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USask Physicist Joins with UK Partners to Develop New a Quantum Magnetometer

As part of a new U.K.-Canada collaboration, a University of Saskatchewan quantum physics team will develop a highly sensitive and precise sensor for measuring magnetic fields, a technology of potential benefit for geological prospecting, medicine, and quantum computers.

11 Nov 2020

New Isotope-Separation Facility Used to Make Beams of Heavy Tantalum Isotopes

An international group of researchers has demonstrated the production of a purified beam of neutron-rich, radioactive tantalum ions.

11 Nov 2020

Astronomers Record First Direct Discovery of a Cold Brown Dwarf

Researchers of a collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF), both on Maunakea in Hawai‘i, have reported the first-ever direct observation of a cold brown dwarf using its radio wavelength emission.

10 Nov 2020

Scientists Investigate Short-Range Nuclear Interactions Between Protons and Neutrons

Atoms in a gas can seem like partiers at a nanoscopic rave, with particles zipping around, pairing up, and flying off again in seemingly random fashion.

10 Nov 2020

Tiny Device can Pave the Way for High Performance Quantum Computers

Bristol researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art.

10 Nov 2020

Tiny Device Enables Quantum Computers, Communications with Higher Performance

Scientists from the Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) at the University of Bristol’s, as well as from Université Côte d‘Azur, have developed a new miniaturized light detector that can perform in-depth quantification of quantum features of light like never before.

10 Nov 2020

Hidden Matter in the Universe Detected by Statistical Analysis of Historical Data

According to astrophysicists, nearly 40% of the ordinary matter that forms planets, stars, and galaxies stays undiscovered, hidden in the form of hot gas in the complex cosmic web.

9 Nov 2020

Galactic Bars Found to Generate Nuclear Starburst

A galactic bar is the roughly linear structure of stars and gas extending along the inner regions of certain galaxies.

9 Nov 2020

A New Technique to 'See' Elusive Dark Matter Haloes

A small team of astronomers have found a new way to 'see' the elusive dark matter haloes that surround galaxies, with a new technique 10 times more precise than the previous-best method.

9 Nov 2020

Research Reveals New Kind of Superconductivity

Superconductivity is a phenomenon where an electric circuit loses its resistance and becomes extremely efficient under certain conditions.

9 Nov 2020

Using Frontera Supercomputer to Perform First-Ever Simulation of Large Mass Ratio Black Hole Merger

Solving the equations of general relativity for colliding black holes is no simple matter.

9 Nov 2020

Scientists Study Quantum Spin Liquid Using a Unique Material

In 1973, physicist and later Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson proposed a bizarre state of matter: the quantum spin liquid.

9 Nov 2020

Playing Detective on a Galactic Scale: Huge New Dataset will Solve Multiple Milky Way Mysteries

How do stars destroy lithium? Was a drastic change in the shape of the Milky Way caused by the sudden arrival of millions of stellar stowaways?

8 Nov 2020

Largest Set of Stellar Chemical Data Will Solve Multiple Milky Way Mysteries

How do stars destroy lithium- Was a drastic change in the shape of the Milky Way caused by the sudden arrival of millions of stellar stowaways-

6 Nov 2020

'Unfolding' Techniques can Improve the Readout of Quantum States from Quantum Computers

Borrowing a page from high-energy physics and astronomy textbooks, a team of physicists and computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has successfully adapted and applied a common error-reduction technique to the field of quantum computing.

6 Nov 2020

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USask Physicist Joins with UK Partners to Develop New a Quantum Magnetometer

New Isotope-Separation Facility Used to Make Beams of Heavy Tantalum Isotopes

Astronomers Record First Direct Discovery of a Cold Brown Dwarf

Scientists Investigate Short-Range Nuclear Interactions Between Protons and Neutrons

Tiny Device can Pave the Way for High Performance Quantum Computers

Tiny Device Enables Quantum Computers, Communications with Higher Performance

Hidden Matter in the Universe Detected by Statistical Analysis of Historical Data

Galactic Bars Found to Generate Nuclear Starburst

A New Technique to 'See' Elusive Dark Matter Haloes

Research Reveals New Kind of Superconductivity

Using Frontera Supercomputer to Perform First-Ever Simulation of Large Mass Ratio Black Hole Merger

Scientists Study Quantum Spin Liquid Using a Unique Material

Playing Detective on a Galactic Scale: Huge New Dataset will Solve Multiple Milky Way Mysteries

Largest Set of Stellar Chemical Data Will Solve Multiple Milky Way Mysteries

'Unfolding' Techniques can Improve the Readout of Quantum States from Quantum Computers

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How Regional Quantum Hubs Could Accelerate Commercialization in the US

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