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Whitewood Receives Quantum Key Management Patent from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Whitewood, a developer of solutions focused on improving the use of cryptography, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted a new patent entitled, Quantum Key Management.

27 Jan 2017

Physicists Turn One-Dimensional Chain of Ytterbium Ions into Time Crystal

To most people, crystals mean diamond bling, semiprecious gems or perhaps the jagged amethyst or quartz crystals beloved by collectors.

27 Jan 2017

New EEGGL Tool Helps Simulate Magnetically Structured Clouds of Solar Storms

The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth – the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through – can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles, out into space.

27 Jan 2017

Universe is Expanding Faster than Expected, Finds NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made an independent measurement of how fast the Universe is expanding.

27 Jan 2017

LSU Physicist Gabriela González Receives 2017 Rossi Prize for Direct Detections of Gravitational Waves

The 2017 Rossi Prize has been awarded to Gabriela González and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for the first direct detections of gravitational waves, for the discovery of merging black hole binaries and for beginning the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy.

27 Jan 2017

Researchers Develop Revolutionizing Technology for Light-based Quantum Networks

Advanced photonic nanostructures are well on their way to revolutionising quantum technology for quantum networks based on light.

27 Jan 2017

New Research Holds Exciting Implications for Fast and Secure Quantum Communication in Future

New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has exciting implications for fast and secure data transfer in the future and will aid technological advances that seek to establish more secure quantum communication links over long distances.

25 Jan 2017

PPPL Scientists Explore Mechanism Behind Onset of Magnetic Reconnection

Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published a paper showing that magnetic reconnection — the process in which magnetic field lines snap together and release energy — can be triggered by motion in nearby magnetic fields.

24 Jan 2017

Astronomers Discover Seven Distinct Groups of Dwarf Galaxies with Ideal Conditions to Form Larger Galaxies

Dwarf galaxies, nuggets of stars and gas 100 to 1,000 times smaller than the Milky Way, are thought to be the building blocks of massive galaxies. Evidence for groups of merging dwarf galaxies, however, has been lacking, until now.

24 Jan 2017

Quantum Optical Sensors Could be Operated in Space

For the first time ever, a cloud of ultra-cold atoms has been successfully created in space on board of a sounding rocket.

24 Jan 2017

Toroidal Magnets Could Hunt for Mysterious Dark Matter

Scientists at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) optimized some of the characteristics of the magnet to hunt for one possible component of dark matter called axion.

24 Jan 2017

Professor Jeremy O'Brien Envisions a Future of Quantum Computing

Imagine in 2025 that quantum computers, while being quite expensive, are reliable, hugely powerful and able to circumvent strong encryption up to 256 bits. How should business, government and civil society prepare for such a future?

20 Jan 2017

Scientists Performing High-Precision Measurements to Discover Key Dissimilarities Between Matter and Antimatter

One of the deepest mysteries of physics today is why we seem to live in a world composed only of matter, while the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter.

19 Jan 2017

Researchers Demonstrate Direct Detection of Signals from Quantum Vacuum

With these results, the researchers from the field of ultrafast phenomena and photonics build on their earlier findings, published in October 2015 in the scientific journal Science, where they have demonstrated direct detection of signals from pure nothingness.

19 Jan 2017

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Gives Astronomers a Better Look at Pulsars

Like cosmic lighthouses sweeping the universe with bursts of energy, pulsars have fascinated and baffled astronomers since they were first discovered 50 years ago.

18 Jan 2017

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Whitewood Receives Quantum Key Management Patent from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Physicists Turn One-Dimensional Chain of Ytterbium Ions into Time Crystal

New EEGGL Tool Helps Simulate Magnetically Structured Clouds of Solar Storms

Universe is Expanding Faster than Expected, Finds NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

LSU Physicist Gabriela González Receives 2017 Rossi Prize for Direct Detections of Gravitational Waves

Researchers Develop Revolutionizing Technology for Light-based Quantum Networks

New Research Holds Exciting Implications for Fast and Secure Quantum Communication in Future

PPPL Scientists Explore Mechanism Behind Onset of Magnetic Reconnection

Astronomers Discover Seven Distinct Groups of Dwarf Galaxies with Ideal Conditions to Form Larger Galaxies

Quantum Optical Sensors Could be Operated in Space

Toroidal Magnets Could Hunt for Mysterious Dark Matter

Professor Jeremy O'Brien Envisions a Future of Quantum Computing

Scientists Performing High-Precision Measurements to Discover Key Dissimilarities Between Matter and Antimatter

Researchers Demonstrate Direct Detection of Signals from Quantum Vacuum

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Gives Astronomers a Better Look at Pulsars

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