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Researchers Employ Optical Attenuators to Extend Range of Photon-Counting Detectors

Precise measurements of optical power enable activities from fiber-optic communications to laser manufacturing and biomedical imaging — anything requiring a reliable source of light. This situation calls for light-measuring (radiometric) standards that can operate over a wide range of power levels.

6 Nov 2015

Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave Order can Coexist in a Single NbSe2 Metal Layer

An international team led by Miguel M. Ugeda (CIC nanoGUNE) and Michael F. Crommie (UC. Berkeley (USA)) has demonstrated the coexistence of superconductivity and charge density wave (CDW) order in a single layer of NbSe2, a model transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) metal.

6 Nov 2015

Unexpected Quantum Effects Increase Charge Carriers, Boost Harvesting of Energy

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found a way to significantly boost the energy that can be harnessed from sunlight, a finding that could lead to better solar cells or light detectors.

6 Nov 2015

Researchers Realize Layer-By-Layer Etching in Superconducting One-Monolayer FeSe Films

Iron selenide (FeSe) is an attracting superconducting material since the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) is enhanced from 8 K in bulk form toward 65 K in one-monolayer form.

6 Nov 2015

Scientists Measure Antiproton Interactions

Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists have for the first time measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons. Like the force that holds ordinary protons together within the nuclei of atoms, the force between antiprotons is attractive and strong.

5 Nov 2015

Astronomers Image Protostars Undergoing Rapid-Fire Succession of Growth Spurts

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered an adolescent protostar that is undergoing a rapid-fire succession of growth spurts. Evidence for this fitful youth is seen in a pair of intermittent jets streaming away from the star's poles.

5 Nov 2015

Supercomputers Can Help Interpret Large Hadron Collider Data

Argonne physicists are using Mira to perform simulations of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments with a leadership-class supercomputer for the first time, shedding light on a path forward for interpreting future LHC data. Researchers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) helped the team optimize their code for the supercomputer, which has enabled them to simulate billions of particle collisions faster than ever before.

5 Nov 2015

MSU Professor Elected Fellow of American Physical Society for Outstanding Physics Research

A Montana State University professor’s research into what happens when things collide — at the atomic level — has earned him prestigious recognition from the American Physical Society.

5 Nov 2015

NASA Telescopes Reveal Giant Gathering of Galaxies in Remote Part of Universe

Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe, thanks to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy cluster, located 8.5 billion light-years away, is the most massive structure yet found at such great distances.

5 Nov 2015

Study Could Help Detect Weather Patterns in Earth-like Exoplanets

Weather patterns in a mysterious world beyond our solar system have been revealed for the first time, a study suggests.

4 Nov 2015

Scientists Build Massive Detectors to Uncover the Secrets of Neutrinos

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, trillions of neutrinos will fly through your body.

4 Nov 2015

Astronomers Discover Stable Structure Around Massive, Newly Forming Star

Stars count lightweights and heavyweights among their number. All are born in clouds of gas and dust, but the more massive a baby star, the earlier nuclear fusion ignites in its core. And the radiation pressure produced here should really purge its surroundings and thus prevent the infall of matter which will allow the star to grow bigger. Some stars nevertheless manage to reach masses of more than a hundred times that of our Sun.

4 Nov 2015

Danish Researcher Recognized for Outstanding Research on Processes Surrounding Formation of Stars, Planets

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awards a silver medal every year to a younger Danish researcher for an outstanding basic science achievement. In 2015, the silver medal goes to Associate Professor Jes K. Jørgensen from the Niels Bohr Institute and the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, for his research into the processes surrounding the formation of stars and planets.

4 Nov 2015

Einstein's General Relativity is the Greatest Discovery of all Time, Asserts 'Common Sense'

Is Einstein's general relativity, now one hundred years old, the greatest discovery of all time? 'Common Sense,' a recently released book by Ilexa Yardley, answers this question with an affirmative 'yes.'

3 Nov 2015

University of Liverpool to Contribute to Plasma Structure Design for European Plasma Accelerator

The University of Liverpool is part of a £3M European research consortium to develop a novel plasma particle accelerator.

3 Nov 2015

Quantum Science News

Researchers Employ Optical Attenuators to Extend Range of Photon-Counting Detectors

Superconductivity and Charge Density Wave Order can Coexist in a Single NbSe2 Metal Layer

Unexpected Quantum Effects Increase Charge Carriers, Boost Harvesting of Energy

Researchers Realize Layer-By-Layer Etching in Superconducting One-Monolayer FeSe Films

Scientists Measure Antiproton Interactions

Astronomers Image Protostars Undergoing Rapid-Fire Succession of Growth Spurts

Supercomputers Can Help Interpret Large Hadron Collider Data

MSU Professor Elected Fellow of American Physical Society for Outstanding Physics Research

NASA Telescopes Reveal Giant Gathering of Galaxies in Remote Part of Universe

Study Could Help Detect Weather Patterns in Earth-like Exoplanets

Scientists Build Massive Detectors to Uncover the Secrets of Neutrinos

Astronomers Discover Stable Structure Around Massive, Newly Forming Star

Danish Researcher Recognized for Outstanding Research on Processes Surrounding Formation of Stars, Planets

Einstein's General Relativity is the Greatest Discovery of all Time, Asserts 'Common Sense'

University of Liverpool to Contribute to Plasma Structure Design for European Plasma Accelerator

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