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New Method to Optimize Fusion Energy by Controlling Edge Localized Modes

All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars must cope with a constant problem -- transient heat bursts that can halt fusion reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamaks.

18 Jun 2020

Researchers Detect Fast Radio Bursts from Unknown Source Outside Milky Way

A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away.

18 Jun 2020

Most Sensitive Dark Matter Experiment Shows Surprising Excess of Events

Scientists from the international XENON collaboration, an international experimental group including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo; the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo; the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University; the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University; and the Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, announced today that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events.

18 Jun 2020

Quantum Optics-Based Technique for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography

Researchers have shown that a detection technology borrowed from quantum optics can be used to perform optical coherence tomography with much lower light power than previously possible.

18 Jun 2020

New Study Paves Way for Solving Reactor Antineutrino Flux Problems

Joint effort of the nuclear theory group at the University of Jyvaskyla and the international collaborative EXO-200 experiment paves the way for solving the reactor antineutrino flux problems.

18 Jun 2020

New Technique can Send Information Quantum-Mechanically Between Two Nodes

Quantum communication--where information is sent through particles, typically entangled photons--has the potential to become the ultimate secure communication channel.

18 Jun 2020

New Way to Assess the Performance of Quantum Devices

University of Sydney scientists have adapted methods from robotics and autonomous vehicles to efficiently evaluate the performance of quantum devices—a crucial process to help balance the emerging technologies.

17 Jun 2020

New Table-Top Experiment can Help Detect Dark Matter

Ever since the 1980s, scientists have been conducting experiments to look for particles that constitute dark matter, an imperceptible substance that spreads across the universe and the Milky Way galaxy.

17 Jun 2020

Supernova Machine Simulates the Splendid Aftermath of Cosmic Blast

Nestled in the constellation Taurus, a spectacle of swirling cosmic gases measuring half a dozen light years across glows in shades of emerald and auburn.

17 Jun 2020

Quantum Many-Body Simulations Allow Accurate Model Calculations for Rare-Earth Magnet

A joint research team from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Institute of Physics at Chinese Academy of Science, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Beihang University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai, has provided a successful example of modern era quantum material research.

17 Jun 2020

Milky Way has Six Billion Earth-Like Planets

To be considered Earth-like, a planet must be rocky, roughly Earth-sized and orbiting Sun-like (G-type) stars.

17 Jun 2020

Raicol Crystals Awarded Grant to Develop Photon Source for Quantum Computing

Raicol Crystals, which manufactures unique non-linear crystals for use in the space, aviation, and pharma industries, will collaborate with Qubitekk, Inc. (Vista, California), which develops and manufactures a variety of products for Quantum networks and Quantum Key Distribution.

From Qubitekk, Inc. 17 Jun 2020