At only 1% the age of the Sun, the DS Tuc binary system shows us how a planet might naturally develop before its orbit is disturbed by external forces.
One of the unique but central features of quantum mechanics is the change in a quantum system when it is measured.
At Zhejiang University, China, a team of researchers has discovered that CaPtAs—a noncentrosymmetric compound—is a superconductor, exhibiting evidence for strange properties.
Planetary scientists at Curtin University have shed some light on the tumultuous early days of the largely preserved protoplanet Asteroid 4 Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System.
A new "state of light” has been created by scientists at the University of Dayton that may open up a variety of groundbreaking new applications, such as those of quantum communication protocols.
By Sarah Moore
26 Feb 2020
Scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a new 3D imaging system that utilizes the quantum properties of light to produce images that are 40,000 times sharper than existing technologies.
With quantum technologies as a basis for the future, spaceships and planes could be driven by the momentum of light.
EU-funded scientists have developed encryption chips that use quantum physics to make the internet ‘unhackable’, protecting us against highly sophisticated, novel cyber-attacks.
Using two of the world’s most intense radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers has successfully created over 300 images of planet-creating disks around extremely young stars in the Orion Clouds.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a new, surprising data, suggesting that the settled and smooth “brim” of the disk of Sombrero galaxy disk may be hiding a chaotic past.
For the first time in the field of quantum physics, researchers at the University of Otago have been able to “hold” individual atoms in place and observe complex atomic interactions that have been never seen before.
The equations of quantum mechanics can be used to accurately predict the behavior of an electron in an atom, or how it moves within a solid.
At the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers have found that the key to avoiding dissipations of the preferred electron states, which would render spintronics and advanced quantum computing possible, could be to apply vibrational motion in a periodic way.
Researchers recently visualized the internal structure of ruthenium-88, a rare isotope. This observation throws new light on the internal structure of atomic nuclei, a milestone that could offer a better understanding of the formation of certain chemical elements in nature and their isotopes.
Led by Prof. Dr Frank Stienkemeier and Dr Lukas Bruder, a team of researchers at the Institute of Physics of the University of Freiburg has successfully observed, in real time, ultrafast quantum interferences—or the oscillation patterns—of electrons that occur in the atomic shells of rare gas atoms.
By Matt Pullen
17 Feb 2020