s National University of Science and Technology MISiS (NUST MISiS) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Naples, Italy, have developed ...

15 Apr 2019

Quantum Localization Bounds Trotter Faults in Digital Quantum Simulation

Quantum computers exhibit the potential to solve specific computational issues exponentially faster than any classical machine.

15 Apr 2019

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals One of the Largest and Brightest Globular Clusters Ever Discovered

Although spherical clusters are perceived as innately stunning objects, the subject of Messier 3—the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image—is often recognized to be one among the most incredible of them all.

15 Apr 2019

Global Volunteer Computing Effort to Unlock Secrets in Gravitational Waves from Black Holes Collision

Scientists who hope to gain a better understanding of data from the detection of gravitational waves produced by the collision of binary black holes are seeking help from the general public.

15 Apr 2019

Supercooling of Water Inspires Researcher to Explore the Ability of Dark Matter to Trigger Supercooling

When Matthew M. Szydagis, an assistant professor of physics at the University at Albany, State University of New York, watched YouTube videos of supercooling a bottle of water and stimulating it to freeze by striking it, he got a concrete impression of this idea, particularly when he saw it again during the Disney movie “Frozen.”

15 Apr 2019

Researchers Use Quantum Mechanical Rules to Derive an Infinite Number of Quasi-Distributions

In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle proves to be an obstacle for an external observer intending to measure the position and speed, or momentum, of a particle at the same instance.

12 Apr 2019

Event Horizon Telescope Captures First Image of Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Distant Galaxy

The Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT for short, was specifically developed to capture images of a black hole. The EHT is a planet-scale range of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged via international collaboration.

11 Apr 2019

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Efforts Ongoing to Enhance Qubits to Optimize Quantum Computers

Improving Quantum Computers

Novel Approach to Fine-Tune Persistent Luminescence of Phosphors Using All-Inorganic Perovskite Quantum Dots

Astronomers Discover Novel Way to Detect Neutron Star Mergers

TESS Discovers its First Earth-Sized Planet

Quantum Dot Imaging Advances

Study Reports First-Ever Observations of Molecular Clouds in a Massive Star-Forming Region of Milky Way

Information Related to Flow of Plasma Along Edge of Tokamaks Revealed

Simple and Cost-Effective Technology to Increase Speed Performance of Automated Microscopes

Quantum Localization Bounds Trotter Faults in Digital Quantum Simulation

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals One of the Largest and Brightest Globular Clusters Ever Discovered

Global Volunteer Computing Effort to Unlock Secrets in Gravitational Waves from Black Holes Collision

Supercooling of Water Inspires Researcher to Explore the Ability of Dark Matter to Trigger Supercooling

Researchers Use Quantum Mechanical Rules to Derive an Infinite Number of Quasi-Distributions

Event Horizon Telescope Captures First Image of Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Distant Galaxy

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