Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Entangled Photons from Quantum Dots: JQI’s Latest Breakthrough

Now, physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative organization of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the…

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New Insights into NGC 4710’s Unique Boxy Bulge

This exceptionally detailed edge-on view of NGC 4710 taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard Hubble reveals the galaxy's bulge in the brightly…

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Oak Ridge ‘Jaguar’ Supercomputer is World’s Fastest

An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the “Jaguar” supercomputer the world’s fastest….

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China Joins Thirty Meter Telescope Project

“The TMT is delighted to take this exciting new step forward in our relationship with the National Astronomical Observatories of China,” said Henry Yang,…

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NIST demonstrates 'universal' programmable quantum processor

The processor could be a module in a future quantum computer, which theoretically could solve some important problems that are intractable today.The NIST…

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Innovative Nanowire Synthesis via Gas Blocker in CVD Process

Reported by Megawati Omar, Research Management Institute, UiTMResearchers Mohd Zainizan Sahdan, Mohd Hafiz Mamat, Zuraida Khusaimi, Mohd Noor and Mohd Rusop…

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Exploring Molecules: Challenges of Nanometer Scale Innovations

However, severe problems arise due to quantum-mechanical phenomena when conventional structures are simply made smaller and reach the nanometer scale….

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ESA Spacecraft Aims to Unravel Cosmic Mystery Since 1990

Since 1990, scientists and mission controllers at ESA and NASA have noticed that their spacecraft sometimes experience a strange variation in the amount of…

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Rosetta’s Final Earth Swingby: Journey to the Outer Solar System

Rosetta passed over the ocean, just South of the Indonesian island of Java, at exactly 08:45:40 CET, at a speed of 13.34 km/s with respect to Earth at an…

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New Carriers for Space Station Boost Experiment Deployment

The ELCs will provide scientists with a platform and infrastructure to deploy experiments in the vacuum of space without requiring a separate dedicated…

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Pushing Light Beyond Its Known Limits

The researchers in the University's new Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) have discovered that light within optical fibers can be squeezed into…

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Ionic Liquid’s Makeup Measurably Non-Uniform at the Nanoscale

Their findings were published online in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. The article was selected for inclusion in the Institute of Physics’ IOP…

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SUNRISE Telescope: Exploring Solar Mysteries from Above

The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and partners in…

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2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found — but they're stars not planets

Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres – however there is a bit…

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Atomic Particles Help Solve Planetary Puzzle

Fangzhen Teng, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas, and Wei Yang and Hong-Fu Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report their…

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APS Council Overwhelmingly Rejects Proposal to Replace Society’s Current Climate Change Statement

The Council’s vote came after it received a report from a committee of eminent scientists who reviewed the existing statement in response to a petition…

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