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Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Plate Tectonics, Study Shows

A recent study provides new evidence that the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa may have plate tectonics similar to those on Earth.

5 Dec 2017

Colliding Galaxies Support Theory of Elusive Dark Matter SIMPs

The intensive, worldwide search for dark matter, the missing mass in the universe, has so far failed to find an abundance of dark, massive stars or scads of strange new weakly interacting particles, but a new candidate is slowly gaining followers and observational support.

5 Dec 2017

Australian Astronomer Creates Most Detailed Map of High-Velocity Clouds in the Universe

An Australian scientist has created the most detailed map ever of clouds of high-velocity gas in the Universe around us.

4 Dec 2017

New Study Corrects Model of Galaxy and Star Cluster Formation

When galaxy clusters and globular star clusters form, a phenomenon called "violent relaxation" occurs. After interacting intensely, the thousands or even millions of bodies reach a state of relative gravitational equilibrium and a fairly long-lasting spatial distribution.

4 Dec 2017

Study Provides Deeper Physical Understanding of Plasma Turbulence

Plasmas, gas-like collections of ions and electrons, make up an estimated 99 percent of the visible matter in the universe, including the sun, the stars, and the gaseous medium that permeates the space in between.

4 Dec 2017

Astronomers Identify Low-Mass Stars Close to Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation. These harsh conditions, astronomers long surmised, do not favor star formation, especially low-mass stars like our sun.

4 Dec 2017

Researchers Develop a 51-Qubit Quantum Simulator

Programming a computer is usually considered to be a fairly difficult process as it involves hours of coding, not to mention the strenuous work of debugging, testing, and documenting in order to ensure that it works properly.

1 Dec 2017

Quantum Simulators Could Help Design New Materials with Exotic Conduction Properties

The special-purpose quantum computers called quantum simulators will help scientists in identifying materials with new, useful properties. Thanks to a recent collaboration between Google and scientists at universities in Greece, Singapore and California, this exciting future has just taken a step forward.

1 Dec 2017

Quantum Secret Communication Realizes Secure Information Transmission Through Optical Fibers

Quantum secret communication realizes secure information transmission based on principles of quantum mechanism, which is an important field in quantum information sciences and technologies. At present, the most developed quantum secret communication schemes are based on quantum key distribution.

1 Dec 2017

Gravitational Wave Experiments Could be Used to Test Existence of Primordial Black Holes

A new study published in Physical Review Letters outlines how scientists could use gravitational wave experiments to test the existence of primordial black holes, gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang that some scientists have posited could be an explanation for dark matter.

1 Dec 2017

Physicists Build the Largest Qubit Array for Solving Quantum Optimization Problems

An innovative technique for manipulating quantum bits of matter has been demonstrated by physicists from MIT and Harvard University. The technique, which involves using a system of well-tweaked lasers to initially trap and then tune the interactions among 51 individual atoms (i.e. quantum bits), has been described in a paper published in the Nature journal on November 29, 2017.

30 Nov 2017

Terahertz Laser Pulses Used for Revealing Ultrafast Coupling of Atomic-Scale Patterns

Stripes are present everywhere, from the latest fashion statement to zebras roaming in the wild. Periodic stripe patterns can be developed by electrons within quantum materials in the world of microscopic physics.

30 Nov 2017

Giant Magellan Telescope Could Help Explore Deep Space

For more than 400 years, humanity has been pointing telescopes skyward, peering into the depths of space to ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe.

30 Nov 2017

DAMPE Mission Could Shed Light on Decay of Particle Dark Matter

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE, also known as Wukong) mission published its first scientific results on Nov. 30 in Nature, presenting the precise measurement of cosmic ray electron flux, especially a spectral break at ~0.9 TeV.

30 Nov 2017

Astronomers Make Deepest Spectroscopic Observations of Southern Constellation of Fornax

The MUSE HUDF Survey team, led by Roland Bacon of the Centre de recherche astrophysique de Lyon (CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1/ENS de Lyon), France, used MUSE (Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) to observe the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (heic0406), a much-studied patch of the southern constellation of Fornax (The Furnace).

30 Nov 2017

Quantum Science News

Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Plate Tectonics, Study Shows

Colliding Galaxies Support Theory of Elusive Dark Matter SIMPs

Australian Astronomer Creates Most Detailed Map of High-Velocity Clouds in the Universe

New Study Corrects Model of Galaxy and Star Cluster Formation

Study Provides Deeper Physical Understanding of Plasma Turbulence

Astronomers Identify Low-Mass Stars Close to Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Researchers Develop a 51-Qubit Quantum Simulator

Quantum Simulators Could Help Design New Materials with Exotic Conduction Properties

Quantum Secret Communication Realizes Secure Information Transmission Through Optical Fibers

Gravitational Wave Experiments Could be Used to Test Existence of Primordial Black Holes

Physicists Build the Largest Qubit Array for Solving Quantum Optimization Problems

Terahertz Laser Pulses Used for Revealing Ultrafast Coupling of Atomic-Scale Patterns

Giant Magellan Telescope Could Help Explore Deep Space

DAMPE Mission Could Shed Light on Decay of Particle Dark Matter

Astronomers Make Deepest Spectroscopic Observations of Southern Constellation of Fornax

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