Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Quantum Entanglement: Key Insights for Computing

Their study promotes further developments towards quantum computing and a deeper understanding of the foundations of quantum mechanics.Entanglement is a…

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Researchers Convert Quantum Signals for Telecom Networks

The developments move quantum information networks – which securely encode information by entangling photons and atoms – closer to a possible prototype system.

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Coreshine: New Insight Into Stellar Births Discovered

Now, a group of astronomers has discovered a new astronomical phenomenon that appears to be common in such clouds, and promises a new window onto the earliest…

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Rensselaer Study Reveals Effects of Excessive Communication

Individuals within a networked system coordinate their activities by communicating to each other information such as their position, speed, or intention. At…

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Ultrashort Laser Ablation Enables Novel Metal Films

Salvatore Amoruso at University of Naples, Italy and colleagues examined the expansion dynamics of various ultrashort laser ablation plumes and the basic…

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Certain Doped-Oxide Ceramics Resist Ohm's Law

Several of the slightly doped high-purity barium titanate (BT) ceramics his research group was investigating were not following the venerable Ohm's Law, which…

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Progress Toward Terabit-Rate High-Density Recording

Yet the vast storage amount is limited by the ability to write data quickly enough to the device. In the Journal of Applied Physics, researchers at Sun Yat-Sen…

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Watching Electrons Move in Real Time

“Our prototype experiment produces a sort of 'molecular movie' of the atoms in action,” says author Michael Woerner of the Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare…

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UCLA and Caltech Physicists Discover Deep Space Magnetic Fields

Caltech physicist Shin'ichiro Ando and Alexander Kusenko, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, report the discovery in a paper to be published in an…

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Finding hope in a meltdown

Symmetry is a fundamental concept in physics. Our ‘standard model’ of particle physics, for example, predicts that matter and anti-matter should have been…

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New Types Of Rock Found On Moon By Researchers At Stony Brook University And NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

“In layman’s terms, we have discovered a new and fundamentally different type of rock on the Moon,” declares Dr. Timothy Glotch, assistant professor in the…

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Cosmic Ice Sculptures: Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula

These one-light-year-tall pillars of cold hydrogen and dust, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are located in the Carina Nebula. Violent stellar winds and…

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UCLA Physicists Mechanically Control Chemical Reactions

Chemical reactions in the cell are catalyzed by enzymes, which are protein molecules that speed up reactions. Each protein catalyzes a specific reaction. In a…

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Nano-sized BEANs: Unlocking New Data Storage Potential

Now an entire new class of phase-change materials has been discovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the…

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Spin Soliton: A Game Changer for Cell Phone Communication

The team's findings point toward an oscillator that would harness the spin of electrons to generate microwaves—electromagnetic waves in the frequencies used by…

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Chandra Finds Evidence for Stellar Cannibalism

The star in question, known as BP Piscium (BP Psc), appears to be a more evolved version of our Sun, but with a dusty and gaseous disk surrounding it. A pair…

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