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Researchers Measure Global Magnetic Field of Solar Corona for the First Time

An international team led by Professor Tian Hui from Peking University has recently measured the global magnetic field of the solar corona for the first time.

26 Aug 2020

Innovative System can Help Develop Practical Quantum Computers

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have successfully developed a 32-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer register that works even at cryogenic temperatures.

26 Aug 2020

Study Shows How Ideas from Quantum Physics can Help Develop Novel Drugs

Published in Nature Physics, findings from a new study co-led by Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University teams show for the first time how ideas from quantum physics can help develop novel drug interventions for bacterial infections and cancer.

25 Aug 2020

Spinning Black Holes Release Powerful Magnetized Jets

Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light.

24 Aug 2020

Using Super-Slow Motion Experiments to Study Electron Movements in Liquid

To understand how chemical reactions begin, chemists have been using super-slow motion experiments for years to study the very first moments of a reaction.

24 Aug 2020

A Powder Method Shows Promise for High-Efficacy Evaluation of Electro-Optic Crystals

Electro-optic crystal shows great promise for extensive applications in laser, optoelectronics, and optical communication, such as high-speed E-O switch, modulator, deflector, laser mode-locking, photoetching, laser radar and so on.

24 Aug 2020

NASA Mission Could Unveil More Rogue Planets in the Milky Way

An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets - planets that float in space without orbiting a sun - than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.

24 Aug 2020

Hubble Captures the Closest Images of Comet NEOWISE

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky's latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun.

24 Aug 2020

New Research Reveals a Revised Age for the Earth's Inner Core

By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have improved the estimate of the age of our planet's solid inner core, putting it at 1 billion to 1.3 billion years old.

24 Aug 2020

Magnetic Tunnel Junction with Four Resistance States Could Power Novel Spintronics

A tunnel junction is a device in which an insulating layer isolates two conducting layers.

24 Aug 2020

Spin-Orbit Coupling in Rare Earth Ions can Help Manipulate Spin at Low Voltage

Maxwell’s equations, which are the basis of an enormous amount of contemporary technologies, have combined magnetism and electricity.

24 Aug 2020

Gadolinium Used in Super-Kamiokande Observatory to See Neutrinos from Ancient Supernovae

The Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory has the potential to detect various types of neutrino-related phenomena, such as supernova explosions in the Milky Way galaxy.

24 Aug 2020

New Quantum-Based Thermometer Can Precisely Measure Extreme Cold Temperatures

At Trinity College Dublin, physicists have come up with the concept of a thermometer that works based on quantum entanglement and can accurately measure temperatures a billion times colder compared to those in outer space.

21 Aug 2020

Long-Distance Quantum Key Distribution Accomplished with New Protocol

In an important step toward practical implementation of secure quantum-based communication, researchers have demonstrated secure measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) transmission over a record-breaking 170 kilometers.

20 Aug 2020