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MAGIC Telescopes See Most Epic Explosion

A violent explosion in a distant galaxy has broken the record for the brightest source of high-energy light in the Universe.

21 Nov 2019

Outback Telescope Captures Milky Way Center, Discovers Remnants of Dead Stars

A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of the centre of the galaxy in which we live, the Milky Way.

21 Nov 2019

First Demonstration of High-Speed Magnetic Skyrmion Motion at Room Temperature

For the first time, a team of researchers at Tohoku University has been successful in demonstrating the formation and current-triggered motion of synthetic antiferromagnetic magnetic skyrmions.

20 Nov 2019

New Theoretical Model Overcomes Major Obstacle to the Use of Nanooptical Traps

Quantum properties can be studied and rendered applicable for technological applications through the control of individual atoms. For nearly a decade, physicists have been performing research on a technique with the potential to capture and control atoms—the so-called nanooptical traps.

20 Nov 2019

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Honoured in the 2019 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has been recognised in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19), in Denver, Colorado.

20 Nov 2019

New Protocol Allows a Quantum Computer to Check its Own Answer to Difficult Problems

A novel test was recently performed to assess whether a quantum computer can provide accurate answers to queries that are beyond the capabilities of conventional computing. Such a test can result in the development of the first quantum computer that would supersede a traditional computer.

19 Nov 2019