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Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 Captures Section of NGC 1448 Spiral Galaxy

This image from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a section of NGC 1448, a spiral galaxy located about 50 million light-years from Earth in the little-known constellation of Horologium (The Pendulum Clock).

21 Mar 2017

Star’s 'Death Spiral' Creates Shock Waves Far from Black Hole

Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy. Intense tides tore the star apart, which produced an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that first reached Earth in 2014.

21 Mar 2017

SJTU Researchers Detect Majorana Fermion in Artificial Topological Superconductor

The detection of Majorana fermion is one of the hotspots in the study of condensed matter recently. The research group in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) achieved great breakthrough in the detection of Majorana fermion in the artificial topological superconductor, which is the heterostructure of a normal superconductor and a topological insulator.

20 Mar 2017

Researchers Reveal Dynamics of Orbital Angular Momentum of Plasmons

A team of Israeli and German researchers from Technion in Haifa and the universities of Kaiserslautern, Duisburg-Essen and Stuttgart have been able to reveal for the first time the dynamics of the orbital angular momentum of plasmons.

20 Mar 2017

Quantum Theory Model of Humor Could Explain Why Jokes Seem to be Funny

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the ambiguity of the joke.

20 Mar 2017

New Discovery of Third Runaway Star Provides Strong Evidence on Breakup of Multiple-Star System

As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star war far away in the Orion Nebula.

20 Mar 2017

Researchers Demonstrate Quantum-Enhanced Machine-Learning Technology

Quantum computing will soon enter a new era of quantum supremacy, where quantum computers are expected to provide a better computational performance than classical computers, paving the way for new technologies and applications such as processing big data and designing new drugs.

17 Mar 2017

New Microwave Measurement Method Beats Quantum Limit of Measurement

Research groups at Aalto University and the University of Jyväskylä have demonstrated a new microwave measurement method that goes to the quantum limit of measurement and beats it.

17 Mar 2017

NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover Relativistic Electrons in the Inner Belt

The behavior of Earthâ€™s radiation belts is yet to be completely understood even though these two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encompassing our planet were discovered more than 50 years ago.

16 Mar 2017

Tidal Disruption Flares Lead Researchers to Supermassive Black Holes

A supermassive black hole â€œchokingâ€ on an unexpected influx of stellar debris has been discovered by researchers at the center of a distant galaxy, located nearly 300 million light years from our planet.

16 Mar 2017

Carnegie Researcher Visualizes Debris Disk 'Roller Derby' to Understand Evolution of Planetary System

When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material that's rotating and colliding around the young central star like a celestial roller derby.

16 Mar 2017

Researchers Propose New Technique to Quantum Measurement Problem

Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic theory that does not describe individual events. Yet when we perform a single measurement, we find a well-defined outcome.

16 Mar 2017

Distant Galaxies in Early Universe Less Influenced by Dark Matter

We see normal matter as brightly shining stars, glowing gas and clouds of dust. But the more elusive dark matter does not emit, absorb or reflect light and can only be observed via its gravitational effects.

16 Mar 2017

New Prototype Device Uses Quantum Keys to Make Secure Mobile Transactions

With the growing popularity of mobile phone apps to pay for purchases at cash registers and gas pumps, users would like to know their personal financial information is safe from cyber-attacks.

16 Mar 2017