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Novel Microfabricated Ion Trap Architecture Could Help Increase Qubit Densities for Quantum Computers

Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest supercomputers today.

6 May 2015

Forming Planets Could Be Responsible for Gaps in Dust and Gas Swirling Around HL Tau Star

A recent and famous image from deep space marks the first time we've seen a forming planetary system, according to a study by U of T astrophysicists.

6 May 2015

The University of Manchester to Play Key Role in Experiment to Detect Neutrinos

Scientists at Fermilab, just outside Chicago, want to fire a beam of particles through 1,300km (800 miles) of rock some 30km below the surface to a detector built in a former mine in South Dakota.

6 May 2015

Astronomers Discover Exceptionally Luminous Galaxy in the Early Universe

An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California-Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5% of its present age.

6 May 2015

String Theory ‘Legos’ Could Help Understand Extreme Physics of Black Holes

Four decades ago, Dr. Stephen Hawking posed a paradox about black holes that still challenges the imaginations of physicists today. The “information paradox” suggests that nothing, not even information itself, survives beyond a black hole’s event horizon, which clashes with the quantum principle that information cannot be destroyed.

6 May 2015

Massive Superconducting Electromagnet Crosses the Country to Unlock Secrets of the Atom

Why did the 40,000-pound superconducting magnet cross the country? The full answer to this twist on the old joke is complicated, but here’s the short version: to unlock the secrets of the atom.

5 May 2015

University of Zurich Honors EPFL Professor for Contributions to Experimental Particle Physics

Professor Tatsuya Nakada has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich for his fundamental and long-lasting contributions to experimental particle physics.

5 May 2015

Galactic Cosmic Rays Can Damage Astronaut’s Central Nervous System

What happens to an astronaut's brain during a mission to Mars? Nothing good. It's besieged by destructive particles that can forever impair cognition, according to a UC Irvine radiation oncology study appearing in the May 1 edition of Science Advances.

4 May 2015

Researchers Develop New Theory to Calculate Helium's Polarizability Using Quantum Electrodynamics

Most of us know helium as the lighter-than-air gas that puts lift into birthday balloons or makes a baritone's resonant voice sound more like Donald Duck's.

4 May 2015

High School Students Discover Pulsar with Widest Orbit Around Another Neutron Star

A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Further observations by astronomers using the GBT revealed that this pulsar has the widest orbit of any around a neutron star and is part of only a handful of double neutron star systems.

4 May 2015

Strange Exoplanet Orbiting Small Cool Star Challenges Ideas About Planet Formation

The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form.

4 May 2015

Unique Full-Length Superconducting Undulator Developed at ANKA Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Synchrotron radiation facilities provide insights into the world of very small structures like microbes, viruses or nanomaterials and rely on dedicated magnet technology, which is optimized to produce highest intensity beams. The ANKA synchrotron radiation facility at KIT and Babcock Noell GmbH now took a technological leap forward: They have successfully developed, installed, and tested a novel full-length superconducting undulator, for the first time providing higher peak magnetic fields for the production of x-rays than traditional permanent-magnet undulators currently in use in facilities around the world.

4 May 2015

Physicists Produce Stable Efimov System Consisting of Three Helium Atoms

In 1970, Vitaly Efimov analysed a three-body quantum system in which the attraction between two bodies reduced such that they become unbound. His prediction was that instead of breaking up, the molecule consisting of three particles can support an infinite number of bound states with huge distances between the binding partners. "Every classical notion as to why such a structure remains stable fails here", explains Prof. Reinhard Dörner, head of the research group at the Institute for Nuclear Physics.

4 May 2015

Point-Like Monopole Observed in Quantum Field

Researchers at Aalto University (Finland) and Amherst College (USA) have observed a point-like monopole in a quantum field itself for the first time. This discovery connects to important characteristics of the elusive monopole magnet. The results were just published in Science magazine.

4 May 2015

Physicists Discuss Future of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Project

For the past several years, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) have been planning the construction of and developing technologies for a very special instrument that will create the most extensive three-dimensional map of the universe to date. Called DESI for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, this project will trace the growth history of the universe rather like the way you might track your child’s height with pencil marks climbing up a doorframe. But DESI will start from the present and work back into the past.

4 May 2015

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Novel Microfabricated Ion Trap Architecture Could Help Increase Qubit Densities for Quantum Computers

Forming Planets Could Be Responsible for Gaps in Dust and Gas Swirling Around HL Tau Star

The University of Manchester to Play Key Role in Experiment to Detect Neutrinos

Astronomers Discover Exceptionally Luminous Galaxy in the Early Universe

String Theory ‘Legos’ Could Help Understand Extreme Physics of Black Holes

Massive Superconducting Electromagnet Crosses the Country to Unlock Secrets of the Atom

University of Zurich Honors EPFL Professor for Contributions to Experimental Particle Physics

Galactic Cosmic Rays Can Damage Astronaut’s Central Nervous System

Researchers Develop New Theory to Calculate Helium's Polarizability Using Quantum Electrodynamics

High School Students Discover Pulsar with Widest Orbit Around Another Neutron Star

Strange Exoplanet Orbiting Small Cool Star Challenges Ideas About Planet Formation

Unique Full-Length Superconducting Undulator Developed at ANKA Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Physicists Produce Stable Efimov System Consisting of Three Helium Atoms

Point-Like Monopole Observed in Quantum Field

Physicists Discuss Future of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Project

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