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Discovery of Three Closely Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes Could Help in Search for Gravitational Waves

The discovery of three closely orbiting supermassive black holes in a galaxy more than four billion light years away could help astronomers in the search for gravitational waves: the 'ripples in spacetime' predicted by Einstein.

26 Jun 2014

Gravity Research Foundation Honors UC Blue Ash Professor for Essay on Gravitational Theory

A professor at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College is being honored for his work in gravitation with an international award.

26 Jun 2014

Skyrmions Observed Using X-rays

Skyrmions, subatomic quasiparticles that could play a key role in future spintronic technologies, have been observed for the first time using x-rays. An international collaboration of researchers working at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) observed skyrmions in copper selenite (Cu2SeO3) an insulator with multiferroic properties.

26 Jun 2014

Magnetic Nanohose May Help Solve Technological Problems in Quantum Computing

The magnetic hose designed by the researchers consists of a ferromagnetic cylinder covered by a superconductor material, a surprisingly simple design given the complicated theoretical calculations and numerous lab tests it had to undergo.

26 Jun 2014

New Tool to Calculate Fundamental Property of Atoms to Historic Accuracy

By combining advanced mathematics with high-performance computing, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Indiana University (IU) have developed a tool that allowed them to calculate a fundamental property of most atoms on the periodic table to historic accuracy—reducing error by a factor of a thousand in many cases.

26 Jun 2014

Computer Model Visualizes Interaction Between Solar Wind, Solar Radiation, and Asteroids

Space may appear empty -- a soundless vacuum, but it's not an absolute void. It flows with electric activity that is not visible to our eyes. NASA is developing plans to send humans to an asteroid, and wants to know more about the electrical environment explorers will encounter there.

26 Jun 2014

Supercomputer Simulations Show Evolution of Our Universe from the Big Bang

The hunt for dark matter has taken another step forward thanks to new supercomputer simulations showing the evolution of our "local Universe" from the Big Bang to the present day.

26 Jun 2014

MicroBooNE Detector Placed in the Path of Fermilab’s Beam of Neutrinos

On Monday, June 23, the next phase of neutrino physics at Fermilab fell (gently) into place.

25 Jun 2014

Chandra and XMM-Newton Identify Mysterious X-ray Signal

A mysterious X-ray signal has been found in a detailed study of galaxy clusters using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton. One intriguing possibility is that the X-rays are produced by the decay of sterile neutrinos, a type of particle that has been proposed as a candidate for dark matter.

25 Jun 2014

Fundamental Check to Establish Standard Model Higgs Boson

If evidence of the Higgs boson revealed two years ago was the smoking gun, particle physicists at Rice University and their colleagues have now found a few of the bullets.

24 Jun 2014

Physicists Test Saarbrücken Adaptive Hybrid Optimal Control Methodology for Quantum Computing

Press the start button, switch on the monitor, grab a cup of coffee and off you go. That is pretty much how most us experience booting up a computer. But with a quantum computer the situation is very different.

24 Jun 2014

Study Confronts Different Views Concerning Quantum Properties of D-Wave Computer

The D-Wave computer is currently the latest link of a long chain of computers designed for the solution of optimization problems. In what sense does it realize quantum computation? We describe the evolution of such computers and confront the different views concerning the quantum properties of the D-wave computer.

24 Jun 2014

Large Hadron Collider Begins Preparations for Second Three-Year Run

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, has started to get ready for its second three-year run. Cool down of the vast machine has already begun in preparation for research to resume early in 2015 following a long technical stop to prepare the machine for running at almost double the energy of run 1.

24 Jun 2014

New Standardized Stellar Scale to Measure Stars

Previously, as with the longitude problem 300 years earlier for fixing locations on Earth, there was no unified system of reference for calibrating the heavens.

24 Jun 2014

New Light on Superconductivity in Transition Metal Binary Alloys

Physicists from India have shed new light on a long-unanswered question related to superconductivity in so-called transition metal binary alloys. The team revealed that the local magnetic fluctuations, or spin fluctuations, an intrinsic property of Titanium-Vanadium (Ti-V) alloys, influence superconductivity in a way that is more widespread than previously thought.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 24 Jun 2014

Quantum Science News

Discovery of Three Closely Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes Could Help in Search for Gravitational Waves

Gravity Research Foundation Honors UC Blue Ash Professor for Essay on Gravitational Theory

Skyrmions Observed Using X-rays

Magnetic Nanohose May Help Solve Technological Problems in Quantum Computing

New Tool to Calculate Fundamental Property of Atoms to Historic Accuracy

Computer Model Visualizes Interaction Between Solar Wind, Solar Radiation, and Asteroids

Supercomputer Simulations Show Evolution of Our Universe from the Big Bang

MicroBooNE Detector Placed in the Path of Fermilab’s Beam of Neutrinos

Chandra and XMM-Newton Identify Mysterious X-ray Signal

Fundamental Check to Establish Standard Model Higgs Boson

Physicists Test Saarbrücken Adaptive Hybrid Optimal Control Methodology for Quantum Computing

Study Confronts Different Views Concerning Quantum Properties of D-Wave Computer

Large Hadron Collider Begins Preparations for Second Three-Year Run

New Standardized Stellar Scale to Measure Stars

New Light on Superconductivity in Transition Metal Binary Alloys

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