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New Research Brings Secure Internet a Step Closer Using Quantum Communication

An international team of scientists have made a major breakthrough in the quest to create a viable quantum communication network. The discovery moves researchers a step closer towards an ultra-secure future network of interconnected super-fast quantum computers.

29 Nov 2019

Study Finds Origin of Radiation Emitted from Black Holes and Neutron Stars

For several years, researchers have contemplated about the source of the electromagnetic radiation discharged from celestial regions that host neutron stars and black holes—the most enigmatic objects in the universe.

28 Nov 2019

Crucial Step Toward Detecting Signal from the Period After Cosmic Dark Age

Nearly 12 billion years ago, the universe evolved from a great cosmic dark age, with the lighting up of the first stars and galaxies.

27 Nov 2019

New Image Reveals Large-Scale, Coherent Magnetic Fields in the Halo of a Spiral Galaxy

The National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) has made an image of the “Whale Galaxy” (NGC 4631), which exposes hair-like filaments of the galaxy’s magnetic field extending above and below the disk of the galaxy.

27 Nov 2019

Researchers Identify New Method to Efficiently Use Spin-Driven Components

For many years, electronic device developers have been trying to make faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient devices.

25 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

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