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Clusters of Stars May Not Be Forming From Inside Out

An important advance in understanding how clusters of stars like our sun are formed has been made by a team that includes seven astronomers at Penn State and two at other universities. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, the astronomers have shown that earlier theories about the process that creates star clusters in giant clouds of gas and dust cannot be correct.

9 May 2014

DOE Awards Early Career Research Program Funding to Northwestern University Physicists

Two young Northwestern University physicists -- Eric Dahl and Nathaniel Stern -- have been selected by the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science to receive significant research funding as part of the DOE’s highly selective Early Career Research Program.

9 May 2014

Alexander von Humboldt Professorships Conferred on JGU Fellows

The German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Professor Johanna Wanka, and the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Professor Helmut Schwarz, have today conferred one of six prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorships to theoretical physicist Professor Jairo Sinova of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).

9 May 2014

Method Combining Quantum and Classical Physics Poses a Great Challenge in Modelling

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and international partners are using advanced supercomputers to develop a new framework for accurate materials simulation.

9 May 2014

Kavli Showcases Cosmic Research at Second Annual Public Open House

The sky was the limit for the 550 visitors that swarmed SLAC’s Kavli Building into the late evening on May 3. They were attending the second annual Public Open House hosted by the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) to showcase its cosmic research.

9 May 2014

Solution Found to Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity

Scientists seeking to understand the intricacies of high-temperature superconductivity—the ability of certain materials to carry electrical current with no energy loss—have been particularly puzzled by a mysterious phase that emerges as charge carriers are added that appears to compete with superconductivity.

9 May 2014

Researchers Measure Energy Needed to Change Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Cobalt Atom

Magnetic devices like hard drives, magnetic random access memories (MRAMs), molecular magnets, and quantum computers depend on the manipulation of magnetic properties. In an atom, magnetism arises from the spin and orbital momentum of its electrons.

9 May 2014

New Quantum Control Mechanism Selectively Breaks C-H Bonds in Symmetric Hydrocarbon Molecules

An international team of scientists discovered a new quantum control mechanism to selectively shake and break C-H bonds in symmetric hydrocarbon molecules with the waveform of femtosecond laser pulses

9 May 2014

Researchers Detect Circular Light from Recently Created Black Hole

The work, which has had the participation of the Ikerbasque researcher Javier Gorosabal, co-director of the Associated Unit with the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia/CSIC-UPV/EHU, has been published in the prestigious journal Nature.

8 May 2014

Cosmic Simulation Chamber Helps Recreate Formation of Planet-Forming Interstellar Dust

A team of scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., has successfully reproduced, right here on Earth, the processes that occur in the atmosphere of a red giant star and lead to the formation of planet-forming interstellar dust.

8 May 2014

Quantum Physics News

Clusters of Stars May Not Be Forming From Inside Out

DOE Awards Early Career Research Program Funding to Northwestern University Physicists

Alexander von Humboldt Professorships Conferred on JGU Fellows

Method Combining Quantum and Classical Physics Poses a Great Challenge in Modelling

Kavli Showcases Cosmic Research at Second Annual Public Open House

Solution Found to Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity

Researchers Measure Energy Needed to Change Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Cobalt Atom

New Quantum Control Mechanism Selectively Breaks C-H Bonds in Symmetric Hydrocarbon Molecules

Researchers Detect Circular Light from Recently Created Black Hole

Cosmic Simulation Chamber Helps Recreate Formation of Planet-Forming Interstellar Dust

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

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