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New Discovery Could Power Quantum Information, Cryptography, Energy Harvesting

A research group from Los Alamos National Laboratory has suggested that modulated quantum metasurfaces have the ability to regulate all properties of photonic qubits, a discovery that could influence the fields of quantum information, sensing, and imaging, communications, as well as momentum and energy harvesting.

22 Jul 2021

New Astronomical Telescope Could Offer High-Resolution Images of the Universe

A new type of astronomical telescope has been developed by Durham, Toronto, and Princeton Universities in collaboration with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.

21 Jul 2021

Study Illustrates Formation of Negatively Charged Molecules in Space

Interstellar clouds are places where new stars are born, but they also have a vital role in the origins of life in the Universe via regions of dust and gas in which chemical compounds are developed.

21 Jul 2021

Study: Life on Planets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars Certainly Evolved After the Star’s Death

Any life identified on planets orbiting white dwarf stars almost certainly evolved after the star's death, says a new study led by the University of Warwick that reveals the consequences of the intense and furious stellar winds that will batter a planet as its star is dying.

21 Jul 2021

Solar Physicists Report Discovery of Long-Period Oscillations of the Sun

These motions were measured by analyzing 10 years of observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

21 Jul 2021

Researchers Identify the Origin of Bifurcated Current Sheets

A Korean research team has identified the origin of bifurcated current sheets, considered one of the most unsolved mysteries in the Earth's magnetosphere and in magnetized plasma physics.

21 Jul 2021

Ultrathin Magnet Offers an Optimal Platform for Probing the Quantum World

The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature could lead to new applications in computing and electronics - such as high-density, compact spintronic memory devices - and new tools for the study of quantum physics.

21 Jul 2021

Enormous Black Holes Responsible for Hampering the Birth of New Stars

According to astronomers, black holes with masses that of nearly millions of suns hamper the origin of new stars.

20 Jul 2021

Study Offers Observational Evidence of Origin of Nitrogen-Rich Field Stars

Nitrogen is a gas that mostly appears colorless or odorless and constitutes 78% of the Earth’s current atmosphere. But nitrogen is produced in stars shining throughout the Universe, similar to most of the elements heavier than helium.

20 Jul 2021

Neutron Star Mountains are Millimeters Tall, Scientists Say

New research indicates that if neutron stars have mountains, they are fractions of a millimeter in height.

By Robert Lea 20 Jul 2021

Research Lays the Foundation for Building Room-Temperature Solid-State Quantum Devices

Prof. LI Chuanfeng, Prof. XU Jinshi and their colleagues from Prof. GUO Guangcan's group, University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, realized the high-contrast readout and coherent manipulation of a single silicon carbide divacancy color center electron spin at room temperature for the first time in the world, in cooperation with Prof. Adam Gali, from the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary.

20 Jul 2021

Supernovae Explosions Could Pack a Bigger Punch with the Help of Cosmic Rays

The final stage of cataclysmic explosions of dying massive stars, called supernovae, could pack an up to six times bigger punch on the surrounding interstellar gas with the help of cosmic rays, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford.

20 Jul 2021

EHT Captures the Heart of the Nearby Radio Galaxy in Unprecedented Detail

An international team anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy Messier 87, has now imaged the heart of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A in unprecedented detail.

20 Jul 2021