An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its work in space.
Led by Germán J. de Valcárcel Gonzalvo, Professor of Optics at the University of Valencia, a research team including scientists from five countries has proposed a new theory—the coherent master equation.
Quantum physics has been making its way from the laboratory into the everyday lives of humans. Although quantum computers have hit the headline for solving problems that cannot be solved by classical computers, there are certain technical difficulties in bringing quantum physics into the real world.
The farthest dying galaxy found out so far includes more than a trillion stars and is more massive compared to the Milky Way.
CSIRO’s iconic Parkes radio telescope – fondly known as ‘The Dish’ – will get a new receiver that will significantly increase the amount of sky it can see at any one time, enabling new science and supporting local innovation in the space sector.
A team of researchers has experimentally visualized the concept of what is known as “self-organized criticality” in a quantum system, for the first time. The study holds implications to further develop quantum technology.
When the AlphaZero computer algorithm figured out how to beat the best chess programs developed through human expertise, after just four hours on its own, the chess world was astonished.
Optical sensing in the mid to long infrared (5 microns, or 5 µm) range has gained considerable significance in various fields, as it is a useful tool for gas sensing, environmental monitoring, food quality control, thermal imaging, in the pharmaceutical industry, etc.
Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a second planet orbiting the star closest to our Solar System, Proxima Centuri, which became famous in 2016 with the discovery of an ‘Earth-like’ planet in orbit, Proxima b.
A 17-year-old high school student has made a startling discovery a mere three days into their NASA internship: a new planet 6.9 times larger than Earth orbiting two stars.
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By David J. Cross, M.A
15 Jan 2020
In the constellation of Indus, a single bright star can be seen from the southern hemisphere, which has now offered innovative understanding about an ancient collision underwent by the Milky Way galaxy, early in its history, with another smaller galaxy known as Gaia-Enceladus.
The way energies of electrons differ from one region to another in a specific quantum state has now been mapped by a group of physicists with unmatched clarity.
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Presolar grains of dust taken from a meteorite that crashed into the Australian landscape over 50 years ago are thought to be among the oldest materials on Earth. Researchers ana...
By David J. Cross, M.A
14 Jan 2020
A research team, including several scientists from the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), has experimentally established the properties of nuclear processes in matter that is 25 times hotter and 10 million times denser than the core of the Sun.
An innovative type of detector that allows accurate determination of the oscillation profile of light waves has been developed by physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at LMU Munich and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ).