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Super-Earths May be the Most Common Kind of Exoplanet in the Galaxy

"If you have a coin and flip it just once, what does that tell you about the odds of heads versus tails?" asks Heather Knutson, assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech. "It tells you almost nothing. It's the same with planetary systems," she says.

By Kimm Fesenmaier 16 Oct 2014

Neighboring Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies Devoid of Star-Forming Gas

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, along with data from other large radio telescopes, have discovered that our nearest galactic neighbors, the dwarf spheroidal galaxies, are devoid of star-forming gas, and that our Milky Way Galaxy is to blame.

16 Oct 2014

Global Market for Quantum Dots Estimated to Grow at 90.8% CAGR

The global market for quantum dots (QDs) was estimated to generate $121 million in revenues in 2013. This market is expected to reach about $1.1 billion in 2016 and about $3.1 billion by 2018, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 90.8% for the five-year period, 2013 to 2018.

15 Oct 2014

American Physical Society Honors Minnesota Graduate with 2014 Leroy Apker Award

Recent University of Minnesota graduate Michael J. Veit has won the 2014 Leroy Apker award of the American Physical Society. The prestigious Apker award recognizes outstanding achievements and potential for future scientific accomplishment in physics by undergraduate students. Only two winners are selected, one from a Ph.D.-granting institution, and one from a non-Ph.D-granting institution.

15 Oct 2014

UCSB Astrophysicist Endeavors to Find Out Whether Matter Falls Into or Gets Ejected from Black Holes

Is matter falling into the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way or being ejected from it? No one knows for sure, but a UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist is searching for an answer.

15 Oct 2014

Global Network of Smartphones Could Become Planet-Sized Cosmic Ray Detector

Your smartphone could become part of the world's largest telescope. A team led by UC Irvine physicist Daniel Whiteson and UC Davis physicist Michael Mulhearn has designed an app to turn the global network of smartphones into a planet-sized cosmic ray detector, according to a paper posted today to the physics website arXiv.

15 Oct 2014

LMU Chemists Synthesize Ferromagnetic Superconducting Compound

Chemists at Ludwig-Maximilias-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have synthesized a ferromagnetic superconducting compound that is amenable to chemical modification, opening the route to detailed studies of this rare combination of physical properties.

15 Oct 2014

Bart Johnson at SLAC Honored with Farrel W. Lytle Award

Bart Johnson, who for the past 18 years has worked with his team to assist scientists with their synchrotron experiments and keep X-ray beamlines running at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, received an annual award Oct. 9 recognizing his efforts.

14 Oct 2014

Researchers to Study Cause of Giant Spin-Splitting on Strontium Titanate’s Surface

The need for ever faster and more efficient electronic devices is growing rapidly, and thus the demand for new materials with new properties. Oxides, especially ones based on strontium titanate (SrTiO3), play an important role here.

14 Oct 2014

CQT Launches Projects on Hybrid Quantum Technologies and Space Based Quantum Key Distribution

Two new projects have launched at the Centre for Quantum Technologies thanks to funding awards by Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF). The projects on "Hybrid Quantum Technologies" and "Space Based Quantum Key Distribution" will apply the Centre's expertise to advanced challenges. They have received funding under NRF's Competitive Research Programme grant scheme totalling over $10 million.

14 Oct 2014

Niels Bohr Institute Researchers Receive YDUN Grants from Danish Council for Independent Research

Two researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, astrophysicist Lise Bech Christensen from the DARK Cosmology Centre and particle physicist Stefania Xella from the Discovery Center have both received grants of approximately 6-6½ million kroner from YDUN under the Danish Council for Independent Research. YDUN are awarded primarily to promising young female researchers.

13 Oct 2014

UNSW Australia Research Teams Create Two Types of Quantum Bits for Quantum Computers

Two research teams working in the same laboratories at UNSW Australia have found distinct solutions to a critical challenge that has held back the realisation of super powerful quantum computers.

13 Oct 2014

Experiment Confirms Existence of Quantum Selection Rules in Molecules

The experiments were carried out on endofullerenes, molecules of C60 into which smaller molecules of Hydrogen (H2) had been inserted. The results, published in Physical Review Letters, represent the first known example of a quantum selection rule found in a molecule.

13 Oct 2014

JQI Scientists Obtain Interference Pattern with Extremely Narrow Fringes Using Incoherent Light

Observing the quantum behavior of light is a big part of Alan Migdall’s research at the Joint Quantum Institute. Many of his experiments depend on observing light in the form of photons---the particle complement of light waves---and sometimes only one photon at a time, using “smart” detectors that can count the number of individual photons in a pulse.

13 Oct 2014

Radiation Leak Measurement Helps Find Ideal Star-Forming Galaxy

By focusing on large, star-forming galaxies in the universe, researchers at Johns Hopkins University were able to measure its radiation leaks in an effort to better understand how the universe evolved as the first stars were formed.

13 Oct 2014

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Super-Earths May be the Most Common Kind of Exoplanet in the Galaxy

Neighboring Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies Devoid of Star-Forming Gas

Global Market for Quantum Dots Estimated to Grow at 90.8% CAGR

American Physical Society Honors Minnesota Graduate with 2014 Leroy Apker Award

UCSB Astrophysicist Endeavors to Find Out Whether Matter Falls Into or Gets Ejected from Black Holes

Global Network of Smartphones Could Become Planet-Sized Cosmic Ray Detector

LMU Chemists Synthesize Ferromagnetic Superconducting Compound

Bart Johnson at SLAC Honored with Farrel W. Lytle Award

Researchers to Study Cause of Giant Spin-Splitting on Strontium Titanate’s Surface

CQT Launches Projects on Hybrid Quantum Technologies and Space Based Quantum Key Distribution

Niels Bohr Institute Researchers Receive YDUN Grants from Danish Council for Independent Research

UNSW Australia Research Teams Create Two Types of Quantum Bits for Quantum Computers

Experiment Confirms Existence of Quantum Selection Rules in Molecules

JQI Scientists Obtain Interference Pattern with Extremely Narrow Fringes Using Incoherent Light

Radiation Leak Measurement Helps Find Ideal Star-Forming Galaxy

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