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SFU Professor Develops and Constructs New Facility to Detect Particle Physics

A new particle physics detector lab—where SFU researchers involved in ATLAS, the world’s largest physics experiment, can carry out research—and a specialized sensor to improve airborne monitoring for security, wildfires and other disasters, are among new tools that will help grow world-class research at SFU.

1 Mar 2017

Generalized Knapsack Code Could Defend Against Quantum Computing Hacks

The encryption codes that safeguard internet data today won't be secure forever.

1 Mar 2017

IST Austria Researcher Proves Existence of New Type of Quasiparticle

How do molecules rotate in a solvent? Answering this question is a complicated task since the molecular rotation is perturbed by a very large number of surrounding atoms.

28 Feb 2017

New Theory Explains How Initial Dust Develops into Planetary Systems

Planets are thought to form in the disks of dust and gas found around young stars. But astronomers have struggled to assemble a complete theory of their origin that explains how the initial dust develops into planetary systems.

28 Feb 2017

Clemson University Scientists Identify Some of the Most Power-Packed Galaxies

When the universe was young, a supermassive black hole — bloated to the bursting point with stupendous power — heaved out a jet of particle-infused energy that raced through the vastness of space at nearly the speed of light.

28 Feb 2017

Research Outlines How Toroidal-Shaped Plasmas Managed to Decrease Level of Adverse Turbulence

Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate energy.

28 Feb 2017

Supermassive Black Holes Rip Apart Stars More Often than Previously Thought

Astronomers based at the University of Sheffield have found evidence that stars are ripped apart by supermassive black holes 100 times more often than previously thought.

28 Feb 2017

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Captures New Image of Supernova 1987A

Three decades ago, a massive stellar explosion sent shockwaves not only through space but also through the astronomical community.

27 Feb 2017

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Observes Seven Earth-Size Planets

The first known system of seven Earth-size planets orbiting around a single star has been revealed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It has been observed that three of these planets are firmly positioned in the habitable zone, referring to the area surrounding the parent star where a rocky planet is expected to have liquid water.

23 Feb 2017

Quantum Information Uses Quantum Physics to Encode Computational Tasks

A piece of research at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country uses quantum simulators to imitate life, natural selection, learning and memory

23 Feb 2017

Scientists Develop Unique Experiment to Detect Quantum Events in Ultra-Thin Films

A research group from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with French colleagues at CNRS Grenoble, has developed a unique experiment to detect quantum events in ultra-thin films.

23 Feb 2017

First Trace of Differences Between Baryons and Antibaryons Encountered in LHCb Experiment

The world around us is mainly constructed of baryons, particles composed of three quarks. Why are there no antibaryons, since just after the Big Bang, matter and antimatter came into being in exactly the same amounts?

23 Feb 2017

Researchers Study Emergence of Quantum Effects and Destruction of Chaos

Weather forecasters have a notoriously difficult job as small changes that take place in temperature or air pressure, which eventually drives weather systems and winds, can have major consequences on a global level. This sensitivity to small changes is commonly known as the butterfly effect, which creates difficulty and chaos in predicting weather patterns.

22 Feb 2017