Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: largest map of cold dust revealed

This new guide for astronomers, known as the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) shows the Milky Way in submillimetre-wavelength light…

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Intense heat killed the Universe's would-be galaxies

The research, to be presented at an international conference today (Wednesday, July 1), also forms a core part of a new ICC movie charting the evolution of the…

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Breakthrough Technology Enhances Light Microscopy Resolution

In the past, even modern technologies have failed to produce high-resolution fluorescence images from this depth because of the strong scattering of light. In…

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First Working Model of a 2-Qubit Quantum Processor Unveiled

A team led by Yale University researchers has successfully implemented simple algorithms using a quantum processor based on microwave solid-state…

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New Fluorescent Silicon Nanoparticles Developed at Leicester

Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the…

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Largest Survey of Distant Galaxy Clusters Completed

An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies.

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Astronomers Uncover New Binary Star Systems in Formation

A binary star system consists of two stars bound together by gravity that orbit a common center of gravity. Most stars form as binaries, and if both stars are…

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Laser-Created Lens Unlocks Movies of Molecular Processes

Finding a way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level has long been one of the holy grails among physicists. That ability could…

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O’Hare Airport Exhibit Provides Portal to Cosmos

“From Earth to the Universe,” an exhibit of 56 astronomical images, is on display through the end of the year at O’Hare. Scientists at the University of…

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Flash-Freezing Molecular Ions: Insights into Cold Matter

This kind of laboratory astrophysics helps to understand in more detail the physical and chemical properties of cold interstellar matter.The interaction of…

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Creating Nanoparticles in Artificial Cells for Advanced Research

The researchers produced cadmium sulphide particles in microscopically small membrane bubbles. Depending on which of the construction manuals they follow, the…

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Scientists create first electronic quantum processor

They also used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully run elementary algorithms, such as a simple search, demonstrating quantum information…

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Enceladus: Discovering Salty Ocean Plumes from Saturn’s Moon

An enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. In a report published in the international science journal…

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Streaming Sand Grains Reveal Liquid Essence Insights

Physicists seeking to answer this question have, for the first time, measured the nanoscale forces that cause droplet formation in a falling stream of tiny…

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Lasers Boost Quantum Bit Memory Capacity by 1,000 Times

These precarious bits, formed in this case by arrays of semiconductor quantum dots containing a single extra electron, are easily perturbed by magnetic field…

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Compact Mini-Beamer Technology Transforms Mobile Viewing Experience

Today, a choice has to be made whether to stay by the lake or watch the match on a big public screen or the TV set at home. In future, barbecue enthusiasts and…

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