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Sorting Water Molecules: Separation of para and ortho water

Not all water is equal—at least not at the molecular level. There are two versions of the water molecule, para and ortho water, in which the spin states of the hydrogen nuclei are different. In the journal Angew...

17 Sep 2014

Pulsar Powers Luminous Gamma-Ray Source

Our Milky Way galaxy is littered with the still-sizzling remains of exploded stars. When the most massive stars explode as supernovas, they don't fade into the night, but sometimes glow ferociously with high-energy gamma rays. What powers these energetic stellar remains?

17 Sep 2014

Chemists Capture Images of Single Molecule Shifting from One Quantum State to Another

UC Irvine chemists have scored a scientific first: capturing moving images of a single molecule as it vibrates, or "breathes," and shifts from one quantum state to another.

17 Sep 2014

Most Galaxy Collisions Result in Disc Galaxies

An international research group led by Junko Ueda, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow, has made surprising observations that most galaxy collisions in the nearby Universe — within 40 million light-years from Earth — result in so-called disc galaxies.

17 Sep 2014

Ultrathin Metal Oxide Layers Can Control Properties of Quantum Dots

Researchers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Oklahoma have found a new way to control the properties of quantum dots, those tiny chunks of semiconductor material that glow different colors depending on their size.

17 Sep 2014

Leading Quantum Gravity Theorist to Lecture on Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe when he taught that space and time should be combined into a dynamical entity called “spacetime,” which is deformed (curved) by the presence of matter. Black holes are objects where this deformation is drastic, leading to a region from which nothing can escape.

16 Sep 2014

Scientists Explore Landscape of Absolute Zero to Probe Quantum Phase Transitions

Heat drives classical phase transitions—think solid, liquid, and gas—but much stranger things can happen when the temperature drops. If phase transitions occur at the coldest temperatures imaginable, where quantum mechanics reigns, subtle fluctuations can dramatically transform a material.

16 Sep 2014

Researchers Theorize Possible Solution to Preserve Theory of Supersymmetry

It was a breakthrough with profound implications for the world as we know it: the Higgs boson, the elementary particle that gives all other particles their mass, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.

16 Sep 2014

Researchers Directly Entangle Three Photons

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have directly entangled three photons in the most technologically useful state for the first time, thanks in part to superfast, super-efficient single-photon detectors developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

15 Sep 2014

ESO Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer Helps Discover How Giant Elliptical Galaxies Move

New findings of how giant elliptical galaxies move have been discovered by an international team of astronomers using the newly installed Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) facility.

15 Sep 2014

Neutrons Help Study Formation of Damage-Causing Bubbles in Fuel Injectors

Blowing bubbles may be fun for kids, but for engineers, bubbles can disrupt fluid flow and damage metal.

15 Sep 2014

Fluid Systems Dynamics Mimics Quantum Mechanics

The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been what’s called the “Copenhagen interpretation” — which holds that, in some sense, a single particle really is a wave, smeared out across the universe, that collapses into a determinate location only when observed.

15 Sep 2014

ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor Designated as a Nuclear Historic Landmark

The High Flux Isotope Reactor, or HFIR, now in its 48th year of providing neutrons for research and isotope production at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been designated a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society (ANS).

12 Sep 2014

Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series to Feature Live Webcast Talks with Pre-Eminent Scientists

“You are each a participant in this adventure of science.” With those words, Sylvester James Gates Jr., renowned physicist and member of President Barack Obama’s Scientific Advisory Council, captured the spirit and the future of the Perimeter Institute (PI) Public Lecture Series.

12 Sep 2014

Sound Used to Communicate with Artificial Atom

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology are first to show the use of sound to communicate with an artificial atom. They can thereby demonstrate phenomena from quantum physics with sound taking on the role of light. The results will be published in the journal Science.

12 Sep 2014

Quantum Science News

Sorting Water Molecules: Separation of para and ortho water

Pulsar Powers Luminous Gamma-Ray Source

Chemists Capture Images of Single Molecule Shifting from One Quantum State to Another

Most Galaxy Collisions Result in Disc Galaxies

Ultrathin Metal Oxide Layers Can Control Properties of Quantum Dots

Leading Quantum Gravity Theorist to Lecture on Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

Scientists Explore Landscape of Absolute Zero to Probe Quantum Phase Transitions

Researchers Theorize Possible Solution to Preserve Theory of Supersymmetry

Researchers Directly Entangle Three Photons

ESO Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer Helps Discover How Giant Elliptical Galaxies Move

Neutrons Help Study Formation of Damage-Causing Bubbles in Fuel Injectors

Fluid Systems Dynamics Mimics Quantum Mechanics

ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor Designated as a Nuclear Historic Landmark

Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series to Feature Live Webcast Talks with Pre-Eminent Scientists

Sound Used to Communicate with Artificial Atom

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