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RIT Researchers Reanalyze Merging Black Holes Detected by LIGO

New information gleaned from gravitational wave observations is helping scientists understand what happens when massive stars die and transform into black holes.

6 Jun 2017

ALMA Observations Unravel the Mystery Behind Boomerang Nebula

An ancient, red giant star in the throes of a frigid death has produced the coldest known object in the cosmos -- the Boomerang Nebula. How this star was able to create an environment strikingly colder than the natural background temperature of deep space has been a compelling mystery for more than two decades.

6 Jun 2017

Research Shows that Light Becomes Superfluid When Flowing Across an Obstacle

Scientists have known for centuries that light is composed of waves. The fact that light can also behave as a liquid, rippling and spiraling around obstacles like the current of a river, is a much more recent finding that is still a subject of active research.

6 Jun 2017

New Experiment Confirms Validity of Einstein Equivalence Principle for Quantum Superpositions

Sixteenth century scientist Galileo Galilei threw two spheres of different mass from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to establish a scientific principle.

5 Jun 2017

Third Collision of Black Holes Validates Work of Hundreds of Scientists

The announcement that a third collision of black holes has been detected three billion light years away validates the work of hundreds of scientists, including teams at the University of Washington and UW Bothell.

5 Jun 2017

Researchers Use Theoretical Simplification Method to Explore "Strong Force"

The “strong force” plays a crucial role for the existence of matter in the visible universe. Scientists at TU Darmstadt are carrying out research in that field and recently published their results in “Physical Review Letters”. To describe the processes in the nucleus they used a method of theoretical simplification which might be applicable to heavier nuclei.

5 Jun 2017

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Vermin Galaxy

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is famous for its jaw-dropping snapshots of the cosmos. At first glance this Picture of the Week appears to be quite the opposite, showing just a blur of jagged spikes, speckled noise, and weird, clashing colors — but once you know what you are looking at, images like this one are no less breathtaking.

5 Jun 2017

Researchers Aim to Identify Cosmic Environments that Spawn Colliding Black Holes

Astrophysicists everywhere are thrilled about yesterday's news that the LIGO experiment has detected its third set of gravitational waves. Predicted more than a century ago by Albert Einstein, and finally detected by LIGO for the first time in 2015, gravitational waves have opened an entirely new way of observing the universe's most violent events.

5 Jun 2017

Researchers Observe Intriguing Oscillatory Back-and-Forth Motion of a Quantum Particle

In the quantum world, our intuition for moving objects is strongly challenged and may sometimes even completely fail. Experimental physicists of the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with theorists from Munich, Paris and Cambridge have found a quantum particle which shows an intriguing oscillatory back-and-forth motion in a one-dimensional atomic gas.

2 Jun 2017

Atos' Quantum Computing Solutions Offer Unprecedented Computing Power

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, held yesterday its ‘Atos Quantum’ Scientific Council meeting. ‘Atos Quantum’ is the first industry program in Europe to develop quantum computing solutions that offer unprecedented computing power, while anticipating future cybersecurity challenges.

2 Jun 2017

Entangled Quantum States of Two Particles Possess Classical Fingerprint

Discovery by international team offers route to certify devices for quantum computing and quantum cryptography

2 Jun 2017

Third Detection of Gravitational Waves Provides New Insights into Black Hole Population

One, two and now three historic waves have come from deep space — confirmed again by a chirping sound that was like music to the soul for the worldwide group of scientists waiting for it.

2 Jun 2017

MIT Researchers Use InAs-Based, SWIR-Emitting Quantum Dots to Advance In Vivo Imaging

Princeton Instruments hails the introduction and evaluation of a new class of high-quality, indium-arsenide (InAs)–based, short-wave infrared (SWIR)–emitting quantum dots for use as in vivo imaging agents by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2 Jun 2017

Muon g-2 Experiment Begins Search for Phantom Particles with Electromagnet

What do you get when you revive a beautiful 20-year-old physics machine, carefully transport it 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home, and then use it to probe strange happenings in a magnetic field? Hopefully you get new insights into the elementary particles that make up everything.

2 Jun 2017

Quantum Rotations Could Mimic Classical Rotations, Say Researchers

In molecules there are certain groups of atoms that are able to rotate. This movement occurs under the influence of random stimuli from the environment and is not continuous but occurs in jumps. It is generally believed that such jumps occur in a manner that is typical of classical objects, such as a fan blade prodded by a finger.

1 Jun 2017

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RIT Researchers Reanalyze Merging Black Holes Detected by LIGO

ALMA Observations Unravel the Mystery Behind Boomerang Nebula

Research Shows that Light Becomes Superfluid When Flowing Across an Obstacle

New Experiment Confirms Validity of Einstein Equivalence Principle for Quantum Superpositions

Third Collision of Black Holes Validates Work of Hundreds of Scientists

Researchers Use Theoretical Simplification Method to Explore "Strong Force"

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Vermin Galaxy

Researchers Aim to Identify Cosmic Environments that Spawn Colliding Black Holes

Researchers Observe Intriguing Oscillatory Back-and-Forth Motion of a Quantum Particle

Atos' Quantum Computing Solutions Offer Unprecedented Computing Power

Entangled Quantum States of Two Particles Possess Classical Fingerprint

Third Detection of Gravitational Waves Provides New Insights into Black Hole Population

MIT Researchers Use InAs-Based, SWIR-Emitting Quantum Dots to Advance In Vivo Imaging

Muon g-2 Experiment Begins Search for Phantom Particles with Electromagnet

Quantum Rotations Could Mimic Classical Rotations, Say Researchers

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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