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Astronomers Produce New Maps of Material Located Between the Stars

An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer to cracking a stardust puzzle that has vexed them for nearly a century.

18 Aug 2014

Kansas State University’s Lithium-Based Neutron Detector Wins 2014 R&D 100 Award

Kansas State University engineers have developed a lithium-based neutron detector that is being recognized as one of the year's Top 100 newly developed technologies.

14 Aug 2014

Methane Clouds Move Across Northern Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn's Moon

NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's moon Titan.

13 Aug 2014

NuSTAR Captures Images of X-ray Light Streaming from Regions Near Supermassive Black Hole

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.

13 Aug 2014

Neutrinos May Provide Clues About Nuclear Proliferation

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and even in the fictional world of CBS' “The Big Bang Theory” look to subatomic particles called neutrinos to answer the big questions about the universe.

13 Aug 2014

Researchers in Quantum Engineering Explore both Basic and Applied Research

It can be difficult to distinguish between basic and applied research in the nascent field of quantum engineering. One person’s exploration of quantum systems like atoms and electrons yields another’s building block for quantum computers, and vice versa.

13 Aug 2014

Rice Physicist Receives $1.5 Million Moore Foundation Grant to Study Quantum Materials

Thanks to a $1.5 million innovation award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Rice University physicist Emilia Morosan is embarking on a five-year quest to cook up a few unique compounds that have never been synthesized or explored.

13 Aug 2014

ALMA Captures 3D Images of Ghostly Atmospheres Surrounding Comets

An international team of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has made incredible 3D images of the ghostly atmospheres surrounding comets ISON and Lemmon. These new observations provided important insights into how and where comets forge new chemicals, including intriguing organic compounds.

13 Aug 2014

New Solution for How Ancient Quasars Grew

A new model shows how early black holes could have grown to over a billion solar masses

12 Aug 2014

Hydrogen-Treated Fibers May Help Reduce Errors in Quantum Computing

To make a better optical fiber for transmitting laser beams, the first idea that comes to mind is probably not a nice long hydrogen bath.

12 Aug 2014

UT Arlington Physicists May Have Discovered Exomoons

Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, in recent years, but so far, no one has been able to confirm an exomoon. Now, physicists from The University of Texas at Arlington believe following a trail of radio wave emissions may lead them to that discovery.

12 Aug 2014

EPJ Quantum Technology Publishes an Overview of Quantum Simulators

Everything you ever wanted to know about quantum simulators summed up in a new review from EPJ Quantum Technology

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 12 Aug 2014

New 3M Quantum Dot Enhancement Film Technology forLCD Screens Presented at ACS Meeting

High-tech specks called quantum dots could bring brighter, more vibrant color to mass market TVs, tablets, phones and other displays. Today, a scientist will describe a new technology called 3M quantum dot enhancement film (QDEF) that efficiently makes liquid crystal display (LCD) screens more richly colored.

12 Aug 2014

Application of Electric Field in Semiconductor Material Can Boost Efficiency of Spin-Hall Effect

UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials, offering a radical way to develop a new generation of electronic devices.

12 Aug 2014

Robust Approach to Certify Quantum Devices

An international team including CQT researchers has come up with a "robust and versatile" scheme for doing quality testing of quantum devices. The scheme is described in a 22 July paper in Physical Review Letters.

11 Aug 2014

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Astronomers Produce New Maps of Material Located Between the Stars

Kansas State University’s Lithium-Based Neutron Detector Wins 2014 R&D 100 Award

Methane Clouds Move Across Northern Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn's Moon

NuSTAR Captures Images of X-ray Light Streaming from Regions Near Supermassive Black Hole

Neutrinos May Provide Clues About Nuclear Proliferation

Researchers in Quantum Engineering Explore both Basic and Applied Research

Rice Physicist Receives $1.5 Million Moore Foundation Grant to Study Quantum Materials

ALMA Captures 3D Images of Ghostly Atmospheres Surrounding Comets

New Solution for How Ancient Quasars Grew

Hydrogen-Treated Fibers May Help Reduce Errors in Quantum Computing

UT Arlington Physicists May Have Discovered Exomoons

EPJ Quantum Technology Publishes an Overview of Quantum Simulators

New 3M Quantum Dot Enhancement Film Technology forLCD Screens Presented at ACS Meeting

Application of Electric Field in Semiconductor Material Can Boost Efficiency of Spin-Hall Effect

Robust Approach to Certify Quantum Devices

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