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Mathematicians Develop New Method that Simplifies Big Data Using Ideas from Quantum Theory

Analysing the large volumes of data gathered by modern businesses and public services is problematic. Traditionally, relationships between the different parts of a network have been represented as simple links, regardless of how many ways they can actually interact, potentially loosing precious information.

27 Apr 2015

Entangled Photons Cast a New Light on Quantum Cause and Effect

Does taking a drug and then getting better mean that the drug made you better? Did that tax cut really stimulate the economy or did it recover on its own? The problem of answering such questions – of inferring causal relationships from correlations – reaches across the sciences, and beyond.

27 Apr 2015

AAS/SPD and AGU/SPA to Meet in Indiana for First Triennial Earth-Sun Summit

The American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division (AAS/SPD) and the American Geophysical Union's Space Physics and Aeronomy Section (AGU/SPA) will meet together at the Westin Indianapolis in Indiana for the first Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), 26-30 April 2015.

25 Apr 2015

Some Galaxies Can Be Thrown Away From Their Host Clusters

Astronomers think, that there are dozens of billions undetectable free floating planets that straggle along our Milky Way galaxy, being not gravitationally bound to any star.

25 Apr 2015

Hubble's 25th Anniversary Celebrated with Vibrant Image of Westerlund 2 Star Cluster

The glittering tapestry of young stars flaring to life in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image aptly resembles an exploding shell in a fireworks display. This vibrant image of the star cluster Westerlund 2 has been released to celebrate Hubble's 25th year in orbit and a quarter of a century of new discoveries, stunning images and outstanding science.

25 Apr 2015

Quantum Correlated Light Beams Help Overcome Fundamental Detection Limit of Microcantilever-Based Sensors

Thermal imaging, microscopy and ultra-trace sensing could take a quantum leap with a technique developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

25 Apr 2015

Astronomers Spot 11 Galaxies Exiled From Their Clusters

We know of about two dozen runaway stars, and have even found one runaway star cluster escaping its galaxy forever. Now, astronomers have spotted 11 runaway galaxies that have been flung out of their homes to wander the void of intergalactic space.

25 Apr 2015

Optical Atomic Clocks Employed in Space for Testing Gravitational Red Shift

Tests carried out in zero-gravity on board the FOKUS research rocket. Successful demonstration of technology for the QUANTUS mission.

25 Apr 2015

Physics Framework Underlying Unexpected Metal-to-Insulator-to-Metal Transitions

New work from Carnegie’s Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure. Their work is published in Physical Review Letters.

24 Apr 2015

Close Investigation of Two Very Different, Distant Dwarf Planets

The solar system is teeming with tiny rocks – but officially there are only five dwarfs: Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Pluto. While the Dawn space probe is currently exploring Ceres, the New Horizons mission will hurtle past big brother Pluto on 14 July and record data and images of this faraway world en passant. The researchers will thus have a chance to more closely investigate two very different, distant dwarf planets.

24 Apr 2015

Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center Opens at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) today officially opened its new Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center (SPICE), which will facilitate interactions between the many diverse fields that study spin-related phenomena – at a level that each field could not achieve on its own.

24 Apr 2015

Researchers Await First Light of ESPRESSO Spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope

The exoplanet 51 Pegasi b [1] lies some 50 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It was discovered in 1995 and will forever be remembered as the first confirmed exoplanet to be found orbiting an ordinary star like the Sun [2]. It is also regarded as the archetypal hot Jupiter -- a class of planets now known to be relatively commonplace, which are similar in size and mass to Jupiter, but orbit much closer to their parent stars.

24 Apr 2015

Celestial Bodies with Frozen Water Also Orbit Further Inside the Solar System

Celestial bodies made up of frozen water orbit not only at the outer limits of our solar system but also further inside.

24 Apr 2015

ICARUS Liquid-Argon Neutrino Detector to Travel from Italy to CERN to the U.S.

A group of scientists led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia will transport the world's largest liquid-argon neutrino detector across the Atlantic Ocean to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

24 Apr 2015

Capturing Chondrules Using Gravitational Force Led to Formation of Asteroids

Fragments of asteroids regularly land on Earth as meteorites. If you examine such a find, you can see that it comprises millimetre-sized round stones, known as chondrules. These small particles are believed to be the original building blocks of the solar system. However, the research community has not previously been able to explain how the chondrules formed asteroids. A new study shows that asteroids were formed by capturing chondrules with the help of gravitational force.

24 Apr 2015

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Mathematicians Develop New Method that Simplifies Big Data Using Ideas from Quantum Theory

Entangled Photons Cast a New Light on Quantum Cause and Effect

AAS/SPD and AGU/SPA to Meet in Indiana for First Triennial Earth-Sun Summit

Some Galaxies Can Be Thrown Away From Their Host Clusters

Hubble's 25th Anniversary Celebrated with Vibrant Image of Westerlund 2 Star Cluster

Quantum Correlated Light Beams Help Overcome Fundamental Detection Limit of Microcantilever-Based Sensors

Astronomers Spot 11 Galaxies Exiled From Their Clusters

Optical Atomic Clocks Employed in Space for Testing Gravitational Red Shift

Physics Framework Underlying Unexpected Metal-to-Insulator-to-Metal Transitions

Close Investigation of Two Very Different, Distant Dwarf Planets

Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center Opens at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Researchers Await First Light of ESPRESSO Spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope

Celestial Bodies with Frozen Water Also Orbit Further Inside the Solar System

ICARUS Liquid-Argon Neutrino Detector to Travel from Italy to CERN to the U.S.

Capturing Chondrules Using Gravitational Force Led to Formation of Asteroids

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