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Astronomers Predict "Time of Death" for Two Known Exoplanets

Two worlds orbiting a distant star are about to become a snack of cosmic proportions. Astronomers announced today that the planets Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c will be swallowed by their star in a short time by astronomical standards. Their ends will come in 130 million and 155 million years, respectively.

3 Jun 2014

Research Suggests Exoplanets Can be Classified as Terrestrials, Gas Giants and Mid-size Gas Dwarfs

The planets of our solar system come in two basic flavors, like vanilla and chocolate ice cream. We have small, rocky terrestrials like Earth and Mars, and large gas giants like Neptune and Jupiter. We're missing the astronomical equivalent of strawberry ice cream - planets between about one and four times the size of Earth. NASA's Kepler mission has discovered that these types of planets are very common around other stars.

3 Jun 2014

Harsh Space Weather May Strip Atmosphere of Rocky Planet Orbiting in Red Dwarf's Habitable Zone

Life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought. Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because they are the most common type of star, comprising 80 percent of the stars in the universe. But a new study shows that harsh space weather might strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting in a red dwarf's habitable zone.

3 Jun 2014

Nanosys Qualifies LMS to Use QDEF Technology for its Quantum Light Accumulation Sheet

Nanosys, Inc. today announced LMS Co., Ltd., as the second major supplier of optical films based on its proprietary Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF) light emitting technology. LMS, based in South Korea and one of the world's leading producers of optical films for displays, has been qualified by Nanosys to utilize QDEF technology for its Quantum Light Accumulation Sheet (QLAS).

3 Jun 2014

University of Toronto Physicists Conduct Ultra-Precise Measurements Using Photons

For the first time, physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have overcome a major challenge in the science of measurement using quantum mechanics. Their work paves the way for great advances in using quantum states to enable the next generation of ultra-precise measurement technologies.

3 Jun 2014

Astronomers Discover Rocky Planet 17 Times Heavier than Earth

Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery has planet formation theorists challenged to explain how such a world could have formed.

3 Jun 2014

Researchers Report Subjecting Metals to Severe Pressure Lowers their Electrical Resistance

Research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes it possible to predict how subjecting metals to severe pressure can lower their electrical resistance, a finding that could have applications in computer chips and other materials that could benefit from specific electrical resistance.

3 Jun 2014

BOE Monitors Featuring QD Vision’s Color IQ Quantum Dot Technology at Computex 2014

Today, QD Vision, Inc., the leading manufacturer of quantum dot optical components for LCD products, announced that BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (BOE), China’s largest LCD panel maker, will be showcasing 23.6” and 27” monitors featuring QD Vision’s Color IQTM optics and ShineOn’s LED backlight solution during COMPUTEX 2014, June 3-7, in Taipei, Taiwan.

3 Jun 2014

UChicago and Oxford Researchers Recreate Supernova in Laboratory Experiment

Astrophysicists have established that cosmic turbulence could have amplified magnetic fields to the strengths observed in interstellar space.

2 Jun 2014

Highly Powerful Laser Beams Used to Recreate Table-Top Supernova Explosions

Laser beams 60,000 billion times more powerful than a laser pointer have been used to recreate scaled supernova explosions in the laboratory as a way of investigating one of the most energetic events in the Universe.

2 Jun 2014

University of Pittsburgh Researchers First to Detect the Exciton in Metals

University of Pittsburgh researchers have become the first to detect a fundamental particle of light-matter interaction in metals, the exciton. The team will publish its work online June 1 in Nature Physics.

2 Jun 2014

Negotiations Under Way to Make Brazil Associate Member of CERN Particle-Physics Lab

As Brazil gets set to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup this month amid concerns about the amount of public money being used to stage the world's largest sporting event, Physics World's editorial team reveals in a new special report how physicists are taking full advantage of the four-fold increase in science funding that the government has invested over the past 10 years.

2 Jun 2014

Real Time Movie on Quantum Simulation of Conversion of Light into Current

Study in journal Science reports that the quantum-mechanical nature of electrons and their coupling to the nuclei is of fundamental importance for the charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic device, and shows the first real time movies of the process

31 May 2014

Scientists Have Jointly Solved the Gordic Knot Using Pulse Picking Technique

Everything we know nowadays about novel materials and the underlying processes in them we also know thanks to studies at contemporary synchrotron facilities like BESSY II. Here, relativistic electrons in a storage ring are employed to generate very brilliant and partly coherent light pulses from the THz to the X-ray regime in undulators and other devices.

31 May 2014

CQP Researcher Dr Chris Erven Wins PechaKucha Competition

Dr Chris Erven of CQP was announced as the University of Bristol winner of a PechaKucha competition sponsored by Vitae reSEARCH Careers 2014 for his presentation on Quantum Cryptography.

31 May 2014

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Astronomers Predict "Time of Death" for Two Known Exoplanets

Research Suggests Exoplanets Can be Classified as Terrestrials, Gas Giants and Mid-size Gas Dwarfs

Harsh Space Weather May Strip Atmosphere of Rocky Planet Orbiting in Red Dwarf's Habitable Zone

Nanosys Qualifies LMS to Use QDEF Technology for its Quantum Light Accumulation Sheet

University of Toronto Physicists Conduct Ultra-Precise Measurements Using Photons

Astronomers Discover Rocky Planet 17 Times Heavier than Earth

Researchers Report Subjecting Metals to Severe Pressure Lowers their Electrical Resistance

BOE Monitors Featuring QD Vision’s Color IQ Quantum Dot Technology at Computex 2014

UChicago and Oxford Researchers Recreate Supernova in Laboratory Experiment

Highly Powerful Laser Beams Used to Recreate Table-Top Supernova Explosions

University of Pittsburgh Researchers First to Detect the Exciton in Metals

Negotiations Under Way to Make Brazil Associate Member of CERN Particle-Physics Lab

Real Time Movie on Quantum Simulation of Conversion of Light into Current

Scientists Have Jointly Solved the Gordic Knot Using Pulse Picking Technique

CQP Researcher Dr Chris Erven Wins PechaKucha Competition

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