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New Research on Photons May Help Develop Distributed Quantum Network

The realisation of quantum networks is one of the major challenges of modern physics. Now, new research shows how high-quality photons can be generated from 'solid-state' chips, bringing us closer to the quantum 'internet'.

20 Mar 2013

New Study Points to Origin of Famous Kepler’s Supernova

A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory points to the origin of a famous supernova. This supernova, discovered in 1604 by Johannes Kepler, belongs to an important class of objects that are used to measure the rate of expansion of the Universe.

19 Mar 2013

GSU Researcher Wins NSF Grant to Measure Black Holes

Black holes, the high-gravity phenomena of galaxies from which no light can escape, will be better measured thanks to a $862,769 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to a Georgia State University astronomer.

19 Mar 2013

Interactions Between Magnetic Spin and Mechanical Vibration Open Up Interesting Applications in Quantum World

In their experiment the researchers used a carbon nanotube that was mounted between two metal electrodes, spanned a distance of about 1 µm, and could vibrate mechanically. Then, they applied an organic molecule with a magnetic spin due to an incorporated metal atom. This spin was oriented in an external magnetic field.

16 Mar 2013

Scientists Use Supercomputers to Generate Massive Simulation Sets Vital to Planck’s Cosmology Results

To make the most precise measurement yet of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – the remnant radiation from the big bang – the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Planck satellite mission has been collecting trillions of observations of the sky since the summer of 2009.

16 Mar 2013

Distant Galaxies are Bursting with Newborn Stars Much Earlier than Previously Thought

Distant, dust-filled galaxies were bursting with newborn stars much earlier in cosmic history than previously thought, according to newly published research.

16 Mar 2013

NASA's Swift Satellite Reveals Unknown Remains of Shattered Star

While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star. Designated G306.3.9 after the coordinates of its sky position, the new object ranks among the youngest-known supernova remnants in our Milky Way galaxy.

16 Mar 2013

New Particle Observed Last Year Resembles Higgs Boson

Julia Thom-Levy, an associate professor of physics at Cornell University, is an expert in experimental elementary particle physics, and involved in data analysis at the Compact Muon Soleniod experiment at the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN.

16 Mar 2013

New Microscope Measures Elusive Property of Nanoscale Magnets Used in Spintronic Systems

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscope able to view and measure an important but elusive property of the nanoscale magnets used in an advanced, experimental form of digital memory.

16 Mar 2013

Researchers Use Hydrogen Molecules to Give a Flexible Structure to CH5+ Molecule

How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular "look" has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx. The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by a single rigid structure, but is dynamically flexible.

15 Mar 2013

Scientists Reveal New Details of Water’s Atomic Structure under Extreme Conditions

Scientist from Dortmund, Helsinki, Potsdam, and the ESRF have revealed details of the microscopic atomic structure of water under extreme conditions. The results have now been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

15 Mar 2013

Academician Receives Major Research Grant to Explore the Limitations of Quantum Theory

A University of Southampton academic has received a major research grant to help him explore the limitations of quantum theory.

15 Mar 2013

Newly Discovered Particle Closely Resembles Higgs Boson

The new particle discovered at experiments at the Large Hadron Collider last summer is looking more like a Higgs boson than ever before, according to results announced today.

15 Mar 2013

Optical Control of TI Photoemission Offers Potential Applications in Quantum Computing

Plain-looking but inherently strange crystalline materials called 3D topological insulators (TIs) are all the rage in materials science. Even at room temperature, a single chunk of TI is a good insulator in the bulk, yet behaves like a metal on its surface.

15 Mar 2013

Gravitational Lenses Expose Starburst Galaxies in the Early Universe

Some of the brightest galaxies in the universe – infant galaxies that churned out tens of thousands of stars each year at the dawn of the universe – evolved much sooner and in greater numbers than previously thought, according to new measurements obtained by University of Arizona astronomers.

14 Mar 2013

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New Research on Photons May Help Develop Distributed Quantum Network

New Study Points to Origin of Famous Kepler’s Supernova

GSU Researcher Wins NSF Grant to Measure Black Holes

Interactions Between Magnetic Spin and Mechanical Vibration Open Up Interesting Applications in Quantum World

Scientists Use Supercomputers to Generate Massive Simulation Sets Vital to Planck’s Cosmology Results

Distant Galaxies are Bursting with Newborn Stars Much Earlier than Previously Thought

NASA's Swift Satellite Reveals Unknown Remains of Shattered Star

New Particle Observed Last Year Resembles Higgs Boson

New Microscope Measures Elusive Property of Nanoscale Magnets Used in Spintronic Systems

Researchers Use Hydrogen Molecules to Give a Flexible Structure to CH5+ Molecule

Scientists Reveal New Details of Water’s Atomic Structure under Extreme Conditions

Academician Receives Major Research Grant to Explore the Limitations of Quantum Theory

Newly Discovered Particle Closely Resembles Higgs Boson

Optical Control of TI Photoemission Offers Potential Applications in Quantum Computing

Gravitational Lenses Expose Starburst Galaxies in the Early Universe

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

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