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Wolf-Rayet Star may be Likely Progenitor of Recently Exploded Supernova

Wolf-Rayet stars are very large and very hot. Astronomers have long wondered whether Wolf-Rayet stars are the progenitors of certain types of supernovae. New work from the Palomar Transient Factory team, including Carnegie’s Mansi Kasliwal, is homing in on the answer. They have identified a Wolf-Rayet star as the likely progenitor of a recently exploded supernova. This work is published by Nature.

23 May 2014

New WISE Results do not Corroborate Black Hole 'Doughnut' Theory

A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

23 May 2014

NGC 3590 Stellar Gathering Gives Clues about How Stars Form and Evolve

NGC 3590 is a small open cluster of stars around 7500 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Carina (The Keel). It is a gathering of dozens of stars loosely bound together by gravity and is roughly 35 million years old.

22 May 2014

Novel Optical Synthesizer Increases Intensity of Attosecond Light Flashes

They shed light on atomic and molecular processes: ultrashort laser pulses are required to study extremely fast quantum phenomena.

22 May 2014

Carnegie-led Team Confirms Presence of Unusually Distant Galaxy Cluster

The structures and star populations of massive galaxies appear to change as they age, but much about how these galaxies formed and evolved remains mysterious.

22 May 2014

Exploded Star Had Nitrogen-Rich Wind

When a supernova – the explosion of a distant star —was discovered last year, astrophysicists, with the help of telescopes around the globe, rushed to observe the fireworks.

22 May 2014

Quantum Materials Provides Update on Acquisition of Intermediate Quantum Dot Production Equipment

Quantum Materials Corp. provided an update on its acquisition of the intermediate quantum dot production equipment that was initiated earlier this year.

22 May 2014

QD Vision to Present Symposium Sessions on Quantum Dot Technology at SID Display Week

Today, QD Vision, Inc., the leading manufacturer of quantum dot optical components for LCD products, announced that co-founders Seth Coe-Sullivan and Jonathan Steckel will be presenting two symposium sessions on quantum dot technology as part of the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week, June 1-6, 2014 in San Diego, California.

21 May 2014

Global Symmetry Not Required for Sped up Search by Quantum Particles

A quantum particle can search for an item in an unsorted "database" by jumping from one item to another in superposition, and it does so faster than a classical computer ever could.

21 May 2014

SWARM Mission to Track and Measure Earth’s Magnetic Forces

Thanks to a constellation of three satellites, ESA’s SWARM mission will track and measure the planet’s magnetic forces from its core to its upper atmosphere. Five months after the launch, the satellites are beginning to gather data.

21 May 2014

Bristol Quantum Computing Researcher Awarded EPSRC Early Career Fellowship

Dr Ashley Montanaro, a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Early Career Fellowship for research on the theory of quantum computing.

21 May 2014

Maximum Theoretical Limit of Energy Needed to Control Magnetization of Single Atom

An EPFL-led research collaboration has shown for the first time the maximum theoretical limit of energy needed to control the magnetization of a single atom. The fundamental work can have great implications for the future of magnetic research and technology.

21 May 2014

Berkeley Lab’s Superheavy-Element Research Team Does Chemistry One Atom at a Time

It’s now more or less official: element 117 will have a seat at the periodic table. Earlier this month an international team of scientists that included researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Nuclear Science Division found two atoms of superheavy element 117.

21 May 2014

Water Molecules Caged in Fullerene Spheres Provide Deeper Insight into Spin Isomers

In a new paper in the Journal of Chemical Physics, produced by AIP Publishing, a research team in the United Kingdom and the United States describes how water molecules "caged" in fullerene spheres ("buckyballs") are providing a deeper insight into spin isomers -- varieties of a molecule that differ in their nuclear spin.

21 May 2014

Theoretical Model of Environment's Influence on Particles Does Not Violate Third Law of Thermodynamics

A change of models demystifies anomalous particle behavior at very low temperatures, confirming that the third law of thermodynamics cannot be violated

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 21 May 2014

Quantum Science News

Wolf-Rayet Star may be Likely Progenitor of Recently Exploded Supernova

New WISE Results do not Corroborate Black Hole 'Doughnut' Theory

NGC 3590 Stellar Gathering Gives Clues about How Stars Form and Evolve

Novel Optical Synthesizer Increases Intensity of Attosecond Light Flashes

Carnegie-led Team Confirms Presence of Unusually Distant Galaxy Cluster

Exploded Star Had Nitrogen-Rich Wind

Quantum Materials Provides Update on Acquisition of Intermediate Quantum Dot Production Equipment

QD Vision to Present Symposium Sessions on Quantum Dot Technology at SID Display Week

Global Symmetry Not Required for Sped up Search by Quantum Particles

SWARM Mission to Track and Measure Earth’s Magnetic Forces

Bristol Quantum Computing Researcher Awarded EPSRC Early Career Fellowship

Maximum Theoretical Limit of Energy Needed to Control Magnetization of Single Atom

Berkeley Lab’s Superheavy-Element Research Team Does Chemistry One Atom at a Time

Water Molecules Caged in Fullerene Spheres Provide Deeper Insight into Spin Isomers

Theoretical Model of Environment's Influence on Particles Does Not Violate Third Law of Thermodynamics

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