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Weizmann Institute Scientists Create World's Smallest SQUID

Weizmann Institute scientists have taken a quantum leap toward understanding the phenomenon known as superconductivity: They have created the world's smallest SQUID – a device used to measure magnetic fields – which has broken the world record for sensitivity and resolution.

26 Nov 2013

Astrophysicists to Simulate Extreme Black Holes with Support from $525,000 grant from NSF

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are on the hunt for gravitational waves and clues about the early universe. Their simulations of black holes colliding—and the gravitational waves produced from the impact—will be the blueprints for detecting actual gravity waves and verifying Einstein's theory of general relativity—an event that could occur within the decade.

26 Nov 2013

Rice University Researchers Report Superfluorescent Bursts from Quantum Wells

Spontaneous bursts of light from a solid block illuminate the unusual way interacting quantum particles behave when they are driven far from equilibrium. The discovery by Rice University scientists of a way to trigger these flashes may lead to new telecommunications equipment and other devices that transmit signals at picosecond speeds.

26 Nov 2013

Study Results Provide New Insights into High-Temperature Superconductivity

Classical and high-temperature superconductors differ hugely in the value of the critical temperatures at which they lose all electrical resistance. Scientists have now used powerful X-rays to establish another big difference: high-temperature superconductivity cannot be accounted for by the mechanism that leads to conventional superconductivity.

25 Nov 2013

Researchers Exploit Decay to Create Entanglement of Atomic Systems

Usually, when researchers work with quantum information, they do everything they can to prevent the information from decaying. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have flipped things around and are exploiting the decay to create the so-called entanglement of atomic systems, which is the foundation for quantum information processing. The results are published in the scientific journal, Nature.

25 Nov 2013

NIST Experiment Shows How Quantum Computing Can Benefit from Lost Data

Suggesting that quantum computers might benefit from losing some data, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have entangled—linked the quantum properties of—two ions by leaking judiciously chosen information to the environment.

25 Nov 2013

International Research Team Announces First Solid Evidence for Astrophysical Neutrinos

An international team of scientists that includes University of Adelaide researchers today announced the first solid evidence for astrophysical neutrinos - very high-energy particles coming from distant regions of our galaxy or further - which will lead to new ways of exploring the Universe.

25 Nov 2013

Trio of NASA Satellites Capture Never-Before-Seen Details of Gamma-Ray Burst

On April 27, a blast of light from a dying star in a distant galaxy became the focus of astronomers around the world. The explosion, known as a gamma-ray burst and designated GRB 130427A, tops the charts as one of the brightest ever seen.

22 Nov 2013

RAPTOR Intelligent Visual System Witnesses Rare Birth of Black Hole

Intelligent telescopes designed by Los Alamos National Laboratory got a front row seat recently for an unusual birth.

22 Nov 2013

Rare Far-Flung Trio of Primitive Galaxies May Eventually Merge

Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile and NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have discovered a far-flung trio of primitive galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of primordial gas nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth. It's possible the trio will eventually merge into a single galaxy similar to our own Milky Way.

22 Nov 2013

Quantum Cowboy Teaches Physics on 1,000 Acre Farm

On 1,000 acres of verdant grass and dirt trails 35 miles north of Bryan and strewn with some 200 cows and calves, world-renowned Texas A&M University quantum physicist Marlan Scully is cultivating a vision befitting his nickname, "the Quantum Cowboy" -- a farm where he combines cutting-edge laser research with student teaching, from the latest in science to more efficient farming.

22 Nov 2013

First Solid Evidence for Astrophysical Neutrinos from Cosmic Accelerators

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a particle detector buried in the Antarctic ice, is a demonstration of the power of the human passion for discovery, where scientific ingenuity meets technological innovation. Today, nearly 25 years after the pioneering idea of detecting neutrinos in ice, the IceCube Collaboration announces the observation of 28 very high-energy particle events that constitute the first solid evidence for astrophysical neutrinos from cosmic accelerators.

22 Nov 2013

Lunar Dust Accumulates 10 Times Faster Than Previous Estimates

When Neil Armstrong took humanity's first otherworldly steps in 1969, he didn't know what a nuisance the lunar soil beneath his feet would prove to be. The scratchy dust clung to everything it touched, causing scientific instruments to overheat and, for Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a sort of lunar dust hay fever. The annoying particles even prompted a scientific experiment to figure out how fast they collect, but NASA's data got lost.

21 Nov 2013

New Evidence for High-Energy Particle Jet from Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. Finally they have found it, in new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

21 Nov 2013

Small Asteroids Can Cause Serious Damage

Once in a lifetime, a physicist may get a chance to test his theories and simulations in a real-life event that changes the course of his scientific life. But rarely does that opportunity literally fall from the sky.

21 Nov 2013

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Weizmann Institute Scientists Create World's Smallest SQUID

Astrophysicists to Simulate Extreme Black Holes with Support from $525,000 grant from NSF

Rice University Researchers Report Superfluorescent Bursts from Quantum Wells

Study Results Provide New Insights into High-Temperature Superconductivity

Researchers Exploit Decay to Create Entanglement of Atomic Systems

NIST Experiment Shows How Quantum Computing Can Benefit from Lost Data

International Research Team Announces First Solid Evidence for Astrophysical Neutrinos

Trio of NASA Satellites Capture Never-Before-Seen Details of Gamma-Ray Burst

RAPTOR Intelligent Visual System Witnesses Rare Birth of Black Hole

Rare Far-Flung Trio of Primitive Galaxies May Eventually Merge

Quantum Cowboy Teaches Physics on 1,000 Acre Farm

First Solid Evidence for Astrophysical Neutrinos from Cosmic Accelerators

Lunar Dust Accumulates 10 Times Faster Than Previous Estimates

New Evidence for High-Energy Particle Jet from Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

Small Asteroids Can Cause Serious Damage

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