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IARPA Awards IBM Scientists Major Grant to Advance Building Blocks for Universal Quantum Computer

IBM announced today that the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) program has notified IBM that it will award its scientists a major multi-year research grant to advance the building blocks for a universal quantum computer.

10 Dec 2015

LAXPC Onboard ASTROSAT Helps Observe Black Hole X-Ray Binaries, Supernova Remnants

ASTROSAT is India's first dedicated science space mission which was launched on 28 September 2015. The Large Area X-ray Propositional Counter (LAXPC), designed and developed at TIFR, Mumbai, is one of the major payloads on ASTROSAT.

9 Dec 2015

RHIC Physicists Exploring Ways to Cool Accelerated Ion Beams and Keep Particles Tightly Packed

Accelerated ion beams heat up. As the particles that make up the beam move around and scatter off of one another, some speed up while others slow down, leading to a wide spread in their velocities.

9 Dec 2015

Titan Supercomputer Helps Explore the Physics of Type Ia Supernovas

Exploding stars may seem like an unlikely yardstick for measuring the vast distances of space, but astronomers have been mapping the universe for decades using these stellar eruptions, called supernovas, with surprising accuracy.

9 Dec 2015

Hebrew University's Solution to the Galactic Radioactive Plutonium Puzzle

In a letter published in the prestigious journal Nature Physics, a team of scientists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests a solution to the Galactic radioactive plutonium puzzle.

9 Dec 2015

Peter Zoller Honored with 2016 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) announced that the 2016 Herbert Walther Award will be presented to Peter Zoller, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universität Innsbruck, Austria, for his pioneering discoveries and development of new interdisciplinary quantum science that unifies quantum optics, atomic, molecular, optical and condensed matter which have opened new paths toward future applications in quantum technology.

9 Dec 2015

Behind-The-Scenes Look at New Horizons Mission to Pluto

Hundreds of students, faculty and community members braved a foggy, rainy night Dec. 2 for a behind-the-scenes look at the New Horizons mission to Pluto, given by mission scientists Cathy Olkin and Ann Harch in the Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall.

9 Dec 2015

Hubble Helps Solve Mystery of 'Born Again' Stars

University of Texas astronomer Natalie Gosnell has used Hubble Space Telescope to better understand why some stars aren’t evolving as predicted. These so-called “blue stragglers” look hotter and bluer than they should for their advanced age. It’s almost as it they were somehow reinvigorated to look much younger than they really are.

8 Dec 2015

Canada’s TRIUMF and Japan’s KEK Enter New Partnership

At a signing ceremony hosted on Friday, December 4 at the Canadian Embassy in Japan, the heads of Canada’s TRIUMF and Japan’s KEK signed a new partnership agreement to significantly enhance research collaborations between the two centres and promote joint projects in the areas of subatomic physics, accelerator science, and materials science.

8 Dec 2015

Researchers Employ Quantum Mechanical Phenomenon to Design Tunnel Field Effect Transistor

One of the greatest challenges in the evolution of electronics has been to reduce power consumption during transistor switching operation. In a study recently reported in Nature, engineers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with Rice University, have demonstrated a new transistor that switches at only 0.1 volts and reduces power dissipation by over 90% compared to state-of-the-art silicon transistors (MOSFETs).

8 Dec 2015

SwRI Planetary Scientist to Present 2015 Shoemaker Lecture on The Calm Before the Storm

During the formation of the solar system, two waves of planetary bombardment likely played a significant role in planetary evolution. The calm between the barrages is the focus of an invited lecture that Dr. William Bottke, a planetary scientist from Southwest Research Institute, is presenting at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Dec. 14, at 4 p.m. Pacific Time in San Francisco.

8 Dec 2015

New Understanding of How Particles are Produced in RHIC Collisions

UPTON, NY-Peering into the seething soup of primordial matter created in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/)-an "atom smasher" dedicated to nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory-scientists have come to a new understanding of how particles are produced in these collisions. This understanding represents a paradigm shift consistent with the presence of a saturated state of gluons, super-dense fields of the glue-like particles that bind the building blocks of ordinary matter.

8 Dec 2015

Ferromagnetic Detector Detects Spin Current on Topological Insulator Surfaces at Room Temperature

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time reported the electrical detection of spin current on topological insulator surfaces at room temperature by employing a ferromagnetic detector. The findings have been published in the journal Nano Letters.

8 Dec 2015

ALMA Discovers Tenuous Molecular Gas Cloud

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed. They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in front of bright radio sources. This radio shadow revealed the composition and conditions of diffuse gas in the Milky Way galaxy.

7 Dec 2015

DFG to Continue Funding for Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model: From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will continue its funding for the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1044 "The Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model: From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei" at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz for a further four years by making approximately EUR 12.5 million available from January 1, 2016 for research on fundamental aspects of the subatomic world. The participating researchers work at the Mainz particle accelerator MAMI while also developing experiments to run on the future particle accelerator MESA. In addition, the Mainz-based team will continue to cooperate closely with the BES III Experiment in Beijing in China.

7 Dec 2015

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IARPA Awards IBM Scientists Major Grant to Advance Building Blocks for Universal Quantum Computer

LAXPC Onboard ASTROSAT Helps Observe Black Hole X-Ray Binaries, Supernova Remnants

RHIC Physicists Exploring Ways to Cool Accelerated Ion Beams and Keep Particles Tightly Packed

Titan Supercomputer Helps Explore the Physics of Type Ia Supernovas

Hebrew University's Solution to the Galactic Radioactive Plutonium Puzzle

Peter Zoller Honored with 2016 Herbert Walther Award

Behind-The-Scenes Look at New Horizons Mission to Pluto

Hubble Helps Solve Mystery of 'Born Again' Stars

Canada’s TRIUMF and Japan’s KEK Enter New Partnership

Researchers Employ Quantum Mechanical Phenomenon to Design Tunnel Field Effect Transistor

SwRI Planetary Scientist to Present 2015 Shoemaker Lecture on The Calm Before the Storm

New Understanding of How Particles are Produced in RHIC Collisions

Ferromagnetic Detector Detects Spin Current on Topological Insulator Surfaces at Room Temperature

ALMA Discovers Tenuous Molecular Gas Cloud

DFG to Continue Funding for Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model: From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei

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