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Observation Provides Key Information About Chinese Guest Star of 1181 AD

An international team of astronomers has solved a 900-year-old question regarding the origin of a famous supernova first spotted in China around 1181AD.

16 Sep 2021

New Inter-American Research Program to Promote Nuclear Science Research

The building blocks of all visible matter in the universe are gluons and quarks. They are explained by the theory of strong nuclear interactions—quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

15 Sep 2021

PPPL-Led Scientists to Develop a New Quantum Sensor

The novel design for a next-generation diamond sensor with capabilities that range from producing magnetic resonance imaging of single molecules to detecting slight anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field to guide aircraft that lack access to global positioning systems will be developed by a collaboration of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

15 Sep 2021

Physicists Develop a Simple Approach for Generating Terahertz Radiation

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Freie Universität Berlin have developed a new, simple approach for generating terahertz radiation. Strong optical laser pulses enable terahertz electromagnetic fields to be generated directly at a specific point.

15 Sep 2021

Generating Chiral Valley-Polarized Light Could be the Future of Quantum Information Processing

Scientists have generated circularly polarized light and controlled its direction without using clunky magnets or very low temperatures.

15 Sep 2021

New Efforts to Detect Gravitational Waves from Supermassive Blackholes

Supermassive black holes weighing million to billion times more than the Sun can be found in all galaxies. During the collision of galaxies, pairs of supermassive black holes found at their centers also end up on the collision course.

14 Sep 2021

New Method Could Pave the Way for Faster, Energy-Efficient Quantum Electronics

DTU and Graphene Flagship researchers have taken the art of patterning nanomaterials to the next level.

14 Sep 2021

Researchers Uncover Important New Information on Possible ‘Fifth Force’

A group of researchers have used a groundbreaking new technique to reveal previously unrecognized properties of technologically crucial silicon crystals and uncovered new information about an important subatomic particle and a long-theorized fifth force of nature.

13 Sep 2021

$25 Million Science and Technology Center Grant for Developing Optoelectronic, Quantum Technologies

The National Science Foundation has announced it will fund a new endeavor to bring atomic-level precision to the devices and technologies that underpin much of modern life, and will transform fields like information technology in the decades to come.

13 Sep 2021

UTSA Researcher Helps Set a World Record for Innovation in Quantum Computing

A University of Texas at San Antonio researcher is part of a collaboration that has set a world record for innovation in quantum computing.

13 Sep 2021

Black Holes Exert Pressure on Their Environment, Study Finds

At the University of Sussex, physicists have found, in a scientific first, that black holes exert pressure on their environment.

13 Sep 2021

Scientists Use Neuron Beam to Discover More About Fifth Forces of Physics

An international team of researchers used a neutron beam to conduct pendellösung interferometry on silicon, offering both measurements of maximum accuracy with this method to date and a snapshot of the characteristics of both the silicon crystals and the neuron itself.

13 Sep 2021