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Researchers Develop Novel Switch to Help Scientists Build Quantum Information Transmitter Networks

Using a laser to place individual rubidium atoms near the surface of a lattice of light, scientists at MIT and Harvard University have developed a new method for connecting particles — one that could help in the development of powerful quantum computing systems.

10 Apr 2014

Cornell Scientists Develop Groundbreaking New Synchrotron X-Ray Technology- the Energy Recovery Linac

For more than a decade, Cornell scientists have been developing a groundbreaking new synchrotron X-ray technology called the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL). A new X-ray laser on the West Coast is taking advantage of their developments.

10 Apr 2014

Annual Conference Discusses Latest Progress in Quest to Identify Dark Matter

In late February, dark matter hunters from around the world gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles for “Dark Matter 2014.” The annual conference is one of the largest of its kind aimed at discussing the latest progress in the quest to identify dark matter, the unknown stuff that makes up more than a quarter of the universe yet remains a mystery.

9 Apr 2014

Lithwick Receives NSF CAREER Award for ‘Planet Formation in the Age of Kepler’ Research Proposal

Yoram Lithwick, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

9 Apr 2014

Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory May Help Create 'Normally Off' Computer

If a research team in Japan gets its wish, "normally off" computers may one day soon be replacing present computers in a move that would both eliminate volatile memory, which requires power to maintain stored data, and reduce the gigantic energy losses associated with it.

9 Apr 2014

Major Neutrino Events Translated into Visual 3-D

Located deep within the ice at the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory watches for traces of the mysterious neutrino, a subatomic messenger from the cosmos that lends a greater understanding of far away events in the universe.

9 Apr 2014

Simulations Reveal How Large Galaxies Alter Chemistry of Dwarf Galaxies

A team of EPFL scientists have revealed how larger galaxies alter the chemistry and dynamical history of these small galaxies in an upcoming article in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

8 Apr 2014

Precise Measures of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Made With 150,000 Quasars

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III), pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic gas at high redshifts, tracing the structure of the young universe. BOSS charts the history of the universe's expansion in order to illuminate the nature of dark energy, and new measures of large-scale structure have yielded the most precise measurement of expansion since galaxies first formed.

8 Apr 2014

Waveguides Coupled with Surface Plasmons Hold Promise for Quantum Computing

For years, researchers have been interested in developing quantum computers—the theoretical next generation of technology that will outperform conventional computers. Instead of holding data in bits, the digital units used by computers today, quantum computers store information in units called "qubits." One approach for computing with qubits relies on the creation of two single photons that interfere with one another in a device called a waveguide.

7 Apr 2014

Report Assesses Opportunities for Quantum Dots in Lighting and Displays Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Market Opportunities for Quantum Dots in Lighting and Displays" report to their offering.

7 Apr 2014

Extraordinarily Versatile Atom Smasher Reproduces Primordial Soup

Ever wonder how the hot soup of subatomic particles that filled the early universe transformed into the ordinary matter of today’s world? Nuclear physicists exploring this question can’t exactly travel back 13.8 billion years to watch what really happened, but they can recreate matter at the extreme temperatures and densities that existed just after the Big Bang by smashing together ordinary atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

7 Apr 2014

Researchers Observe Quantum Phase Transition

When ice is warmed, the water molecules forming its structure vibrate more and more vigorously until finally the forces between them are no longer strong enough to hold them together – the ice melts and turns into liquid water. Quantum physics predicts that similar phenomena can be observed if the quantum mechanical fluctuations of the particles in a material can be altered.

7 Apr 2014

Spitzer and Herschel Study of Protoplanetary Disk Receives Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award

Two graduate students in the Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysical sciences and technology program were recognized with Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards for their outstanding research posters at the 223rd American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., in January.

7 Apr 2014

‘Conscious Observer’ Invoked to Account for Quantum State Reduction

The nature of consciousness, the reality it conveys and our place in the universe remain unknown. Since ancient times, two types of views have approached these questions. In Western science and philosophy, consciousness is strictly a by-product of brain activity, the reality it perceives not to be trusted (‘Plato’s cave’, Descartes’ ‘brain-in-a-vat’, Dennett’s ‘multiple drafts’). On the other hand, in Eastern philosophy, consciousness is primary, the fundamental basis for reality.

7 Apr 2014

Ontario Government Honors Perimeter Institute Researchers with Early Researcher Awards

Perimeter Institute hosted the Honourable John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre, as he named 20 local recipients of Ontario’s Early Researcher Awards (ERAs), which support highly promising early-career faculty with $140,000 grants. The program’s goal is to improve Ontario’s ability to attract and retain the best and brightest research talent from around the world.

From Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 7 Apr 2014

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Researchers Develop Novel Switch to Help Scientists Build Quantum Information Transmitter Networks

Cornell Scientists Develop Groundbreaking New Synchrotron X-Ray Technology- the Energy Recovery Linac

Annual Conference Discusses Latest Progress in Quest to Identify Dark Matter

Lithwick Receives NSF CAREER Award for ‘Planet Formation in the Age of Kepler’ Research Proposal

Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory May Help Create 'Normally Off' Computer

Major Neutrino Events Translated into Visual 3-D

Simulations Reveal How Large Galaxies Alter Chemistry of Dwarf Galaxies

Precise Measures of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Made With 150,000 Quasars

Waveguides Coupled with Surface Plasmons Hold Promise for Quantum Computing

Report Assesses Opportunities for Quantum Dots in Lighting and Displays Market

Extraordinarily Versatile Atom Smasher Reproduces Primordial Soup

Researchers Observe Quantum Phase Transition

Spitzer and Herschel Study of Protoplanetary Disk Receives Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award

‘Conscious Observer’ Invoked to Account for Quantum State Reduction

Ontario Government Honors Perimeter Institute Researchers with Early Researcher Awards

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