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Astonishing Low Water Abundance in Exoplanet

A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapour in the atmospheres of three planets orbiting stars similar to the Sun – and have come up nearly dry.

25 Jul 2014

Hexabundle' Optical-Fibre Instrument Provides Detailed Views of Galaxies

A new home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres is giving Australian astronomers the first 'Google street view' of the cosmos — incredibly detailed views of huge numbers of galaxies.

25 Jul 2014

Quantum Entanglement of Particles Preserved When Passing Through an Amplifier

Physicists Sergei Filippov (MIPT and Russian Quantum Center at Skolkovo) and Mario Ziman (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and the Institute of Physics in Bratislava, Slovakia) have found a way to preserve quantum entanglement of particles passing through an amplifier and, conversely, when transmitting a signal over long distances. Details are provided in an article published in the journal Physical Review A (see preprint).

25 Jul 2014

Scientists Make Most Precise Measurement of ‘Super-Earth’ Kepler-93b

Thanks to NASA's Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside our solar system. The size of the exoplanet, dubbed Kepler-93b, is now known to an uncertainty of just 74 miles (119 kilometers) on either side of the planetary body.

25 Jul 2014

Celestial Laboratories Allow Astronomers to Better Understand Star Evolution

In this striking new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust.

24 Jul 2014

New PandaX Facility Hosts Large Liquid-Xenon Detector for Dark Matter Research

The new PandaX facility, located deep underground in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, hosts a large liquid-xenon detector designed to search for direct evidence of dark matter interactions with the nuclei of...

24 Jul 2014

First Promising Indication of Building a Practical Technology with Topological Insulator Materials

The discovery of a new material combination that could lead to a more efficient approach to computer memory and logic will be described in the journal Nature on July 24, 2014.

24 Jul 2014

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Discovers a 'Transformer' Pulsar

In late June 2013, an exceptional binary containing a rapidly spinning neutron star underwent a dramatic change in behavior never before observed.

24 Jul 2014

Diversified Technologies and Sigmaphi to Develop Systems for Next-Generation Particle Accelerators

Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) developer of PowerMod™ high voltage, high power pulse modulators, DC power supplies, and process control systems, has recently signed an agreement with Sigmaphi Accelerator Technologies of Vannes, France. They will be working together on systems for the next generation of particle accelerators.

24 Jul 2014

CQT Paper on Self-Testing of the Singlet Earns Journal Award

Imagine you buy a device that promises to make entangled qubits – pairs of photons, say, that you want to use for sending a secret message or doing a quantum computation.

24 Jul 2014

Probing Galaxy's Halo Provides New Insights into Galaxy's Formation, Evolution, and Composition

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have probed the extreme outskirts of the stunning elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. The galaxy's halo of stars has been found to extend much further from the galaxy's centre than expected and the stars within this halo seem to be surprisingly rich in heavy elements. This is the most remote portion of an elliptical galaxy ever to have been explored.

23 Jul 2014

Theorists Propose New Method of Amplifying Power of Vacuum Fluctuations

Vacuum is not as empty as one might think. In fact, empty space is a bubbling soup of various virtual particles popping in and out of existence – a phenomenon called "vacuum fluctuations". Usually, such extremely short-lived particles remain completely unnoticed, but in certain cases vacuum forces can have a measurable effect.

23 Jul 2014

Innovative Laser May Play Crucial Role in Quantum Computer Development

Dartmouth scientists and their colleagues have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light. The laser may play a crucial role in the development of quantum computers, which are predicted to eventually outperform today's most powerful supercomputers.

23 Jul 2014

The SuperCDMS-SNOLAB Project Selected to Search for Dark Matter

The SuperCDMS-SNOLAB project has been selected by U.S. funding agencies in the second generation (G2) program to search for “dark matter.” This means that the SuperCDMS experiment will be expanding to SNOLAB, Canada’s underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics in Sudbury, Ontario.

23 Jul 2014

Study Results Offer Clue to Why Superconductivity Doesn’t Happen at Higher Temperatures

A team at Cornell and Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered that previously observed density waves that seem to suppress superconductivity are linked to an electronic “broken symmetry,” offering an important clue to why superconductivity doesn’t happen at higher temperatures.

23 Jul 2014

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Astonishing Low Water Abundance in Exoplanet

Hexabundle' Optical-Fibre Instrument Provides Detailed Views of Galaxies

Quantum Entanglement of Particles Preserved When Passing Through an Amplifier

Scientists Make Most Precise Measurement of ‘Super-Earth’ Kepler-93b

Celestial Laboratories Allow Astronomers to Better Understand Star Evolution

New PandaX Facility Hosts Large Liquid-Xenon Detector for Dark Matter Research

First Promising Indication of Building a Practical Technology with Topological Insulator Materials

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Discovers a 'Transformer' Pulsar

Diversified Technologies and Sigmaphi to Develop Systems for Next-Generation Particle Accelerators

CQT Paper on Self-Testing of the Singlet Earns Journal Award

Probing Galaxy's Halo Provides New Insights into Galaxy's Formation, Evolution, and Composition

Theorists Propose New Method of Amplifying Power of Vacuum Fluctuations

Innovative Laser May Play Crucial Role in Quantum Computer Development

The SuperCDMS-SNOLAB Project Selected to Search for Dark Matter

Study Results Offer Clue to Why Superconductivity Doesn’t Happen at Higher Temperatures

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