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Scientists Demonstrate Increased Coupling of Microwaves in Specially Designed Superconducting Cavity

In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of electrons from an excited state to a relaxed state on demand using a device that served as a microwave “tuning fork.”

16 Feb 2016

Scientists to Describe Ongoing Global Collaborations to Explore Dark Matter

Technological advances are ushering in a new era in the search for fundamental physical particles, including dark matter.

15 Feb 2016

LDE Facility Allows Perform Material Behaviour Studies over Extended Period of Time

Scientists at the world’s premier science conference – the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting – will this year be discussing the advances enabled by the UK’s pioneering Long-Duration Experiment facility (LDE).

15 Feb 2016

University of New Mexico Professor Delivers Presentation on Quantum-Limited Measurements

Cartlon M. Caves, a Distinguished Professor of physics at the University of New Mexico, will present "Quantum-limited measurements: One physicist's crooked path from quantum optics to quantum information" at 4 p.m. today, Friday, Feb. 12, in the Paul Sharrah Lecture Hall, PHYS 133.

15 Feb 2016

AAAS Meeting 2016: Rice Professor Explains Formation of Planetary System around Distant Binary Star

A Rice University researcher discussed images that may show the formation of a planet — or a planetary system — around a distant binary star at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13.

15 Feb 2016

Rare Supernova Impostor Discovered in Nearby Galaxy

Breanna Binder, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and lecturer in the School of STEM at UW Bothell, spends her days pondering X-rays.

15 Feb 2016

New Study Explores Quantum Mechanics

Here's a love story at the smallest scales imaginable: particles of light. It is possible to have particles that are so intimately linked that a change to one affects the other, even when they are separated at a distance.

15 Feb 2016

Dark Cosmology Centre Works on Finding out Gravitational Wave Sources

Today it was announced that gravitational waves, a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, have been directly detected for the first time and astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute’s Dark Cosmology Centre have been involved in trying to find out where they came from.

15 Feb 2016

Daya Bay Collaboration Provides New Measurement of Total Antineutrino Flux

Members of the International Daya Bay Collaboration, who track the production and flavor-shifting behavior of electron antineutrinos generated at a nuclear power complex in China, have obtained the most precise measurement of these subatomic particles' energy spectrum ever recorded.

15 Feb 2016

MPQ Scientists Use Optoelectrical Sisyphus Technique to Produce Extremely Cold Gas

The study of ultracold molecules is a science of its own. Ultracold molecules provide the possibility to investigate fundamental chemical processes or to explore physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. The only snag is the fact that molecules are very difficult to cool down to really low temperatures because of their manifold vibrational and rotational states.

12 Feb 2016

University of Southampton Researcher to Explore Structure and Evolution of the Universe

A University of Southampton researcher will explore the structure and evolution of the Universe, as part of the ASTRO-H X-ray space telescope mission being launched in Japan this week.

12 Feb 2016

Team Led by GGC Physicist Conducts Innovative Black Hole Research

Black holes are the subject of much fascination, not just in science but also in popular media. For example, the 2014 movie "Interstellar" portrays a fast-rotating, supermassive black hole, into which the protagonist falls in order to probe its center.

12 Feb 2016

New Hubble Space Telescope Image Reveals Record-Breaking Supermassive Black Hole

The placid appearance of NGC 4889 can fool the unsuspecting observer. But the elliptical galaxy, pictured in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, harbours a dark secret. At its heart lurks one of the most massive black holes ever discovered.

12 Feb 2016

LIGO Signal Helps Researchers Observe Collision of Two Massive Black Holes

Almost 100 years ago today, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time that are set off by extremely violent, cosmic cataclysms in the early universe. With his knowledge of the universe and the technology available in 1916, Einstein assumed that such ripples would be “vanishingly small” and nearly impossible to detect. The astronomical discoveries and technological advances over the past century have changed those prospects.

12 Feb 2016

Researchers Analyze Stability of Optical Atomic Clock Using New Stable Laser System

Researchers from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have thoroughly analyzed the noise processes in their optical lattice clock with neutral strontium atoms. This analysis proves that their optical atomic clock has reached the best stability worldwide thanks to a newly developed laser system whose frequency is extremely stable. This allows high-precision measurements in a short time and considerably facilitates the future reduction of the total measurement uncertainty down to a few parts in 10–18.

11 Feb 2016

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Scientists Demonstrate Increased Coupling of Microwaves in Specially Designed Superconducting Cavity

Scientists to Describe Ongoing Global Collaborations to Explore Dark Matter

LDE Facility Allows Perform Material Behaviour Studies over Extended Period of Time

University of New Mexico Professor Delivers Presentation on Quantum-Limited Measurements

AAAS Meeting 2016: Rice Professor Explains Formation of Planetary System around Distant Binary Star

Rare Supernova Impostor Discovered in Nearby Galaxy

New Study Explores Quantum Mechanics

Dark Cosmology Centre Works on Finding out Gravitational Wave Sources

Daya Bay Collaboration Provides New Measurement of Total Antineutrino Flux

MPQ Scientists Use Optoelectrical Sisyphus Technique to Produce Extremely Cold Gas

University of Southampton Researcher to Explore Structure and Evolution of the Universe

Team Led by GGC Physicist Conducts Innovative Black Hole Research

New Hubble Space Telescope Image Reveals Record-Breaking Supermassive Black Hole

LIGO Signal Helps Researchers Observe Collision of Two Massive Black Holes

Researchers Analyze Stability of Optical Atomic Clock Using New Stable Laser System

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