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Curtin University Crater Hunters Score Meteoric Hole-In-One

Curtin University planetary scientists have announced the discovery of two new large cosmic ‘hole-in-one’ meteorite impact structures, located in Western Australia and Central America.

5 Mar 2019

Physicists Propose Experiment for Observing Fractionalization in Ultracold Atoms

Matthew Foster and Seth Davis ’15, physicists at Rice University, intend to take a completely fresh look of an exasperating quantum puzzle. All they need is a suitable vantage point and a place that is colder than deep space.

5 Mar 2019

Novel Cryptography Circuit for Making IoT Secure in the Evolving Quantum Age

Researchers at MIT have created an innovative cryptography circuit, using which low-power “internet of things” (IoT) devices can be protected in the evolving quantum computing age.

4 Mar 2019

Scientists Successfully Guide Positrons into a Magnetic Field Trap

Researchers have succeeded in luring the antiparticles of electrons—positrons—into a magnetic field trap, for the first time. The team included scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

1 Mar 2019

Quantum Computers Improved by Using Codes to Detect and Eliminate Errors

For the first time, researchers from the University of Sydney have been able to improve quantum computers by using codes developed to detect and eliminate errors in the logic gates of such machines.

1 Mar 2019

Progressing Secure Exchange of Information Using Quantum Communication

Hunting for a higher order of security during data transmission, governments and other organizations worldwide are investing in and building technologies associated with quantum communication and interrelated encryption methods.

1 Mar 2019

Researchers Show a Way to Deal with Errors in Quantum Computers

When erecting a quantum computer, errors have to be dealt with—in both senses of the term.

28 Feb 2019

Study Shows Dark Matter May Scatter Against Each Other Only When They Hit the Right Energy

According to researchers in Japan, Austria, and Germany who performed a study recently, the scattering of dark matter against one another may occur only when they hit the right energy.

28 Feb 2019

Researchers Find Topological Materials to be More Common than Thought Earlier

Taking a major stride forward in a research field that was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, an international research team has discovered that topological materials—substances that have strange electronic behaviors—are actually very common, and include usual elements such as gold and arsenic.

28 Feb 2019

Neutrinos Observed in Galaxy Clusters

The universe, in the early times, was an energetic blend of powerfully interacting particles. The first particles to split free from this thick soup were neutrinos, the lightest and most feebly interacting particles of the Standard Model of particle physics.

27 Feb 2019

Researchers Get a Step Closer to Deciphering the Quantum Realm

The quantum realm is extremely complex, its multiple layers and tiny components eluding regular analytical methodologies.

27 Feb 2019

Innovative Technique Helps Observe Quantum Movement More Easily

Whenever researchers study fast and microscopic objects, they observe the laws of physics operating in an extremely different way compared to the day-to-day “normal-sized” world.

27 Feb 2019

Astronomers Unveil the Enigmatic Origins of Two Different Gas Streams from a Baby Star

The mysterious origins of two varied gas streams from a baby star have now been exposed by astronomers.

27 Feb 2019

New Material Improves Superconductivity in Topological-Insulator Nanoribbon Josephson Junctions

Quantum computers will process considerably more information simultaneously compared to present-day computers. But the building blocks that hold this information—quantum bits, or “qubits”—are extremely sensitive to their environment to function sufficiently well at the moment to create a practical quantum computer.

27 Feb 2019