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Saturn’s Planetary Rings May Have Universally Similar Particle Distribution

In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age-old scientific riddle by discovering that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn, have a universally similar particle distribution.

6 Aug 2015

New Model Could Explain Loss of Lithium in Stars

Lithium, the lightest metal, used in batteries and mood-stabilising drugs, is rarer than it should be. Models of the period after the Big Bang explain how it, hydrogen and helium were synthesised in nuclear reactions, before the universe cooled enough for the stars and planets that we see today to come into being.

6 Aug 2015

When Two Same Sized Galaxies Collide Both Produce Stars at a Faster Rate

When two different sized galaxies smash together, the larger galaxy stops the smaller one making new stars, according to a study of more than 20,000 merging galaxies.

6 Aug 2015

Coma Galaxy Cluster Could Contain More Dark Matter than Visible Matter

Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study.

5 Aug 2015

HYPRES Unveils Superconducting Integrated Circuit Fabrication Process for Next Generation Supercomputing Systems

HYPRES, Inc., the Digital Superconductor Company™, announces that it now offers integrated circuit (IC) foundry services with the increased critical current density of 10 kA/cm2 with a minimum junction size of 0.7 micrometer in diameter.

5 Aug 2015

Super Wide-Field Images of Galaxies Reveal Hierarchical Galaxy Assembly Process on Galactic Scales

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam prime-focus camera recently observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors, M82 and NGC3077.

5 Aug 2015

Neutron Stars Rival Black Holes in Producing Ultrafast Jets of Material

Some neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered.

5 Aug 2015

Lowest-Entropy Gas Helps Detect Subtle Quantum Mechanical Effects

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have cooled a gas to the quietest state ever achieved, hoping to detect faint quantum effects lost in the din of colder but noisier fluids.

5 Aug 2015

Changes in Liquid-Like Pattern of Electronic Spin Correlations Precede Onset of Superconductivity

Despite a quarter-century of research since the discovery of the first high-temperature superconductors, scientists still don't have a clear picture of how these materials are able to conduct electricity with no energy loss.

5 Aug 2015

Entropy Engine Employs Quantum Mechanics to Solve Entropy Generation Problem

Whitewood Encryption Systems Inc.®, a developer of next-generation entropy management systems, is pleased to introduce the Entropy Engine™, a new product that is the world’s most cost-effective, quantum-powered random number generator.

4 Aug 2015

Researchers Discover Powerful Jets Blasting from a Double Star System

A super-dense star formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion is shooting out powerful jets of material into space, research suggests.

4 Aug 2015

MSU Hosts Lecture by Renowned Astrophysicist on Black Holes

Award-winning astrophysicist and author Janna Levin will present a free public lecture, “From the Big Bang to Black Holes: Time, the Universe, and Everything,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Museum of the Rockies’ Hager Auditorium.

4 Aug 2015

Scientists Explain Puzzling Electron Heat Loss in Fusion Plasmas

Creating controlled fusion energy entails many challenges, but one of the most basic is heating plasma - hot gas composed of electrons and charged atoms - to extremely high temperatures and then maintaining those temperatures.

4 Aug 2015

Berkeley Lab is Key Player in Creating Sanford Underground Lab and Operating Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments

The Black Hills region in western South Dakota is known for its rich stores of gold and silver. In fact, 41 million ounces of gold and 9 million ounces of silver were pulled from Homestake Mine in Lead, SD between the 1870s and early 2000s. During that time, 370 miles of mine tunnels were created, reaching depths of 8,000 feet.

4 Aug 2015

Many-Body Localized State Observed Using Ultracold Atoms Trapped in Light Crystals

Using ultracold atoms trapped in light crystals, scientists from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and the Weizmann Institute observe a novel state of matter that never thermalizes.

3 Aug 2015

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Saturn’s Planetary Rings May Have Universally Similar Particle Distribution

New Model Could Explain Loss of Lithium in Stars

When Two Same Sized Galaxies Collide Both Produce Stars at a Faster Rate

Coma Galaxy Cluster Could Contain More Dark Matter than Visible Matter

HYPRES Unveils Superconducting Integrated Circuit Fabrication Process for Next Generation Supercomputing Systems

Super Wide-Field Images of Galaxies Reveal Hierarchical Galaxy Assembly Process on Galactic Scales

Neutron Stars Rival Black Holes in Producing Ultrafast Jets of Material

Lowest-Entropy Gas Helps Detect Subtle Quantum Mechanical Effects

Changes in Liquid-Like Pattern of Electronic Spin Correlations Precede Onset of Superconductivity

Entropy Engine Employs Quantum Mechanics to Solve Entropy Generation Problem

Researchers Discover Powerful Jets Blasting from a Double Star System

MSU Hosts Lecture by Renowned Astrophysicist on Black Holes

Scientists Explain Puzzling Electron Heat Loss in Fusion Plasmas

Berkeley Lab is Key Player in Creating Sanford Underground Lab and Operating Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments

Many-Body Localized State Observed Using Ultracold Atoms Trapped in Light Crystals

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

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