Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Computer Breakthrough: New Insights into Dark Matter

Quantum Computer Breakthrough Chao-Yang Lu, Daniel E. Browne, Tao Yang, and Jian-Wei Pan Physical Review Letters (forthcoming) and B. P. Lanyon, T. J….

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Dark energy – ten years on

This month in Physics World, Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter, both at the University of California at Berkeley, reveal how little we know about dark energy and…

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Holiday Wishes from Hubble: Stunning Spiral Galaxy Image

In the new Hubble image we can also see a smattering of bright pink regions decorating the spiral arms. These are huge, relatively short-lived, clouds of…

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Mars Opposes the Sun: What to Expect on December 24

On that date the planet will be in line with the Earth and Sun and from the ground will appear to be opposite the Sun in the sky (at opposition).This year Mars…

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First Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics System Enhances Astronomy

The ground-layer adaptive optics system, or GLAS, works with a high-tech pulsed laser. The laser beam is projected from a small telescope mounted behind the…

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'High Q' NIST nanowires may be practical oscillators

Because a high Q factor indicates a capacity for stable vibrations, the nanowires might be used as oscillators in nano-electromechanical systems for future…

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Voyager 2 Set to Cross Major Milestone in Deep Space

Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the…

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New Discovery: Faint Protogalaxies Found in Deep Space

“The farther we look back into space the farther we see back in time,” explained Rauch.” We were actually trying to measure a faint signal from intergalactic…

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Chandra Observes Neutron Star RX J0822-4300’s Cosmic Cannonball

Astronomers used Chandra to observe a neutron star, known as RX J0822-4300, over a period of about five years. During that span, three Chandra observations…

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Organic ‘building blocks’ discovered in Titan’s atmosphere

These particles may act as organic building blocks for even more complicated molecules and their discovery was completely unexpected because of the chemical…

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Japan and ITER Sign Key Agreement for Superconductor Production

This Procurement Arrangement is for part of the conductor for the 18 Toroidal Field (TF) Coils that will confine the plasma within the ITER machine. “Being the…

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NIST announces first observation of 'persistent flow' in a gas

This relatively long-lived flow, a hallmark of a special property known as “superfluidity,” might help bring to the surface some deep physics insights, and…

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UK Minister Highlights Physics Research’s Economic Impact

IOP used the opportunity to highlight their recent research which demonstrates the important contribution that the physics-based sector has been making to the…

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Pierre Auger Observatory Advances Understanding of Cosmic Rays

Scientists of the Pierre Auger Observatory have demonstrated that these particles do not arrive uniformly distributed across the sky. Instead their arrival…

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New Radiation Monitoring Device for Earth and Space

A new type of measuring device which can even register several types of radiation simultaneously, comes at the right time here. The physicist Dr. Marlies…

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3-D TV in the future made possible by artificial ‘wormholes’ International mathematicians create wormhole construction model

A wormhole is a concept used in the theory of relativity that describes shortcuts between two points running outside ordinary space. The term ‘wormhole’ comes…

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