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NIST Researchers Report Blinking in a Particular Quantum Dot Species

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, have found that a particular species of quantum dots that weren't commonly thought to blink, do.

26 May 2014

Researchers Study the Demagnetization Dynamics of a Three-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Fermi gases in the so-called unitary regime—where the diverging interactions between atoms make their thermodynamics universal—are an excellent test bed for an array of strongly interacting matter systems. Two places to find a unitary Fermi gas are in the crust of a neutron start, and in basement of McLennan.

26 May 2014

Researchers Test Universality of Free Fall by Measuring Acceleration of Two Different Atomic Species

Two major theories exist in modern physics: general relativity, the principle which governs our current understanding of gravity, and quantum mechanics, which explains the nature of extremely tiny objects such as electrons.

23 May 2014

Dark, Dense and Dusty Cosmic Clumps Throw Deepest Shadows

Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. Infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of these blackest-of-black regions paradoxically light the way to understanding how the brightest stars form.

23 May 2014

First Direct Confirmation of Wolf-Rayet Star’s Death in a Type IIb Supernova

Our Sun may seem pretty impressive: 330,000 times as massive as Earth, it accounts for 99.86 percent of the Solar System's total mass; it generates about 400 trillion trillion watts of power per second; and it has a surface temperature of about 10,000 degrees Celsius. Yet for a star, it's a lightweight.

23 May 2014

Wolf-Rayet Star may be Likely Progenitor of Recently Exploded Supernova

Wolf-Rayet stars are very large and very hot. Astronomers have long wondered whether Wolf-Rayet stars are the progenitors of certain types of supernovae. New work from the Palomar Transient Factory team, including Carnegie’s Mansi Kasliwal, is homing in on the answer. They have identified a Wolf-Rayet star as the likely progenitor of a recently exploded supernova. This work is published by Nature.

23 May 2014

New WISE Results do not Corroborate Black Hole 'Doughnut' Theory

A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

23 May 2014

NGC 3590 Stellar Gathering Gives Clues about How Stars Form and Evolve

NGC 3590 is a small open cluster of stars around 7500 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Carina (The Keel). It is a gathering of dozens of stars loosely bound together by gravity and is roughly 35 million years old.

22 May 2014

Novel Optical Synthesizer Increases Intensity of Attosecond Light Flashes

They shed light on atomic and molecular processes: ultrashort laser pulses are required to study extremely fast quantum phenomena.

22 May 2014

Carnegie-led Team Confirms Presence of Unusually Distant Galaxy Cluster

The structures and star populations of massive galaxies appear to change as they age, but much about how these galaxies formed and evolved remains mysterious.

22 May 2014

Exploded Star Had Nitrogen-Rich Wind

When a supernova – the explosion of a distant star —was discovered last year, astrophysicists, with the help of telescopes around the globe, rushed to observe the fireworks.

22 May 2014

Quantum Materials Provides Update on Acquisition of Intermediate Quantum Dot Production Equipment

Quantum Materials Corp. provided an update on its acquisition of the intermediate quantum dot production equipment that was initiated earlier this year.

22 May 2014

QD Vision to Present Symposium Sessions on Quantum Dot Technology at SID Display Week

Today, QD Vision, Inc., the leading manufacturer of quantum dot optical components for LCD products, announced that co-founders Seth Coe-Sullivan and Jonathan Steckel will be presenting two symposium sessions on quantum dot technology as part of the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week, June 1-6, 2014 in San Diego, California.

21 May 2014

Global Symmetry Not Required for Sped up Search by Quantum Particles

A quantum particle can search for an item in an unsorted "database" by jumping from one item to another in superposition, and it does so faster than a classical computer ever could.

21 May 2014

SWARM Mission to Track and Measure Earth’s Magnetic Forces

Thanks to a constellation of three satellites, ESA’s SWARM mission will track and measure the planet’s magnetic forces from its core to its upper atmosphere. Five months after the launch, the satellites are beginning to gather data.

21 May 2014

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NIST Researchers Report Blinking in a Particular Quantum Dot Species

Researchers Study the Demagnetization Dynamics of a Three-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Researchers Test Universality of Free Fall by Measuring Acceleration of Two Different Atomic Species

Dark, Dense and Dusty Cosmic Clumps Throw Deepest Shadows

First Direct Confirmation of Wolf-Rayet Star’s Death in a Type IIb Supernova

Wolf-Rayet Star may be Likely Progenitor of Recently Exploded Supernova

New WISE Results do not Corroborate Black Hole 'Doughnut' Theory

NGC 3590 Stellar Gathering Gives Clues about How Stars Form and Evolve

Novel Optical Synthesizer Increases Intensity of Attosecond Light Flashes

Carnegie-led Team Confirms Presence of Unusually Distant Galaxy Cluster

Exploded Star Had Nitrogen-Rich Wind

Quantum Materials Provides Update on Acquisition of Intermediate Quantum Dot Production Equipment

QD Vision to Present Symposium Sessions on Quantum Dot Technology at SID Display Week

Global Symmetry Not Required for Sped up Search by Quantum Particles

SWARM Mission to Track and Measure Earth’s Magnetic Forces

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