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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

ESF's Report on Foresight Activity on Research in Quantum Biology Presented in Brussels

The scientific community represented by about forty researchers and officials from research funding organisations gathered in Brussels on 23 January 2015 to present the outcomes of the European Science Foundation's (ESF) Foresight Activity on Research in Quantum Biology (FarQBio).

31 Jan 2015

Hubble Captures Striking View of Spiral Galaxy NGC 7714

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and the dramatic interaction has twisted its spiral arms out of shape, dragged streams of material out into space, and triggered bright bursts of star formation.

30 Jan 2015

New 3-D Map of Cas A Supernova Remnant’s Interior

Cassiopeia A, or Cas A for short, is one of the most well studied supernova remnants in our galaxy. But it still holds major surprises. Harvard-Smithsonian and Dartmouth College astronomers have generated a new 3-D map of its interior using the astronomical equivalent of a CAT scan. They found that the Cas A supernova remnant is composed of a collection of about a half dozen massive cavities - or "bubbles."

30 Jan 2015

Construction Begins for JUNO Neutrino Experiment

The construction of the facilities for the JUNO neutrino experiment has been initiated with an official groundbreaking ceremony near the south Chinese city of Jiangmen.

30 Jan 2015

Novel Technique to Extend Storage Time of Quantum Memories

The idea of computing systems based on controlling atomic spins just got a boost from new research performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory.

30 Jan 2015

Researchers Engineer Quantum State Sensitive to the Lorentz-Violating Effects

Ever since Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity in 1905, physics and cosmology have been based on the assumption that space looks the same in all directions - that it's not squeezed in one direction relative to another.

30 Jan 2015

New X-ray Polarimeter to Study Black Holes and Neutron Stars

What are the high-energy processes in the Universe that occur in the immediate vicinity of a black hole? To study a question like this one cannot simply utilize a high-resolution telescope. Even with the best available telescopes, it is difficult or even impossible to directly resolve the regions of interest and the energies emitted from such objects extend to much higher energies, e.g. X-rays.

30 Jan 2015

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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

ESF's Report on Foresight Activity on Research in Quantum Biology Presented in Brussels

Hubble Captures Striking View of Spiral Galaxy NGC 7714

New 3-D Map of Cas A Supernova Remnant’s Interior

Construction Begins for JUNO Neutrino Experiment

Novel Technique to Extend Storage Time of Quantum Memories

Researchers Engineer Quantum State Sensitive to the Lorentz-Violating Effects

New X-ray Polarimeter to Study Black Holes and Neutron Stars

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

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

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