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Researchers Observe Extreme Events in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Extreme events occur in many observable contexts. Nature is a prolific source: rogue water waves surging high above the swell, monsoon rains, wildfire, etc.

27 Oct 2020

A New Technique for Carrying Out Sensitive Quantum Operations on Atoms

Hitting a specific point on a screen with a laser pointer during a presentation isn't easy - even the tiniest nervous shaking of the hand becomes one big scrawl at a distance.

23 Oct 2020

Study Reveals the Mystery of Unusual Neutron Star System

An international group of researchers has detected a galactic mystery source of gamma rays after more than 20 decades. The newly identified gamma-ray source is a heavy neutron star that is being orbited by a very low mass companion.

23 Oct 2020

Study Finds Clumpy Halo of Hot Gases Around the Milky Way Galaxy

The Milky Way galaxy is in the process of recycling.

20 Oct 2020

Zeptoseconds: New Process for Measuring Shorter Time Spans

In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape.

19 Oct 2020

New Optical Framed Knots Could be Used to Encode Information

In a world first, researchers from the University of Ottawa in collaboration with Israeli scientists have been able to create optical framed knots in the laboratory that could potentially be applied in modern technologies.

19 Oct 2020

Study Shows Giant Red Star Betelgeuse is Smaller, Closer to Earth

A new study by an international group of researchers reports that until the giant red star Betelgeuse might take another 100,000 years to die with a fiery explosion.

19 Oct 2020

New Studies Will Help James Webb Space Telescope to Uncover Hidden Galaxies

At the University of Melbourne, two new studies have been performed and will help the most robust, largest, and complex space telescope ever created to unravel galaxies that mankind has never observed before.

16 Oct 2020

Physicists Successfully Transport Light Stored in a Quantum Memory

A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory over a distance of 1.2 millimeters.

14 Oct 2020