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Quantum Computing Company Among Dutch Tech Startups in NYC Boot Camp

The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – in collaboration with WeWork – today announced a delegation of the Netherlands’ most promising tech startups will visit New York City from June 3-6 to experience the booming NYC tech scene.

31 May 2013

Quantum Dots Boost Ability of Bulk Semiconductors to Convert Heat into Power

High-performance thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat to electricity could one day be a source of more sustainable power. But they need to be a lot more efficient before they could be effective on a broad scale in places like power plants or military bases, researchers say.

31 May 2013

CERN Council Adopts Update to European Strategy for Particle Physics at Special Meeting

At a special meeting hosted by the European Commission in Brussels today, the CERN Council1 formally adopted an update to the European strategy for particle physics. Since the original European strategy was put in place in 2006, particle physics has made considerable progress in elucidating the laws of nature at the most fundamental level.

31 May 2013

Swinburne Offered Federal Grant to Lead Design of Square Kilometre Array’s Pulsar Signal Processor

Swinburne University of Technology has been offered a $638,000 grant from the Federal Government to lead the design of astronomical instrumentation for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.

31 May 2013

McGill Researchers Discover New Kind of Glitch in the Cosmos

The physics behind some of the most extraordinary stellar objects in the Universe just became even more puzzling.

30 May 2013

Spinning Magnetar Suddenly Slows Down

Astronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use to understand these extremely dense objects.

30 May 2013

Sodium Levels Predict How Stars End Their Lives

The way in which stars evolve and end their lives was for many years considered to be well understood. Detailed computer models predicted that stars of a similar mass to the Sun would have a period towards the ends of their lives — called the asymptotic giant branch, or AGB — when they undergo a final burst of nuclear burning and puff off a lot of their mass in the form of gas and dust.

30 May 2013

Crucial Ingredient of High-Temperature Superconductivity Found in Different Class of Materials

Physicists at the University of Arkansas have collaborated with scientists in the United States and Asia to discover that a crucial ingredient of high-temperature superconductivity could be found in an entirely different class of materials.

30 May 2013

Neutron Star Rapidly Drops Speed of Rotation

One of the densest objects in the universe, a neutron star about 10,000 light years from Earth, has been discovered suddenly putting the brakes on its spinning speed. The event is a mystery that holds important clues for understanding how matter reacts when it is squeezed more tightly than the density of an atomic nucleus -- a state that no laboratory on Earth has achieved.

30 May 2013

Researchers Identify Threshold at Which Entanglement Occurs in Large Quantum Systems

Entanglement is a property in quantum mechanics that seemed so unbelievable and so lacking in detail that, 66 years ago this spring, Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.”

30 May 2013

Physicists Calculate Failure Probability of Quantum Encryption Schemes

Quantum communication systems offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Unlike classical encryption, which is used to send secure data over networks today and whose security depends on the difficulty of solving mathematical problems like the factoring of large numbers, most quantum encryption schemes keep the encryption key separate from the data.

29 May 2013

Kiel-Greifswald Plasma Physics Research Center Granted a Third Funding Period

The Collaborative Research Centre TRR 24 "Fundamentals of Complex Plasmas" has been granted a third funding period and new 6.5 million euros by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The DFG decision is based on the positive evaluation by a high-rank international review panel.

28 May 2013

Germanium Delivery Begins in Effort to Understand Puzzling Imbalance between Matter and Antimatter

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang.

27 May 2013

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics to Host 2013 String-Math Conferences

Organizing Committee: Alexander Abanov, Michael Douglas, Ljudmila Kamenova, Claude LeBrun, John Morgan, Nikita Nekrasov, Leonardo Rastelli, and Martin Rocek

27 May 2013

Best Measurement of Evolution of Extragalactic Background Light Over the Past 5 Billion Years

How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon (particle of light) from ultraviolet to far infrared wavelengths ever radiated by all galaxies that ever existed throughout cosmic history is still speeding through the Universe today.

27 May 2013

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Quantum Computing Company Among Dutch Tech Startups in NYC Boot Camp

Quantum Dots Boost Ability of Bulk Semiconductors to Convert Heat into Power

CERN Council Adopts Update to European Strategy for Particle Physics at Special Meeting

Swinburne Offered Federal Grant to Lead Design of Square Kilometre Array’s Pulsar Signal Processor

McGill Researchers Discover New Kind of Glitch in the Cosmos

Spinning Magnetar Suddenly Slows Down

Sodium Levels Predict How Stars End Their Lives

Crucial Ingredient of High-Temperature Superconductivity Found in Different Class of Materials

Neutron Star Rapidly Drops Speed of Rotation

Researchers Identify Threshold at Which Entanglement Occurs in Large Quantum Systems

Physicists Calculate Failure Probability of Quantum Encryption Schemes

Kiel-Greifswald Plasma Physics Research Center Granted a Third Funding Period

Germanium Delivery Begins in Effort to Understand Puzzling Imbalance between Matter and Antimatter

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics to Host 2013 String-Math Conferences

Best Measurement of Evolution of Extragalactic Background Light Over the Past 5 Billion Years

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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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