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No Evidence of Advanced Civilizations in 100,000 Galaxies

After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced civilizations in them.

16 Apr 2015

Quantum Processors Could Work More Slowly Than Believed

If you're designing a new computer, you want it to solve problems as fast as possible. Just how fast is possible is an open question when it comes to quantum computers, but physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have narrowed the theoretical limits for where that "speed limit" is. The research implies that quantum processors will work more slowly than some research has suggested.

15 Apr 2015

Unique Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy Enables Spin-Orbitronics Research

Few among us may know what magnetic domains are but we make use of them daily when we email files, post images, or download music or video to our personal devices.

15 Apr 2015

Scientists Release Dark Matter Maps of the Cosmos

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey have released the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos. These maps, created with one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, are the largest contiguous maps created at this level of detail and will improve our understanding of dark matter's role in the formation of galaxies.

15 Apr 2015

Violent Methane Storms in Titan's Atmosphere May Be the Cause of Mysterious Sand Dunes

With its thick, hazy atmosphere and surface rivers, mountains, lakes and dunes, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is one of the most Earthlike places in the solar system.

15 Apr 2015

Spitzer and OGLE Discover Remote Gas Planet About 13,000 Light-Years Away

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.

15 Apr 2015

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Shatters Own Record for Producing Polarized Proton Collisions

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a powerful particle accelerator for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, just shattered its own record for producing polarized proton collisions at 200-giga-electron-volt (GeV) collision energy.

15 Apr 2015

CQT's Quantum Cryptography Research Featured in National University of Singapore Exhibition

CQT's research in quantum cryptography is featured in a National University of Singapore exhibition, organised as part of the celebrations for the University's 110th anniversary and Singapore's 50th birthday.

13 Apr 2015

University of Bristol Particle Physics Research Group Celebrates Restart of the Large Hadron Collider

Scientists from the Particle Physics Research Group at the University of Bristol are celebrating the restarting of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today, after two years of upgrade work.

13 Apr 2015

New Classification of Charge Density Waves Based Upon Their Nature, Proposed By Physicists

LSU Professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Ward Plummer and Jiandi Zhang, in collaboration with their colleagues from the Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 112, pg. 2367) titled "Classification of Charge Density Waves based on their Nature." This work is a result of a collaboration funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

13 Apr 2015

Physicists Model Particle Production Inside of Gamma-Ray Bursts

A new study provides an inside look at the most powerful explosions in the universe: gamma-ray bursts.

13 Apr 2015

Quantum Information Encoded in Silicon Using Simple Electrical Pulses Holds Promise for Affordable Quantum Computers

A UNSW-led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing the construction of affordable large-scale quantum computers one step closer to reality.

13 Apr 2015

Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe Might Not Be as Fast as Believed

Certain types of supernovae, or exploding stars, are more diverse than previously thought, a University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has discovered. The results, reported in two papers published in the Astrophysical Journal, have implications for big cosmological questions, such as how fast the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang.

13 Apr 2015

Infernal Atmospheric Conditions in HD189733b Exoplanet

As part of the PlanetS National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), astronomers from the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Bern, Switzerland, have come to measure the temperature of the atmosphere of an exoplanet with unequalled precision, by crossing two approaches.

13 Apr 2015

‘Chemical Clock’ Does Not Seem to Work in Red Giant Stars

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Cristina Chiappini from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, has discovered a group of red giant stars for which the ‘chemical clock’ does not work: according to their chemical signature, these stars should be old. Instead, they appear to be young when their ages are inferred using asteroseismology. Their existence cannot be explained by standard chemical evolution models of the Milky Way, suggesting that the chemical enrichment history of the Galactic disc is more complex than originally assumed.

13 Apr 2015

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No Evidence of Advanced Civilizations in 100,000 Galaxies

Quantum Processors Could Work More Slowly Than Believed

Unique Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy Enables Spin-Orbitronics Research

Scientists Release Dark Matter Maps of the Cosmos

Violent Methane Storms in Titan's Atmosphere May Be the Cause of Mysterious Sand Dunes

Spitzer and OGLE Discover Remote Gas Planet About 13,000 Light-Years Away

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Shatters Own Record for Producing Polarized Proton Collisions

CQT's Quantum Cryptography Research Featured in National University of Singapore Exhibition

University of Bristol Particle Physics Research Group Celebrates Restart of the Large Hadron Collider

New Classification of Charge Density Waves Based Upon Their Nature, Proposed By Physicists

Physicists Model Particle Production Inside of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Quantum Information Encoded in Silicon Using Simple Electrical Pulses Holds Promise for Affordable Quantum Computers

Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe Might Not Be as Fast as Believed

Infernal Atmospheric Conditions in HD189733b Exoplanet

‘Chemical Clock’ Does Not Seem to Work in Red Giant Stars

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