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Updates on CERN’s New Particle Discovery to Be Presented at Moriond Conference

Geneva 1 March 2013. Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are set to present their latest results at the Moriond conference, which begins tomorrow in the Italian town of La Thuile, and runs until 16 March.

2 Mar 2013

Research and Markets Offers Company Profile on Quantum Dots Manufacturer

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Analysis of Nanoco Group PLC" company profile to their offering.

2 Mar 2013

Third “Storage Ring” Radiation Belt Found Wrapped Around the Earth

With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced the revision of a 50-year-old theory about the structure of the radiation belts that wrap around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads.

2 Mar 2013

Black Hole Collision May Have Caused Violent Celestial Fireworks in the Galactic Center

These days the core of the Milky Way galaxy is a pretty tame place...cosmically speaking. The galactic black hole at the center is a sleeping giant. Existing stars are peacefully circling. Although conditions are favorable, there doesn’t even seem to be much new star formation going on.

2 Mar 2013

Giant Planet Forms in Ring of Dust around Young Star

An international team led by Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) has studied the disc of gas and dust that surrounds the young star HD 100546, a relatively nearby neighbour located 335 light-years from Earth. They were surprised to find what seems to be a planet in the process of being formed, still embedded in the disc of material around the young star. The candidate planet would be a gas giant similar to Jupiter.

1 Mar 2013

Critical Prebiotic Molecules Discovered in Interstellar Space

Using new technology at the telescope and in laboratories, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space. The discoveries indicate that some basic chemicals that are key steps on the way to life may have formed on dusty ice grains floating between the stars.

1 Mar 2013

Quantum Properties Become Invisible When Ultra Cold Bose-Einstein Condensates Tend Towards Equilibrium State

Order tends towards disorder. This is also true for quantum states. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology show that in quantum mechanics this transition can be quite different from what we experience in our daily lives.

1 Mar 2013

UCLA Sponsors Workshop on the Higgs Boson

David Cline, a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Xiaoping Ding, an assistant researcher at UCLA, have conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and have established that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space.

1 Mar 2013

Pulsar’s LAT Data Transformed into a Mesmerizing Movie

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours, capturing the highest-energy form of light -- gamma rays -- from sources across the universe.

1 Mar 2013

NSERC Awards E.W.R Steacie Fellowship to IQC Quantum Researcher

Professor Kevin Resch is an experimental physicist working in quantum information science, in particular the development of quantum sources of light and interferometric sensors.

28 Feb 2013

Robotic Telescope Helps Spot White Dwarf Supernovae

Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova.

28 Feb 2013

U of T Quantum Researchers Win NSERC Awards

University of Toronto researchers won or shared honours in six of eight prize categories in this year’s awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), presented today in Ottawa.

28 Feb 2013

Astronomers Measure Super-Fast Spin of Supermassive Black Hole

Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across - eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon - spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Such an object exists: the supermassive black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365.

28 Feb 2013

Superconducting Quantum-Interference Devices Help Extract Microwave Photons out of Vacuum's Quantum Noise

The researchers conducted a mirror experiment to show that by changing the position of the mirror in a vacuum, virtual particles can be transformed into real photons that can be experimentally observed. In a vacuum, there is energy and noise, the existence of which follows the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics.

27 Feb 2013

APS Names CQT Quantum Researcher as ‘Outstanding Referee’

CQT Research Fellow Martin Kiffner has been named an "Outstanding Referee" by the American Physical Society (APS). Starting in 2008, the society has given the award to scientists who have been "exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication".

27 Feb 2013

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Updates on CERN’s New Particle Discovery to Be Presented at Moriond Conference

Research and Markets Offers Company Profile on Quantum Dots Manufacturer

Third “Storage Ring” Radiation Belt Found Wrapped Around the Earth

Black Hole Collision May Have Caused Violent Celestial Fireworks in the Galactic Center

Giant Planet Forms in Ring of Dust around Young Star

Critical Prebiotic Molecules Discovered in Interstellar Space

Quantum Properties Become Invisible When Ultra Cold Bose-Einstein Condensates Tend Towards Equilibrium State

UCLA Sponsors Workshop on the Higgs Boson

Pulsar’s LAT Data Transformed into a Mesmerizing Movie

NSERC Awards E.W.R Steacie Fellowship to IQC Quantum Researcher

Robotic Telescope Helps Spot White Dwarf Supernovae

U of T Quantum Researchers Win NSERC Awards

Astronomers Measure Super-Fast Spin of Supermassive Black Hole

Superconducting Quantum-Interference Devices Help Extract Microwave Photons out of Vacuum's Quantum Noise

APS Names CQT Quantum Researcher as ‘Outstanding Referee’

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