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New High-Flux, Compact Cold-Atom Source can be a Key Component of Quantum Technologies

Although quantum technology has proven valuable for highly precise timekeeping, making these technologies practical for use in a variety of environments is still a key challenge

22 Jun 2021

Study Shows How Cosmic Rays Affect the Formation of Stars in Galaxies

Young massive stars located in galaxies control the triggering of star formation as well as its quenching. These massive stars inject momentum and energy into the interstellar medium.

21 Jun 2021

New Superfast Molecular Motor Could be Used to Power Drug Delivery

Light-driven molecular motors have been in existence for more than two decades, and they usually take a microsecond to nanoseconds for a single revolution.

18 Jun 2021

New Research Confirms the Lack of Dark Matter in Galaxies

The most precise distance measurement yet of NGC1052-DF2 — the ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) — has clearly confirmed that it lacks dark matter.

18 Jun 2021

Researchers Create Giant Vortices to Address Complex Physical Phenomena

Scientists from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their collaborators from the United Kingdom, were able to produce a stable, giant vortex in interacting polariton condensates, successfully tackling a familiar challenge in quantized fluid dynamics.

17 Jun 2021

Spin of the Milky Way’s Galactic Bar is Slowing Down

According to a new study performed by researchers from the University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford, the spin of the galactic bar in the Milky Way galaxy has slowed down by around a quarter since it first formed.

15 Jun 2021

New Method can Optimize the Design of Ion-Trap-Based Quantum Computers

Quantum technologies are based on quantum properties of light, electrons, and atoms. In recent decades, scientists have learned to master these phenomena and exploit them in applications.

15 Jun 2021

Researchers Detect New Class of “Blinking Giant” Stars in the Milky Way

A global team of astronomers has found that a star, called VVV-WIT-08, was decreasing in brightness by a factor of 30 so that it almost vanished from the sky.

14 Jun 2021

Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Coherence Using Photons Scattered in Free-Space

Quantum coherence is a key ingredient in many fundamental tests and applications of quantum technology including quantum communication, imaging, computing, sensing and metrology.

11 Jun 2021

Central Black Holes Play a Key Role in Regulating the Evolution of Galaxies

At the center of nearly every sufficiently giant galaxy, there is a black hole whose highly intense gravitational field impacts just a small region around the core of the galaxy.

10 Jun 2021