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NSF Renews Cooperative Agreement with UW—Madison to Operate IceCube Neutrino Telescope

The National Science Foundation today announced that it has renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin—Madison to operate IceCube, a massive neutrino telescope buried deep in the ice beneath the South Pole.

31 Mar 2016

Chip-Based Atomic Physics Shows Promise to Make Second Quantum Revolution

A University of Oklahoma-led team of physicists believes chip-based atomic physics holds promise to make the second quantum revolution—the engineering of quantum matter with arbitrary precision—a reality. With recent technological advances in fabrication and trapping, hybrid quantum systems are emerging as ideal platforms for a diverse range of studies in quantum control, quantum simulation and computing.

31 Mar 2016

Penn State-Led Research Group to Build Cutting-Edge Instrument to Detect Exoplanets

A Penn State-led research group has been selected by NASA's Astrophysics Division to build a $10-million, cutting-edge instrument to detect planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.

30 Mar 2016

High-Resolution Virtual Radio Telescope Provides New Insights into Quasars

Astronomers using an orbiting radio telescope in conjunction with four ground-based radio telescopes have achieved the highest resolution, or ability to discern fine detail, of any astronomical observation ever made. Their achievement produced a pair of scientific surprises that promise to advance the understanding of quasars, supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies.

30 Mar 2016

Researchers Hunt for Exact Location of Origin of Future Gravitational Waves

In February, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced it had detected gravitational waves for the first time, confirming the last prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.

30 Mar 2016

MIPT Researchers Create Superconducting Two-Qubit Feedback-Controlled Circuit

A research group from MIPT’s Artificial Quantum System Lab and Collective Use Center developed and tested Russia’s first superconducting two-qubit feedback-controlled circuit, an upgrade to qubit — the main component of future quantum computers — that was developed by MIPT’s scientists in 2015.

30 Mar 2016

Polarization Helps Understand How Color Charges of Quarks and Gluons Affect Their Microcosmic Interactions

The proton sounds like a simple object, but it's not. Inside, there's a teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons with properties such as spin and "color" charge that contribute to the particle's seemingly simplistic role as a building block of visible matter.

29 Mar 2016

Researchers Suggest Quantum Nature of Hydrogen Strongly Affects Hydrogen Sulphur Superconductor

Researchers have found that quantum effects are the reason that hydrogen sulphide – which has the distinct smell of rotten eggs –behaves as a superconductor at record-breaking temperatures, which may aid in the search for room temperature superconductors.

29 Mar 2016

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Finds New Clues by Observing Hot Jupiter

The last decade has seen a bonanza of exoplanet discoveries. Nearly 2,000 exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- have been confirmed so far, and more than 5,000 candidate exoplanets have been identified. Many of these exotic worlds belong to a class known as "hot Jupiters." These are gas giants like Jupiter but much hotter, with orbits that take them feverishly close to their stars.

29 Mar 2016

Special Topic Highlights Progress in Unconventional Superconductivity, Topological Quantum Phenomena

Unconventional superconductivity and topological quantum phenomena are two frontier research directions of condensed matter physics. A special topic published in 2016(5) issue of Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy collected several works covering important progress in these two directions. Superconductivity was discovered in Hg in 1911 by the group of Kamerling Onnes in Leiden (Holland).

28 Mar 2016

Researchers Overcome a Key Challenge to Quantum Computing

Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realising a challenging circuit -- the quantum Fredkin gate -- for the first time.

28 Mar 2016

New Study Shows Sun Should Experience Small Superflare Every Millennium

Earth is often struck by solar eruptions. These eruptions consist of energetic particles that are hurled away from the Sun into space, where those directed towards Earth encounter the magnetic field around our planet. When these eruptions interact with Earth's magnetic field they cause beautiful auroras. A poetic phenomenon that reminds us, that our closest star is an unpredictable neighbor.

25 Mar 2016

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NSF Renews Cooperative Agreement with UW—Madison to Operate IceCube Neutrino Telescope

Chip-Based Atomic Physics Shows Promise to Make Second Quantum Revolution

Penn State-Led Research Group to Build Cutting-Edge Instrument to Detect Exoplanets

High-Resolution Virtual Radio Telescope Provides New Insights into Quasars

Researchers Hunt for Exact Location of Origin of Future Gravitational Waves

MIPT Researchers Create Superconducting Two-Qubit Feedback-Controlled Circuit

Polarization Helps Understand How Color Charges of Quarks and Gluons Affect Their Microcosmic Interactions

Researchers Suggest Quantum Nature of Hydrogen Strongly Affects Hydrogen Sulphur Superconductor

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Finds New Clues by Observing Hot Jupiter

Special Topic Highlights Progress in Unconventional Superconductivity, Topological Quantum Phenomena

Researchers Overcome a Key Challenge to Quantum Computing

New Study Shows Sun Should Experience Small Superflare Every Millennium

Magnetars Could Elucidate Energy Source Behind Two Unusual Stellar Explosions

LIGO Co-Founder Kip Thorne to Give Talk on Gravitational Waves

Study Results Help Build Foundations of Galaxy Evolution Studies

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