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Boise State Professor Explores Distant Galaxies for Greater Understanding of Planet Formation

As Pluto learned in 2006, planetary status — like fame of any kind — can be painfully fleeting. Especially in today’s world, where new planets are being discovered at an incredible rate, and the very definition of a planet is in flux.

5 Feb 2015

Researchers Explore Internal Structure and Interaction Among Galaxies

Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias are studying the evolution and formation of hundreds of near galaxies and have just published new scientific images.

5 Feb 2015

Researchers Investigate Dynamics of Skyrmions on Short Time Scales for First Time

Small magnetic whirls may revolutionize future data storage and information processing if they can be moved rapidly and reliably in small structures. A team of scientists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and TU Berlin, together with colleagues from the Netherlands and Switzerland, has now been able to investigate the dynamics of these whirls experimentally.

4 Feb 2015

Festo Demonstrates New Future Concepts for Superconductor Technology

Festo shows new Future Concepts for superconductor technology. At the Hannover Messe 2015 trade fair, the company will once again be showcasing three new, innovative application concepts.

4 Feb 2015

Anatomic Insights of Gamma Radiation Unravel Some Galactic Mysteries

The anatomy of the Milky Way as seen in gamma light is full of mysteries. For example, there are gigantic bubbles of unknown origin above and below the centre of the Milky Way that emit a lot of this high-energy radiation.

4 Feb 2015

Researchers Discover Generation of Josephson Vortex in Atomic-Layered Superconductors

A research group at the NIMS (Sukekatsu Ushioda, president) International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA, Masakazu Aono, director), consisting of post-doctoral researcher Shunsuke Yoshizawa, MANA researcher Takashi Uchihashi, MANA principal investigator Tomonobu Nakayama, post-doctoral researcher Takuto Kawakami and MANA principal investigator Xiao Hu, and a research team at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo, consisting of post-doctoral researcher Kim Howon and associate professor Yukio Hasegawa, discovered that in an atomic-scale thick superconductor formed on a silicon surface, a single-atom difference in height between atomic layers (atomic step) acts as a Josephson junction that controls the flow of supercurrent.

4 Feb 2015

New Research Provides Key Insights into M51a Spiral Galaxy

Case Western Reserve University astronomers peered deep into space to discover new features of a galaxy that's been sketched and photographed for 170 years.

4 Feb 2015

Collaborative Analysis Finds No Conclusive Evidence of Gravitational Waves from Birth of the Universe

A joint analysis of data from the Planck space mission and the ground-based experiment BICEP2 has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the birth of our universe, despite earlier reports of a possible detection. The collaboration between the teams has resulted in the most precise knowledge yet of what signals from the ancient gravitational waves should look like, aiding future searches.

3 Feb 2015

Galaxies Approaching End of Star Formation Phase Expels Most of Their Gas

Galaxies can die early because the gas they need to make new stars is suddenly ejected, research published today suggests.

2 Feb 2015

Growing Body of Evidence Supports Quantum Criticality Theory

A new study by a team of physicists at Rice University, Zhejiang University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Florida State University and the Max Planck Institute adds to the growing body of evidence supporting a theory that strange electronic behaviors -- including high-temperature superconductivity and heavy fermion physics -- arise from quantum fluctuations of strongly correlated electrons.

31 Jan 2015

New Design Extends Superposition Time of Qubit a Hundredfold

Quantum computers are experimental devices that promise exponential speedups on some computational problems. Where a bit in a classical computer can represent either a 0 or a 1, a quantum bit, or qubit, can represent 0 and 1 simultaneously, letting quantum computers explore multiple problem solutions in parallel. But such “superpositions” of quantum states are, in practice, difficult to maintain.

31 Jan 2015

Researchers Produce Möbius Strips from Polarization of Light

A collaboration between researchers from Canada, Europe, and the United States has experimentally produced Möbius strips from the polarization of light, confirming a theoretical prediction that it is possible for light’s electromagnetic field to assume this peculiar shape.

31 Jan 2015

Quantum Chemical Calculations May Help Produce Future Cancer Drugs

Quantum chemical calculations have been used to solve big mysteries in space. Soon the same calculations may be used to produce tomorrow’s cancer drugs.

31 Jan 2015

Hubble Presents Striking View of Galaxy NGC 7714's Smoke-Ring-Like Structure

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo of NGC 7714 presents an especially striking view of the galaxy's smoke-ring-like structure. The golden loop is made of Sun-like stars that have been pulled deep into space, far from the galaxy's center. The galaxy is located approximately 100 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Pisces.

31 Jan 2015

Proposed New Fundamental Particle Could Explain Why Dark Matter Has Not Been Detected

Researchers at the University of Southampton have proposed a new fundamental particle which could explain why no one has managed to detect 'Dark Matter', the elusive missing 85 per cent of the Universe's mass.

31 Jan 2015

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Boise State Professor Explores Distant Galaxies for Greater Understanding of Planet Formation

Researchers Explore Internal Structure and Interaction Among Galaxies

Researchers Investigate Dynamics of Skyrmions on Short Time Scales for First Time

Festo Demonstrates New Future Concepts for Superconductor Technology

Anatomic Insights of Gamma Radiation Unravel Some Galactic Mysteries

Researchers Discover Generation of Josephson Vortex in Atomic-Layered Superconductors

New Research Provides Key Insights into M51a Spiral Galaxy

Collaborative Analysis Finds No Conclusive Evidence of Gravitational Waves from Birth of the Universe

Galaxies Approaching End of Star Formation Phase Expels Most of Their Gas

Growing Body of Evidence Supports Quantum Criticality Theory

New Design Extends Superposition Time of Qubit a Hundredfold

Researchers Produce Möbius Strips from Polarization of Light

Quantum Chemical Calculations May Help Produce Future Cancer Drugs

Hubble Presents Striking View of Galaxy NGC 7714's Smoke-Ring-Like Structure

Proposed New Fundamental Particle Could Explain Why Dark Matter Has Not Been Detected

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