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DES Scientists Announce Discovery of Stellar Streams and Small Galaxies

At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public release of their first three years of data.

11 Jan 2018

Supermassive Black Holes Prevent Star Formation in Some Smaller Galaxies

Scientists have discovered evidence that supermassive black holes prevent the formation of stars in some smaller galaxies.

11 Jan 2018

MSU Physicists Develop Magnetic Waveguide to Trap Neutrons

A team from Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (MSU) together with their colleagues developed a magnetic waveguide able to sort neutrons with different spins and storethem different layers. The results of the study may help in study of electronic devices based on not charge of electrons but on their quantum state. The article was published in Physical Review B journal.

10 Jan 2018

Arresting Photon Loss in Transmission Channel Could Upgrade Quantum Networks

Griffith University researchers have overcome a significant difficulty in implementing a strange quantum effect for real applications.

8 Jan 2018

Realizing Quantum Hall Effect in Four Dimensions

Researchers exhibited a method to observe physical phenomena hypothesized to be present in higher dimensional systems, in equivalent real-world experiments.

8 Jan 2018

Astronomers Reveal Overabundance of Massive Stars in a Neighboring Galaxy

An 'astonishing' overabundance of massive stars has been revealed in a neighboring galaxy by a global team of astronomers.

8 Jan 2018

Investigating the Original Characteristic of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function

The wave function, or the quantum state, is the representation of a quantum object and has a significant role in quantum mechanics.

8 Jan 2018

Researchers Show How Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect can be Emulated Using Photons

Two-dimensional experimental set-up developed, enabling analysis of materials' physical characteristics.

5 Jan 2018

Monitoring Hard Drive Quality by Using Innovative, Tiny Quantum Sensor

Researchers are developing a quantum sensor with the ability to accurately evaluate the tiny magnetic fields expected in future hard disks.

4 Jan 2018

Quantum Physics Could Enable Communications and Mapping in Locations

Quantum physics could enable communications and mapping in locations where GPS, ordinary radios and cellphones do not work consistently or even at all.

4 Jan 2018