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Ongoing Planet-Hunting Survey Reports Distances of 134 Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars. They're stars' dim, low-mass siblings and they fade in brightness over time.

28 Jun 2016

New Technique Demonstrates Use of Atoms as Building Blocks of Circuits in Quantum Computers

The era of quantum computers is one step closer as a result of research published in the current issue of the journal Science. The research team has devised and demonstrated a new way to pack a lot more quantum computing power into a much smaller space and with much greater control than ever before.

28 Jun 2016

Astronomers Detect Existence of Many Unnoticed Black Holes

Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low-mass star and a black hole.

28 Jun 2016

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: Scientists Discuss Role of Quantum Technology in 21st Century

The 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was inaugurated today in Lindau on the banks of Lake Constance, Germany. Countess Bettina Bernadotte af Wisborg, President of the Council, welcomed the guests who hail from some 80 different countries.

27 Jun 2016

Researchers Provide New Insights into Nature of Supermassive Black Holes Using Space-Based Detectors

Scientists led by Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology ran the huge cosmological simulations that can be used to predict the rate at which gravitational waves caused by collisions between the monster black holes might be detected.

27 Jun 2016

Researchers Discover New Source of Friction in Ultra-Cold Atoms

Theoretical physicists studying the behavior of ultra-cold atoms have discovered a new source of friction, dispensing with a century-old paradox in the process.

27 Jun 2016

New Study Represents First Step in Birth of New Field of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

New calculations predict that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) will detect approximately 1,000 mergers of massive black holes annually once it achieves full sensitivity early next decade.

27 Jun 2016

Dartmouth Discovery Offers New Way to Accurately Control Quantum Systems

Dartmouth College researchers have discovered a method to design faster pulses, offering a new way to accurately control quantum systems.

24 Jun 2016

Scientists Use Einstein’s Full General Theory of Relativity to Create Detailed Model of the Universe

Research teams in Europe and the USA – including a cosmologist from the University of Portsmouth – have begun modelling the universe for the first time using Einstein’s full general theory of relativity.

24 Jun 2016

New Technology Aims to Make Advanced LIGO More Sensitive to Gravitational Waves

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Australian National University have developed new technology that aims to make the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) even more sensitive to faint ripples in space-time called gravitational waves.

24 Jun 2016

Astronomers Use New GRAVITY Instrument to Obtain Exciting Observations of Galactic Centre

The GRAVITY instrument is now operating with the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope, and even from early test results it is already clear that it will soon be producing world-class science.

24 Jun 2016

KM3NeT Project Aims To Discover More about Fundamental Properties of Neutrinos

KM3NeT - a European collaboration pioneering the deployment of kilometre cubed arrays of neutrino detectors off the Mediterranean coast - has reported in detail on the scientific aims, technology and costs of its proposal in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.

24 Jun 2016

Physicists Devise New Method for Creating Special Quantum Entangled State

Physicists from the Russian Quantum Center (RQC), MIPT, the Lebedev Physical Institute, and L'Institut d'Optique (Palaiseau, France) have devised a method for creating a special quantum entangled state.

24 Jun 2016

Researchers Simulate Lattice Gauge Theories in a Quantum Computer to Understand Fundamental Processes

The primary building blocks of matter are the elementary particles, whose properties are explained in the Standard Model of particle physics. An advanced step in confirming the Standard Model was the finding of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN.

24 Jun 2016

Shredded Star’s X-Ray Echoes Offer a Peek at Monster Black Hole

About 3.9 billion years ago, a star that passed close to a monster black hole was shredded by the hole’s intense tidal pull. On March 28, 2011 the X-rays generated during this event first reached Earth, and NASA's Swift satellite was able to detect them and alerted astronomers located in various parts of the world.

23 Jun 2016

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Ongoing Planet-Hunting Survey Reports Distances of 134 Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

New Technique Demonstrates Use of Atoms as Building Blocks of Circuits in Quantum Computers

Astronomers Detect Existence of Many Unnoticed Black Holes

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: Scientists Discuss Role of Quantum Technology in 21st Century

Researchers Provide New Insights into Nature of Supermassive Black Holes Using Space-Based Detectors

Researchers Discover New Source of Friction in Ultra-Cold Atoms

New Study Represents First Step in Birth of New Field of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Dartmouth Discovery Offers New Way to Accurately Control Quantum Systems

Scientists Use Einstein’s Full General Theory of Relativity to Create Detailed Model of the Universe

New Technology Aims to Make Advanced LIGO More Sensitive to Gravitational Waves

Astronomers Use New GRAVITY Instrument to Obtain Exciting Observations of Galactic Centre

KM3NeT Project Aims To Discover More about Fundamental Properties of Neutrinos

Physicists Devise New Method for Creating Special Quantum Entangled State

Researchers Simulate Lattice Gauge Theories in a Quantum Computer to Understand Fundamental Processes

Shredded Star’s X-Ray Echoes Offer a Peek at Monster Black Hole

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

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

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2New Discovery Links ORC Formation to Merging Galaxy Clusters

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