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New Way to Accelerate Positrons Could Help Boost Energy of Future Linear Particle Colliders

A study led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles has demonstrated a new, efficient way to accelerate positrons, the antimatter opposites of electrons.

27 Aug 2015

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Remarkable Complexity of Twin Jet Nebula

The shimmering colours visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The new image highlights the nebula’s shells and its knots of expanding gas in striking detail.

27 Aug 2015

Most Unusual Organisms Found on Earth Could Help Predict Extraterrestrial Life

Bizarre creatures that go years without water. Others that can survive the vacuum of open space. Some of the most unusual organisms found on Earth provide insights for Washington State University planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch to predict what life could be like elsewhere in the universe.

27 Aug 2015

Quantum Mechanics used as the Basis to Study Photosynthesis Utilizing Supercomputers

Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country are using high-performance computing to simulate the processes that take place during the first moments of photosynthesis.

27 Aug 2015

Arrhythmic, Massive Outbursts Observed in Dying Stars

Some dying stars suffer from ‘irregular heartbeats’, research led by astronomers at the University of Warwick has discovered.

27 Aug 2015

$Atomically Thin Graphene Diffraction Masks Help Demonstrate Quantum Mechanical Nature of Massive Objects$

Atomically Thin Graphene Diffraction Masks Help Demonstrate Quantum Mechanical Nature of Massive Objects

The quantum mechanical wave nature of matter is the basis for a number of modern technologies like high resolution electron microscopy, neutron-based studies on solid state materials or highly sensitive inertial sensors working with atoms.

26 Aug 2015

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Reveals Exciting New Details of Dwarf Planet Ceres

The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the small world's features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres' tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided fractures.

26 Aug 2015

Global Quantum Dot Market Forecast to Reach $4.6 Billion by 2021

New research "Quantum Dot Market: Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2015 to 2021" says as next generation devices, systems, and displays are triggered by quantum dots, the global quantum dot market worth $306 million in 2014 will hit $4.6 billion by 2021.

26 Aug 2015

Water Molecules Confined in ‘Buckyballs’ Produce Supramolecular Endofullerenes for Detecting Ortho–Para Conversion

New research by scientists from the University of Southampton has found that water molecules react differently to electric fields, which could provide a new way to study spin isomers at the single-molecule level.

26 Aug 2015

Scientists Identify Volatile Gas That Drove Lunar Fire Fountain Eruptions

Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place on the Moon's surface. Now, scientists from Brown University and the Carnegie Institution for Science have identified the volatile gas that drove those eruptions.

25 Aug 2015

Physicists Make Advances in Quantum Logic Gates for Quantum Computers

A team of physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance, described in a paper published this week in Nature Physics, has to do with a specific part of computer circuitry known as a "logic gate."

25 Aug 2015

Optical Tunnelling of Electron from an Atom Could Occur Instantaneously

The combination of ab-initio numerical experiments and theory shows that optical tunnelling of an electron from an atom can occur instantaneously.

25 Aug 2015

Optical Nanofiber Inserted into Cold Atomic Cloud for Measuring Temperature

Experimental quantum physics often resides in the coldest regimes found in the universe, where the lack of large thermal disturbances allows quantum effects to flourish. A key ingredient to these experiments is being able to measure just how cold the system of interest is.

24 Aug 2015

American Astronomical Society Honors NASA Goddard Scientist with 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize

The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society awarded its 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize to Dr. Geronimo Luis Villanueva of the Catholic University of America, Washington and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

24 Aug 2015

Researchers Plan to Flush out Dark Energy Hiding in the Form of 'Chameleons'

If dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical particles called "chameleons," Holger Müller and his team at the University of California, Berkeley, plan to flush them out.

24 Aug 2015

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New Way to Accelerate Positrons Could Help Boost Energy of Future Linear Particle Colliders

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Remarkable Complexity of Twin Jet Nebula

Most Unusual Organisms Found on Earth Could Help Predict Extraterrestrial Life

Quantum Mechanics used as the Basis to Study Photosynthesis Utilizing Supercomputers

Arrhythmic, Massive Outbursts Observed in Dying Stars

Atomically Thin Graphene Diffraction Masks Help Demonstrate Quantum Mechanical Nature of Massive Objects

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Reveals Exciting New Details of Dwarf Planet Ceres

Global Quantum Dot Market Forecast to Reach $4.6 Billion by 2021

Water Molecules Confined in ‘Buckyballs’ Produce Supramolecular Endofullerenes for Detecting Ortho–Para Conversion

Scientists Identify Volatile Gas That Drove Lunar Fire Fountain Eruptions

Physicists Make Advances in Quantum Logic Gates for Quantum Computers

Optical Tunnelling of Electron from an Atom Could Occur Instantaneously

Optical Nanofiber Inserted into Cold Atomic Cloud for Measuring Temperature

American Astronomical Society Honors NASA Goddard Scientist with 2015 Harold C. Urey Prize

Researchers Plan to Flush out Dark Energy Hiding in the Form of 'Chameleons'

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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