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Cosmos Code Could Revel Mysteries of Black Holes and Other Space Oddities

Black holes make for a great space mystery. They're so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole once it gets close enough. A great mystery for scientists is that there's evidence of powerful jets of electrons and protons that shoot out of the top and bottom of some black holes. Yet no one knows how these jets form.

8 Nov 2017

Significant Milestone for Scaling Up Quantum Computers

A future quantum computer, employing "quantum bits" or qubits, might be capable of solving problems which are not tractable for classical computers. Scientists are presently struggling to develop devices with more than a few qubits, with the growing challenge that the qubits mutually hinder each other’s proper operation.

7 Nov 2017

Researchers Enhance Vertical Stability of Elongated Plasma in KSTAR

A major challenge facing the development of fusion energy is maintaining the ultra-hot plasma that fuels fusion reactions in a steady state, or sustainable, form using superconducting magnetic coils that the task requires[MJ1].

7 Nov 2017

Astronomers Discover Second Most Distant Dusty Star Forming Galaxy in the Universe

Astronomers using the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT), which is operated jointly by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, report today in Nature Astronomy that they have detected the second most distant dusty, star-forming galaxy ever found in the universe – born in the first one billion years after the Big Bang.

7 Nov 2017

Researchers Identify Molecular Forests Aligned Along the Center of NGC 253 Galaxy

Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

7 Nov 2017

UCSB Physicists’ New Device Could Provide Conclusive Evidence for Existence of Quantum Particle

What kinds of ‘particles’ are allowed by nature? The answer lies in the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes the microscopic world.

7 Nov 2017

GMTO Initiates Casting of Fifth Mirror for Giant Magellan Telescope

The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) has announced that it has started the casting of the fifth of seven mirrors that will form the center of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT).

6 Nov 2017

ALMA Observatory Detects Dust Around the Closest Star to the Solar System

Dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri, has been detected by the ALMA Observatory in Chile. These new observations expose the glow generating from cold dust in a region between one to four times as far from Proxima Centauri as the Earth is from the Sun.

6 Nov 2017

CALET Successfully Measures High Energy Electrons in Space

The CALET Cosmic Ray experiment, headed by Professor Shoji Torii from Waseda University in Japan, together with partners from LSU and other researchers in the U.S. and abroad, have successfully performed the high-precision measurement of cosmic-ray electron spectrum up to 3 tera electron volts (TeV) by employing the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the Japanese Experimental Module, the Exposed Facility on the International Space Station (ISS).

6 Nov 2017

New Zurich Instruments Arbitrary Waveform Generator for quantum research, spectroscopy applications, and component testing

The new HDAWG offers the highest channel density and the lowest trigger latency available. With its 16-bit vertical resolution, internal oscillators, and industry-leading software it delivers high signal fidelity and eff...

6 Nov 2017

Scientists Demonstrate How to Speed Up Frequency Measurement

An accurate analog clock tick-tick-ticks with a well-known frequency and constant precision: one tick per second. The longer it is let tick, the better it is to test its accuracy — 10 times as long corresponds to a ten-fold enhancement in any frequency uncertainty. However, is there a faster way to determine a frequency?

3 Nov 2017

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Nearby Asteroids Photobombing Deep Images of the Universe

Like rude relatives who jump in front of your vacation snapshots of landscapes, some of our solar system's asteroids have photobombed deep images of the universe taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

3 Nov 2017

New Research Sheds Light on Matter Accretion Process on Surface of Young Stars

An international team of researchers from multiple institutions, including INRS, is shedding light on the mystery of matter accretion in young stars.

3 Nov 2017

New Family of Mathematical Models Exhibit Broad Array of Quantum Particle Interactions

In physics, the conundrum known as the "few-body problem," how three or more interacting particles behave, has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Equations that describe the physics of few-body systems are usually unsolvable and the methods used to find solutions are unstable.

2 Nov 2017

Researchers Earn Grant to Investigate Galaxies that Extend Along ‘Cosmic Web’ of Filaments

Astronomer Gregory Rudnick sees the universe crisscrossed by something like an interstellar superhighway system. Filaments — the strands of aggregated matter that stretch millions of light years across the universe to connect galaxy clusters — are the freeways.

2 Nov 2017

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Cosmos Code Could Revel Mysteries of Black Holes and Other Space Oddities

Significant Milestone for Scaling Up Quantum Computers

Researchers Enhance Vertical Stability of Elongated Plasma in KSTAR

Astronomers Discover Second Most Distant Dusty Star Forming Galaxy in the Universe

Researchers Identify Molecular Forests Aligned Along the Center of NGC 253 Galaxy

UCSB Physicists’ New Device Could Provide Conclusive Evidence for Existence of Quantum Particle

GMTO Initiates Casting of Fifth Mirror for Giant Magellan Telescope

ALMA Observatory Detects Dust Around the Closest Star to the Solar System

CALET Successfully Measures High Energy Electrons in Space

New Zurich Instruments Arbitrary Waveform Generator for quantum research, spectroscopy applications, and component testing

Scientists Demonstrate How to Speed Up Frequency Measurement

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Captures Nearby Asteroids Photobombing Deep Images of the Universe

New Research Sheds Light on Matter Accretion Process on Surface of Young Stars

New Family of Mathematical Models Exhibit Broad Array of Quantum Particle Interactions

Researchers Earn Grant to Investigate Galaxies that Extend Along ‘Cosmic Web’ of Filaments

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