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NIST's Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices Help Discover Evidence of Universe’s Rapid Inflation

The view back in time—way back to the origins of the universe—just got clearer. Much clearer.

19 Mar 2014

Scientists Uncover Origin and Cause of Rare, Powerful Sun Storm

In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international team of scientists, including three from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center, uncovers the origin and cause of an extreme space weather event that occurred on July 22, 2012 at the sun and generated the fastest solar wind speed ever recorded directly by a solar wind instrument.

19 Mar 2014

Chalmers Group Focuses on ‘Spintronic Devices’

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The research focus of our group at Chalmers is on “spintronic devices”, using semiconductor nanostructures, graphene, and other two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. We explore designer heterostructures of 2D layered materials for next generation spintronics devices.

19 Mar 2014

D-Wave Computing Machine Uses Quantum Effects, Confirms ETH Zurich Team

D-Wave – a special computing machine with this name has been getting computer scientists and physicists talking for a number of years now. The Canadian technology company of the same name is advertising the machine as a quantum computer. However, whether or not the machine does in fact use quantum effects is the subject of controversial debate amongst experts in the field. If it does, then this would make D-Wave the world's first commercially available quantum computer.

19 Mar 2014

Evidence for Primordial Gravitational Waves Discovered

Echoes of the big bang have been identified in research published today (17 March 2014) by scientists at Harvard University.

18 Mar 2014

The Universe May Have Expanded by 100 Trillion Trillion Times

Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive period of growth called inflation. This is the strongest confirmation yet of cosmic inflation theories, which say the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, in less than the blink of an eye.

18 Mar 2014

Data Confirms Deep Connection between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of our best telescopes. All this, of course, was just theory.

18 Mar 2014

Hubble's Infrared Vision Captures Churning Region of Star Birth to Celebrate 24th Anniversary

In celebration of the 24th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured infrared-light images of a churning region of star birth 6,400 light-years away.

18 Mar 2014

BICEP2 Discovery Supports Cosmic Inflation Theory of How the Universe Began

The detection of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole supports the cosmic inflation theory of how the universe came to be. The discovery, made in part by Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo, supports the theoretical work of Stanford's Andrei Linde.

18 Mar 2014

Mathematical Proofs Refine Stephen Hawking's Definition of Region's Mass in Spacetime

If you want to know your body's mass, you hop on a scale and watch the needle swing. But if you want to know the mass of a region out in space, there's no cosmic equivalent -- the best you can do is consult a geometric formula.

18 Mar 2014

New Tool for Analyzing Mountains of Data from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Lightsource X-ray Laser

A new tool for analyzing mountains of data from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Lightsource (LCLS) X-ray laser can produce high-quality images of important proteins using fewer samples. Scientists hope to use it to reveal the structures and functions of proteins that have proven elusive, as well as mine data from past experiments for new information.

17 Mar 2014

Electrons Use Quantum Mechanical Trick to Slip through Insulating Barrier

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.

17 Mar 2014

Warm Dust Observed in Environment of Supermassive Black Hole in Active Galaxy

An international research team led by Konrad Tristram from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, obtained the most detailed view so far of the warm dust in the environment of a supermassive black hole in an active galaxy.

14 Mar 2014

Researchers Control Rotational Temperature of Molecular Ions

Chemical reactions taking place in outer space can now be more easily studied on Earth. An international team of researchers from the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, discovered an efficient and versatile way of braking the rotation of molecular ions.

14 Mar 2014

Lasers Cool Atoms to Create New Type of ‘Ultracold’ Molecule

Researchers have created a new type of "ultracold" molecule, using lasers to cool atoms nearly to absolute zero and then gluing them together, a technology that might be applied to quantum computing, precise sensors and advanced simulations.

13 Mar 2014

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NIST's Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices Help Discover Evidence of Universe’s Rapid Inflation

Scientists Uncover Origin and Cause of Rare, Powerful Sun Storm

Chalmers Group Focuses on ‘Spintronic Devices’

D-Wave Computing Machine Uses Quantum Effects, Confirms ETH Zurich Team

Evidence for Primordial Gravitational Waves Discovered

The Universe May Have Expanded by 100 Trillion Trillion Times

Data Confirms Deep Connection between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

Hubble's Infrared Vision Captures Churning Region of Star Birth to Celebrate 24th Anniversary

BICEP2 Discovery Supports Cosmic Inflation Theory of How the Universe Began

Mathematical Proofs Refine Stephen Hawking's Definition of Region's Mass in Spacetime

New Tool for Analyzing Mountains of Data from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Lightsource X-ray Laser

Electrons Use Quantum Mechanical Trick to Slip through Insulating Barrier

Warm Dust Observed in Environment of Supermassive Black Hole in Active Galaxy

Researchers Control Rotational Temperature of Molecular Ions

Lasers Cool Atoms to Create New Type of ‘Ultracold’ Molecule

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Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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