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Novel Optics System Could Help Locate Source of Gravitational Waves

A novel optics system that mimics the structure of a lobster’s eyes would enable a conceptual Explorer-class mission to precisely locate, characterize, and alert other observatories to the source of gravitational waves, which are caused by some of the most powerful events in the universe.

27 Oct 2017

Unique Properties of Quantum Materials Could Revolutionize Future Technologies

For nearly four decades the subatomic physics laboratory, TRIUMF, in Vancouver, has housed a unique facility that uses the short-lived, muon subatomic particle (an elementary particle similar to the electron) as a sensitive magnetic probe in materials, and in studies of chemical reactions.

27 Oct 2017

Popular Theory of Gravity Hardly Applicable to Real World

Taking black holes (as a real object) as a test material, scientists from the Ural Federal university (UrFU, Yekaterinburg) found out that a popular theory of gravity which had seemed to work perfectly at the cosmological level (a subclass of Horndeski theory) is hardly applicable to the real world.

27 Oct 2017

Viscosity of Quark-Gluon Plasma to be Much Lower than Previously Estimated

Collisions of lead nuclei in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator take place at such great energies that quarks that are normally confined inside nucleons are released and, together with the gluons that hold them together, form a stream of particularly exotic fluid: quark-gluon plasma.

27 Oct 2017

Astronomers Spot Dusty Tails of Exocomets Streaking Past a Distant Star

Scientists from MIT and other institutions, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets -- comets outside our solar system -- orbiting a faint star 800 light years from Earth.

27 Oct 2017

Density of Galaxy Cluster Seems to be Much Smaller than Predicted, says Astrophysicists

Galaxy clusters are the largest known structures in the Universe, containing thousands of galaxies and hot gas.

26 Oct 2017

ESO’s VLT Reveals Secrets of Luminous Members of Closes Galaxy Cluster

Captured using the exceptional sky-surveying abilities of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this deep view reveals the secrets of the luminous members of the Fornax Cluster, one of the richest and closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way.

26 Oct 2017

University of Maryland Professor Offers Testimony to Address the Need for National Quantum Initiative

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Technology and Subcommittee on Energy today held a joint hearing, "American Leadership in Quantum Technology," featuring testimony from experts including Dr. Christopher Monroe, professor of physics at the University of Maryland and founder and chief scientist at IonQ, Inc., who testified on behalf of the National Photonics Initiative (NPI) – an alliance of top scientific societies uniting industry and academia to raise awareness of photonics.

25 Oct 2017

Astrophysicists to Catch Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Deep Space

A team led by Prof. Angela Olinto was awarded NASA funding to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with an innovative ultra-sensitive telescope to pick up cosmic rays and neutrinos coming from deep space.

25 Oct 2017

Bright Spots on Supergiant Star Drive Large-Scale Spiral Structures in Stellar Wind

A Canadian-led international team of astronomers recently discovered that spots on the surface of a supergiant star are driving huge spiral structures in its stellar wind. Their results are published in a recent edition of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

25 Oct 2017

New Honeycomb-Structured Material Meets Elusive Standards of the Kitaev Model

An elusive honeycomb-structured material has been developed by researchers from Boston College and Harvard. This new material is capable of frustrating the magnetic properties inside it in order to develop a chemical entity called "spin liquid," long theorized as a gateway to the free-flowing properties of quantum computing, based on a new report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

24 Oct 2017

Ames Laboratory Researchers Discover Super-Elastic Shape-Memory Properties in Superconductors

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has discovered extreme "bounce," or super-elastic shape-memory properties in a material that could be applied for use as an actuator in the harshest of conditions, such as outer space, and might be the first in a whole new class of shape memory materials.

24 Oct 2017

CUORE Provides Possible Explanation for Why the Universe Favors Matter Over Antimatter

The first glimpse of data from the full array of a deeply chilled particle detector operating beneath a mountain in Italy sets the most precise limits yet on where scientists might find a theorized process to help explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.

24 Oct 2017

Researchers Receive $10 Million to Improve the Quantum Computing Research Spectrum

Researchers plan to harness the power of quantum mechanics in order to develop quantum computers capable of simulating phenomenon at an unimaginable scale and speed on standard architectures.

23 Oct 2017

Barry Simon Receives 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Major Contributions in Mathematical Physics

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS) announced that Barry Simon of Caltech is the recipient of the 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, which is awarded annually to honor significant contributions to the field.

23 Oct 2017

Quantum Science News

Novel Optics System Could Help Locate Source of Gravitational Waves

Unique Properties of Quantum Materials Could Revolutionize Future Technologies

Popular Theory of Gravity Hardly Applicable to Real World

Viscosity of Quark-Gluon Plasma to be Much Lower than Previously Estimated

Astronomers Spot Dusty Tails of Exocomets Streaking Past a Distant Star

Density of Galaxy Cluster Seems to be Much Smaller than Predicted, says Astrophysicists

ESO’s VLT Reveals Secrets of Luminous Members of Closes Galaxy Cluster

University of Maryland Professor Offers Testimony to Address the Need for National Quantum Initiative

Astrophysicists to Catch Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Deep Space

Bright Spots on Supergiant Star Drive Large-Scale Spiral Structures in Stellar Wind

New Honeycomb-Structured Material Meets Elusive Standards of the Kitaev Model

Ames Laboratory Researchers Discover Super-Elastic Shape-Memory Properties in Superconductors

CUORE Provides Possible Explanation for Why the Universe Favors Matter Over Antimatter

Researchers Receive $10 Million to Improve the Quantum Computing Research Spectrum

Barry Simon Receives 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Major Contributions in Mathematical Physics

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