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Study Discovers New Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor—CaPtAs

At Zhejiang University, China, a team of researchers has discovered that CaPtAs—a noncentrosymmetric compound—is a superconductor, exhibiting evidence for strange properties.

26 Feb 2020

Turbulent Times Revealed on Asteroid 4 Vesta

Planetary scientists at Curtin University have shed some light on the tumultuous early days of the largely preserved protoplanet Asteroid 4 Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System.

26 Feb 2020

New State of Light Created by Researchers

A new "state of light” has been created by scientists at the University of Dayton that may open up a variety of groundbreaking new applications, such as those of quantum communication protocols.

26 Feb 2020

Quantum Properties of Light Used to Create Incredibly Sharp Images

Scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a new 3D imaging system that utilizes the quantum properties of light to produce images that are 40,000 times sharper than existing technologies.

25 Feb 2020

Light-Emitting Material Defects Could Enable Future Quantum-Based Technologies

With quantum technologies as a basis for the future, spaceships and planes could be driven by the momentum of light.

25 Feb 2020

Study Reveals New Details about the Earliest Stages of Star Formation

Using two of the world’s most intense radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers has successfully created over 300 images of planet-creating disks around extremely young stars in the Orion Clouds.

21 Feb 2020

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Surprising History of Sombrero Galaxy

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a new, surprising data, suggesting that the settled and smooth “brim” of the disk of Sombrero galaxy disk may be hiding a chaotic past.

21 Feb 2020

Unseen Complex Atomic Interactions Observed by New Quantum Experiment

For the first time in the field of quantum physics, researchers at the University of Otago have been able to “hold” individual atoms in place and observe complex atomic interactions that have been never seen before.

21 Feb 2020

Superfast Quantum Simulation to Predict Time Evolution of Interacting Electrons

The equations of quantum mechanics can be used to accurately predict the behavior of an electron in an atom, or how it moves within a solid.

21 Feb 2020

Dynamic Stabilization in Topological Matter Used for Protected Quantum Transport

At the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers have found that the key to avoiding dissipations of the preferred electron states, which would render spintronics and advanced quantum computing possible, could be to apply vibrational motion in a periodic way.

19 Feb 2020