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Scientists Image Rare Environment Where Stars Could Collide

Scientists have imaged a cluster of stars, heavily obscured by material in our galaxy, where stars are so densely packed that it is likely a rare environment where stars can collide. "It's a bit like a stellar billiards table; where the probability of collisions depends on the size of the table and on the number of billiard balls on it," said Francesco R. Ferraro of the University of Bologna (Italy), one of the team members who used the Gemini Observatory to make the observations.

18 Jun 2015

EPS-QEOD Honors Swiss CSEM Engineer with 2015 Thesis Prize

The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) has awarded the 2015 Thesis Prize for applied aspects to Dr. Tobias Herr.

18 Jun 2015

First Generation of Stars Could Lurk Within Brightest Galaxy in the Early Universe

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered by far the brightest galaxy yet found in the early universe and found strong evidence that examples of the first generation of stars lurk within it.

18 Jun 2015

VLA Helps Detect Long-Sought Radio Emission from Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy

Thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have detected what they believe is the long-sought radio emission coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of one of our closest neighboring galaxies. Evidence for the black hole's existence previously came only from studies of stellar motions in the galaxy and from X-ray observations.

18 Jun 2015

Theoretical Prediction of Existence of New Quantum Matter

Finland's Aalto University researchers have succeeded to predict, in theory, that superconducting surfaces can become topological superconductors when magnetic iron atoms are deposited on the surface in a regular pattern. They used the latest mathematical and physical models to predict the existence of a topological superconducting state on metallic superconducting surfaces and thin films. The results were recently published in the Physics Review Letters science journal.

18 Jun 2015

InVisage Opens Fully Automated QuantumFilm Sensor Manufacturing Facility in Taiwan

InVisage Technologies Inc., the leading developer of quantum dot camera sensors, opened its first high-volume, fully automated QuantumFilm sensor manufacturing facility in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan.

18 Jun 2015

Zecotek's LFS Scintillation Crystals Demonstrate More Precise Coincidence Time Resolution

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for industrial, healthcare and scientific markets, is pleased to announce that the Company's patented LFS scintillation crystals achieved a more precise coincident time resolution (CTR) when compared to competing crystals in tests conducted by a CERN research group, on crystals with dimensions used in commercial positron emission tomography (PET) medical scanners.

17 Jun 2015

Physicists Validate Novel Laser-Driven Means of Generating Bright, Highly Energetic X-Ray Beams

Physicists at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have validated a novel laser-driven means of generating bright and highly energetic X-ray beams. The method opens up new ways of imaging the fine structure of matter.

17 Jun 2015

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics to Host the Convergence conference

What happens when more than 200 physicists from around the globe gather to discuss the future of the field at the world’s largest independent theoretical physics research centre? Convergence.

17 Jun 2015

NetDocuments to Increase Data Center Security using QuintessenceLabs’ Quantum Cyber-Security

Quantum cyber-security is helping companies tackle the increasing number and sophistication of cyber-attacks. Last week, leading Cloud-Based Document & Email Management provider, NetDocuments, announced a new security architecture integrating quantum-derived random numbers to secure legal documents in the cloud.

17 Jun 2015

Black Holes May Not Necessarily Be Ruthless Killers

According to the professor of physics at The Ohio State University, the recently proposed idea that black holes have “firewalls” that destroy all they touch has a loophole.

17 Jun 2015

Slowing Down of Time Could Explain Transition from Quantum Behavior to Classical World

In 1915 Albert Einstein formulated the theory of general relativity which fundamentally changed our understanding of gravity. He explained gravity as the manifestation of the curvature of space and time.

17 Jun 2015

Closer to Understanding Blinking of Quantum Dots

Quantum dots are nanoparticles of semiconductor that can be tuned to glow in a rainbow of colors. Since their discovery in the 1980s, these remarkable nanoparticles have held out tantalizing prospects for all kinds of new technologies, ranging from paint-on lighting materials and solar cells to quantum computer chips, biological markers, and even lasers and communications technologies.

16 Jun 2015

Mainz Energy-Recovering Superconducting Accelerator Launches Into Next Phase

As the production of two superconducting accelerator modules for the future electron accelerator MESA at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) gets on its way, the MESA project launches into its next phase. MESA is based on a unique concept for recovering a part of the energy that is required for accelerating the electron beam.

16 Jun 2015

NOEMA Telescope Provides Spectacular View of 'Eye of Medusa'

NOEMA, the most powerful millimetre radio telescope of the Northern Hemisphere, has unveiled its first astronomical image: a unique and spectacular view of a previously unknown region of extreme star formation in the 'Medusa merger' - a luminous collision of two galaxies at more than 100 million light years from Earth.

16 Jun 2015

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Scientists Image Rare Environment Where Stars Could Collide

EPS-QEOD Honors Swiss CSEM Engineer with 2015 Thesis Prize

First Generation of Stars Could Lurk Within Brightest Galaxy in the Early Universe

VLA Helps Detect Long-Sought Radio Emission from Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy

Theoretical Prediction of Existence of New Quantum Matter

InVisage Opens Fully Automated QuantumFilm Sensor Manufacturing Facility in Taiwan

Zecotek's LFS Scintillation Crystals Demonstrate More Precise Coincidence Time Resolution

Physicists Validate Novel Laser-Driven Means of Generating Bright, Highly Energetic X-Ray Beams

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics to Host the Convergence conference

NetDocuments to Increase Data Center Security using QuintessenceLabs’ Quantum Cyber-Security

Black Holes May Not Necessarily Be Ruthless Killers

Slowing Down of Time Could Explain Transition from Quantum Behavior to Classical World

Closer to Understanding Blinking of Quantum Dots

Mainz Energy-Recovering Superconducting Accelerator Launches Into Next Phase

NOEMA Telescope Provides Spectacular View of 'Eye of Medusa'

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