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Highly Charged Ions Hold Potential for Processing Quantum Information

The world is mostly neutral. That is, most of the atoms in our environment are electrically neutral. The number of electrons in the outer parts of atoms equals the number of protons at the centers of atoms. As one or more electrons are plucked away from the atoms, the remaining electrons feel a much stronger positive pull from the nucleus.

21 Jul 2014

Scientists Re-Create Conditions Deep Inside Giant Planets

Lawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re-created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system.

21 Jul 2014

New Finding Sheds Light on Microscopic Electron Motion in Molecules

Ultrafast X-ray laser research led by Kansas State University has provided scientists with a snapshot of a fundamental molecular phenomenon. The finding sheds new light on microscopic electron motion in molecules.

21 Jul 2014

OSIRIS Images Two-Part Shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

As the European Space Agency's spacecraft Rosetta is slowly approaching its destination, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the comet is again proving to be full of surprises.

21 Jul 2014

Researchers Observe Electrons Jumping Between Fragments of Exploding Molecules

Using ultra-short X-ray flashes, an international team of researchers watched electrons jumping between the fragments of exploding molecules.

18 Jul 2014

DOE and NSF Select Second-Generation Dark Matter Experiments

Texas A&M University is involved in two of the three dark matter experiments -- including both of the ones searching for weakly interacting dark matter particles -- selected for future funding by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

18 Jul 2014

Scientists Directly Measure Movement of Electrons as They Leap

Many chemical reactions – such as those at work in batteries and photosynthesis – rely on electrons moving from one atom or molecule to another.

18 Jul 2014

American Astronautical Society Honors Voyager Project Scientist with Lifetime Achievement Award

Ed Stone, project scientist of NASA's Voyager mission since 1972, and former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, was honored with a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday from the American Astronautical Society.

18 Jul 2014

University of Zaragoza Honors Director of Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

The University of Zaragoza, which is the capital of the Spanish province Aragon, has given the honorary title of a “doctor honoris causa” to Professor Ignacio Cirac, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, near Munich) and leader of the Theory Division.

18 Jul 2014

Multiverse Hypothesis in the Realm of Testable Science

Never mind the big bang; in the beginning was the vacuum. The vacuum simmered with energy (variously called dark energy, vacuum energy, the inflation field, or the Higgs field). Like water in a pot, this high energy began to evaporate – bubbles formed.

18 Jul 2014

Comet ISON May Have Run Out of Steam Before Perihelion

On November 28th of last year, thousands of people worldwide watched comet ISON’s fiery ride past the Sun. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have now reconstructed the comet’s activity during its final hours. Their conclusion: already hours before its perhelion passage, ISON stopped emitting dust and gas into space.

17 Jul 2014

Antimatter Streams Through SLAC Linear Accelerator

Following an absence of six years, beams of positrons – the antimatter twins of electrons – are once more streaming through the linear accelerator to waiting experiments at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

17 Jul 2014

Pancakes' of Ultracold Atoms Trapped Between Mirrors Investigate Dicke Model of Atom-Light Interaction

With atoms and light, CQT researchers have built a 'simulator' of atom-light interactions. As circular as it sounds, the approach creates a promising new playground for testing theoretical ideas.

17 Jul 2014

Asteroid Vesta Data from Dawn Mission Questions Contemporary Models of Rocky Planet Formation

EPFL researchers have a better understanding of the asteroid Vesta and its internal structure, thanks to numerical simulations and data from the space mission Dawn. Their findings, published today in Nature, question contemporary models of rocky planet formation, including that of Earth.

17 Jul 2014

DFT Helps Describe Quantum Mechanical Processes Unfolding in Monolayer Materials Under Stress

Interested in an ultra-fast, unbreakable, and flexible smart phone that recharges in a matter of seconds? Monolayer materials may make it possible. These atom-thin sheets—including the famed super material graphene—feature exceptional and untapped mechanical and electronic properties. But to fully exploit these atomically tailored wonder materials, scientists must pry free the secrets of how and why they bend and break under stress.

17 Jul 2014

Quantum Science News

Highly Charged Ions Hold Potential for Processing Quantum Information

Scientists Re-Create Conditions Deep Inside Giant Planets

New Finding Sheds Light on Microscopic Electron Motion in Molecules

OSIRIS Images Two-Part Shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Researchers Observe Electrons Jumping Between Fragments of Exploding Molecules

DOE and NSF Select Second-Generation Dark Matter Experiments

Scientists Directly Measure Movement of Electrons as They Leap

American Astronautical Society Honors Voyager Project Scientist with Lifetime Achievement Award

University of Zaragoza Honors Director of Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Multiverse Hypothesis in the Realm of Testable Science

Comet ISON May Have Run Out of Steam Before Perihelion

Antimatter Streams Through SLAC Linear Accelerator

Pancakes' of Ultracold Atoms Trapped Between Mirrors Investigate Dicke Model of Atom-Light Interaction

Asteroid Vesta Data from Dawn Mission Questions Contemporary Models of Rocky Planet Formation

DFT Helps Describe Quantum Mechanical Processes Unfolding in Monolayer Materials Under Stress

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