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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

New Strategy Uses Superfluid Helium to Detect Interactions Between Dark Matter

Physicists from Brown University have devised a new strategy for directly detecting dark matter, the elusive material thought to account for the majority of matter in the universe.

2 Nov 2017

Scientists Explore Ways to Detect and Define Dark Matter More Accurately

One professor who studies the earth and one who studies space came together in the pursuit to detect and define dark matter.

2 Nov 2017

Use of Split Laser Beam to Ensure Quantum Interaction Between Atoms and Photons

Although bouncing a single light particle from a single atom with a width lesser than one-billionth of a meter is no simple task, at present, scientists from the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore have demonstrated that they can double the probability of a favorable result.

1 Nov 2017

Astrophysicists Unveil Most Accurate Picture of Distribution of Dark Matter

The unveiling this summer of the most accurate cosmic picture ever taken of the distribution of dark matter has left astrophysicists feeling both delighted and frustrated.

1 Nov 2017

Unprecedented Deep Image of Galaxy Reveals Evidence of Hidden Minor Merger

The galaxy Messier 77 (M77) is famous for its super-active nucleus that releases enormous energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from x-ray to radio wavelengths. Yet, despite its highly active core, the galaxy looks like any normal quiet spiral. There's no visual sign of what is causing its central region to radiate so extensively.

1 Nov 2017

A Ground-Breaking Device Could Lead to Development of New Sensing Technologies

Ernst Chladni, a scientist and musician, discovered that the vibrations of a rigid plate could be visualized by covering it with a thin layer of sand and drawing a bow across its edge. This discovery took place in the late 18th century.

31 Oct 2017

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

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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

New Strategy Uses Superfluid Helium to Detect Interactions Between Dark Matter

Scientists Explore Ways to Detect and Define Dark Matter More Accurately

Use of Split Laser Beam to Ensure Quantum Interaction Between Atoms and Photons

Astrophysicists Unveil Most Accurate Picture of Distribution of Dark Matter

Unprecedented Deep Image of Galaxy Reveals Evidence of Hidden Minor Merger

A Ground-Breaking Device Could Lead to Development of New Sensing Technologies

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

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