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Electrons Cool to -228°C When Passed Through a Quantum Well

A team of researchers has discovered a way to cool electrons to −228 °C without external means and at room temperature, an advancement that could enable electronic devices to function with very little energy.

11 Sep 2014

Astronomer Define 'Venus Zone' Around Stars

San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and a team of researchers presented today the definition of a "Venus Zone," the area around a star in which a planet is likely to exhibit the unlivable conditions found on the planet Venus.

11 Sep 2014

VLT Measures Lithium in Messier 54 Globular Star Cluster

The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters, which are balls of hundreds of thousands of old stars dating back to the formation of the galaxy. One of these, along with several others in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), was found in the late eighteenth century by the French comet hunter Charles Messier and given the designation Messier 54.

11 Sep 2014

Researchers Uncover New Method to Detect Elusive Majorana Particles

Research published today in the journal Nature Communications uncovers a new method to detect Majorana particles, a key element for next-generation quantum computing.

11 Sep 2014

Researchers Successfully Fabricate Single-Photon Sources of Silicon Vacancy Centers

The research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba, and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, succeeded for the first time in the world in fabricating single-photon sources of SiV centers which are one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond having high purity and crystalline quality by introducing them at extremely low concentrations. The results of this research have been published in Nature Communications 5, Article number:4739, doi:10.1038/ncomms5739.

10 Sep 2014

Companion Star to Rare Type of Supernova Discovered by Hubble

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a companion star to a rare type of supernova. This observation confirms the theory that the explosion originated in a double-star system where one star fueled the mass-loss from the aging primary star.

10 Sep 2014

Researchers Lock Together Photons to Develop Room-Temperature Superconductors

Researchers at Princeton University have begun crystallizing light as part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about the physics of matter.

10 Sep 2014

Exotic Emergent Phenomena in Two-Dimensional Electron Liquids

Truly two-dimensional objects are rare. Even a thin piece of paper is trillions of atoms thick. When physicists do succeed in producing 2D systems, quantum interactions can lead to new phenomena and Nobel prizes.

10 Sep 2014

Synchrotron Light Sources Used to Look at Microscopic Particles Caught in Comet’s Path

The first analysis of space dust collected by a special collector onboard NASA's Stardust mission and sent back to Earth for study in 2006 suggests the tiny specks open a door to studying the origins of the solar system and possibly the origin of life itself.

9 Sep 2014

There Could be Many More Smaller Galaxies Around the Milky Way

Scientists believe they have found a way to explain why there are not as many galaxies orbiting the Milky Way as expected.

9 Sep 2014

International Team Discovers Evidence of Planet Forming Around Distant Star

Dr. John Carr, a scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), is part of an international team that has discovered what they believe is evidence of a planet forming around a star about 335 light years from Earth. This research is published in the August 20th issue of The Astrophysical

9 Sep 2014

Researchers Separate Nuclear Spin States of Water

Using an "electric prism", scientists have found a new way of separating water molecules that differ only in their nuclear spin states and, under normal conditions, do not part ways. Since water is such a fundamental molecule in the universe, the recent study may impact a multitude of research areas ranging from biology to astrophysics.

9 Sep 2014

World Scientific Publishes New Book, CERN: How We Found the Higgs Boson

"CERN: How We Found the Higgs Boson," recently published by World Scientific, is a highly valuable contribution to the history of CERN and the science surrounding this most remarkable physics laboratory in the world.

8 Sep 2014

Cascade Technologies' Novel QCL Measurement Technology Continues to Make Difference in Industry

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has worked with Cascade Technologies at various stages of its development and growth, from its formation as a spin-out from the University of Strathclyde in 2003 to its current position as an award-winning SME and the only commercial supplier of quantum cascade lasers for identifying and measuring industrial gases.

5 Sep 2014

New Generation of Cosmologists Explore Cosmic Microwave Background

A long tradition of cosmology research in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences has given birth to a vigorous effort by a new generation of cosmologists to understand the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang.

5 Sep 2014

Quantum Science News

Electrons Cool to -228°C When Passed Through a Quantum Well

Astronomer Define 'Venus Zone' Around Stars

VLT Measures Lithium in Messier 54 Globular Star Cluster

Researchers Uncover New Method to Detect Elusive Majorana Particles

Researchers Successfully Fabricate Single-Photon Sources of Silicon Vacancy Centers

Companion Star to Rare Type of Supernova Discovered by Hubble

Researchers Lock Together Photons to Develop Room-Temperature Superconductors

Exotic Emergent Phenomena in Two-Dimensional Electron Liquids

Synchrotron Light Sources Used to Look at Microscopic Particles Caught in Comet’s Path

There Could be Many More Smaller Galaxies Around the Milky Way

International Team Discovers Evidence of Planet Forming Around Distant Star

Researchers Separate Nuclear Spin States of Water

World Scientific Publishes New Book, CERN: How We Found the Higgs Boson

Cascade Technologies' Novel QCL Measurement Technology Continues to Make Difference in Industry

New Generation of Cosmologists Explore Cosmic Microwave Background

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