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NASA Telescope Documents Outburst of Young Protostar in Orion Star-Formation Complex

Using data from orbiting observatories, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and from ground-based facilities, an international team of astronomers has discovered an outburst from a star thought to be in the earliest phase of its development. The eruption, scientists say, reveals a sudden accumulation of gas and dust by an exceptionally young star, or protostar, known as HOPS 383.

25 Mar 2015

Anesthetics May Prevent Consciousness in ‘Quantum Channels’ Deep Inside Brain Neurons

Oil and water don’t mix. Can that simple fact explain consciousness? In a special issue of 'Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry’ scientists from Nova Southeastern University, the University of Alberta and the University of Arizona find evidence that anesthetics act to prevent consciousness in non-polar, oil-like ‘quantum channels’ deep inside proteins, deep inside brain neurons.

25 Mar 2015

Physicist Provides Personal Account of Struggles and Triumphs to Find ‘The Most Wanted Particle’

For nearly 50 years, the Higgs boson was a tantalizing missing piece of the particle physics puzzle, theorized to exist but undiscovered by experiment.

24 Mar 2015

Certain Kinds of Quantum Correlations Imply Causation

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.

24 Mar 2015

Scientists Measure Aluminum as it Transitions into “Warm Dense Matter”

In an experiment at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists precisely measured the temperature and structure of aluminum as it transitions into a superhot, highly compressed concoction known as “warm dense matter.”

24 Mar 2015

Star Observed in 1670 Must Have Been a Rarer, Violent Breed of Stellar Collision

New observations made with APEX and other telescopes reveal that the star that European astronomers saw appear in the sky in 1670 was not a nova, but a much rarer, violent breed of stellar collision.

24 Mar 2015

Chance Discovery Provides Experimental Evidence for Stars Generating Sound

A chance discovery by a team of researchers, including a University of York scientist, has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound.

24 Mar 2015

South Pole Telescope Searches the Skies to Map Cosmic Microwave Background

Down at the South Pole, where temperatures drop below negative 100 degrees Fahrenheit and darkness blankets the land for six months at a time, the South Pole Telescope (SPT) searches the skies for answers to the mysteries of our universe.

24 Mar 2015

USPTO Awards Whitewood Patent for Secure Multi-Party Communication Compatible with Quantum Key Distribution

Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc., a builder of next-generation systems of data encryption that leverage advanced cryptography technologies emerging from U.S. centers of research excellence, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 8,929,554, with claims covering methods and systems for secure multi-party communication that are compatible with various key distribution protocols, including quantum key distribution (QKD).

24 Mar 2015

Researchers Demonstrate Very High Speed Quantum Switch with Silicon

The team demonstrated a quantum on/off switching time of about a millionth of a millionth of a second - the fastest-ever quantum switch to be achieved with silicon and over a thousand times faster than previous attempts.

23 Mar 2015

High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory to Gather Highest-Energy Gamma Rays

High on a sleeping Mexican volcano, a new particle astrophysics observatory is about to blink to life, commencing an all-sky search for very high-energy gamma rays — a search that could greatly expand the catalog of known gamma ray sources and chip away at the mystery of the cosmic rays that constantly bombard our planet.

23 Mar 2015

Orbital Angular Momentum for Encoding Information Increases Possibility of High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers at the University of Rochester and their collaborators have developed a way to transfer 2.05 bits per photon by using "twisted light." This remarkable achievement is possible because the researchers used the orbital angular momentum of the photons to encode information, rather than the more commonly used polarization of light.

23 Mar 2015

Self-Consistent Theory of Quantum Gravity Explains the Dark Sector

Ask any theoretical physicist on what are the most profound mysteries in physics and you will be surprised if she mentions anything other than Quantum Gravity and the Dark Sector.

23 Mar 2015

Astronomers Study Effects of Black Holes on Emergent Galaxies at JAXA’s New X-Ray Astronomy Observatory

University of Waterloo Professor Brian McNamara along with two Canadian astronomers will be part of the science working group directing ASTRO-H, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA's) newest flagship x-ray astronomy observatory.

23 Mar 2015

Construction Complete on 300th Detector Tank at High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory

Supernovae, neutron star collisions and active galactic nuclei are among the most energetic phenomena in the known universe. These violent explosions produce high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays, which can easily travel large distances--making it possible to see objects and events far outside our own galaxy.

23 Mar 2015

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NASA Telescope Documents Outburst of Young Protostar in Orion Star-Formation Complex

Anesthetics May Prevent Consciousness in ‘Quantum Channels’ Deep Inside Brain Neurons

Physicist Provides Personal Account of Struggles and Triumphs to Find ‘The Most Wanted Particle’

Certain Kinds of Quantum Correlations Imply Causation

Scientists Measure Aluminum as it Transitions into “Warm Dense Matter”

Star Observed in 1670 Must Have Been a Rarer, Violent Breed of Stellar Collision

Chance Discovery Provides Experimental Evidence for Stars Generating Sound

South Pole Telescope Searches the Skies to Map Cosmic Microwave Background

USPTO Awards Whitewood Patent for Secure Multi-Party Communication Compatible with Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers Demonstrate Very High Speed Quantum Switch with Silicon

High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory to Gather Highest-Energy Gamma Rays

Orbital Angular Momentum for Encoding Information Increases Possibility of High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Self-Consistent Theory of Quantum Gravity Explains the Dark Sector

Astronomers Study Effects of Black Holes on Emergent Galaxies at JAXA’s New X-Ray Astronomy Observatory

Construction Complete on 300th Detector Tank at High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory

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