Quantum Science News

RSS

Scientists Believe that Jupiter’s Moon Europa Could Sustain Life

In a finding of relevance to the search for life in our solar system, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have shown that the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have deep currents and circulation patterns with heat and energy transfers capable of sustaining biological life.

5 Dec 2013

Collision of Two Protons Yields Higgs Boson that Decays to Tau Leptons

At a CERN seminar November 26th, Aliaksandr (Sasha) Pranko of the Physics Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) presented key direct evidence that the “Higgs-like” particle discovered at CERN last year does what a Higgs is supposed to do: it couples not only to other bosons but to fermions as well. Pranko is a member of Berkeley Lab’s contingent of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider.

5 Dec 2013

NASA’s Twin Spacecraft Unravel Mysteries of Earth's Radiation Belts

Just over a year since launch, NASA's Van Allen Probes mission continues to unravel longstanding mysteries of Earth's high-energy radiation belts that encircle our planet and pose hazards to orbiting satellites and astronauts.

5 Dec 2013

Astronomers Glimpse Magnetic Fields at the Heart of Gamma-ray Bursts

A new study using observations from a novel instrument provides the best look to date at magnetic fields at the heart of gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the universe. An international team of astronomers from Britain, Slovenia and Italy has glimpsed the infrastructure of a burst's high-speed jet.

5 Dec 2013

Research Reveals Key Details on Electron Ejection

In principle, the strange features of quantum mechanics can be accessed using single electrons as carriers of quantum information. However, while electrons can be captured in solid-state electrostatic traps, it is difficult to control them or to discover what happens to them once they are released.

5 Dec 2013

UT Dallas to Host Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

Sitting around a Dallas swimming pool in the summer of 1963, a handful of Texas scientists hatched a plan to hold a scientific conference that would highlight new research in the combined fields of relativity and astrophysics.

5 Dec 2013

Supernova Remnants Reveal Age of X-ray Binary System

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed faint remnants of a supernova explosion and helped researchers determine Circinus X-1 -- an X-ray binary -- is the youngest of this class of astronomical objects found to date.

5 Dec 2013

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Heads Toward Dwarf Planet Ceres

It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance card.

5 Dec 2013

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Captures High-resolution Images of Saturn’s Hexagonal Jet Stream

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole.

5 Dec 2013

Young Star in the Milky Way Galaxy has an Explosive Growth

A star is formed when a large cloud of gas and dust condenses and eventually becomes so dense that it collapses into a ball of gas, where the pressure heats the matter, creating a glowing gas ball – a star is born. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, shows that a young, newly formed star in the Milky Way had such an explosive growth, that it was initially about 100 times brighter than it is now. The results are published in the scientific journal, Astrophysical Journal Letters.

4 Dec 2013

Two Supermassive Black Holes Dance in a Gravitationally Entwined Tango

Astronomers have spotted what appear to be two supermassive black holes at the heart of a remote galaxy, circling each other like dance partners. The incredibly rare sighting was made with the help of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

4 Dec 2013

Quantum Entanglement May be Spookier than Einstein Perceived

Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance," could be even spookier than Einstein perceived.

4 Dec 2013

Researchers Confirm Evidence of 28 Events Involving High-Energy Neutrinos From Outside the Galaxy

After years of self-motivated particle and astrophysical research with IceCube, a neutrino-detecting telescope sealed in the ice of Antartica, researchers recently conﬁrmed evidence of 28 events involving high-energy neutrinos from outside the galaxy.

4 Dec 2013

Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Aluminum Stronger When in the Form of Nanomatryushkas

Humble aluminum’s plasmonic properties may make it far more valuable than gold and silver for certain applications, according to new research by Rice University scientists.

4 Dec 2013

Photon Pairs Produced Through Four-Wave Mixing in Cold Atomic Vapour

Quantum technologies for communication and computation can play on the strengths of different systems: photons are good for zipping information around, atoms are good for storage. CQT researchers have demonstrated a technique for producing entangled photon pairs that promises to help interface the two.

3 Dec 2013

Quantum Science News

Scientists Believe that Jupiter’s Moon Europa Could Sustain Life

Collision of Two Protons Yields Higgs Boson that Decays to Tau Leptons

NASA’s Twin Spacecraft Unravel Mysteries of Earth's Radiation Belts

Astronomers Glimpse Magnetic Fields at the Heart of Gamma-ray Bursts

Research Reveals Key Details on Electron Ejection

UT Dallas to Host Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

Supernova Remnants Reveal Age of X-ray Binary System

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Heads Toward Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Captures High-resolution Images of Saturn’s Hexagonal Jet Stream

Young Star in the Milky Way Galaxy has an Explosive Growth

Two Supermassive Black Holes Dance in a Gravitationally Entwined Tango

Quantum Entanglement May be Spookier than Einstein Perceived

Researchers Confirm Evidence of 28 Events Involving High-Energy Neutrinos From Outside the Galaxy

Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Aluminum Stronger When in the Form of Nanomatryushkas

Photon Pairs Produced Through Four-Wave Mixing in Cold Atomic Vapour

News Categories

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

SideKick QCL Controller: Low-Noise Laser Control Solution

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

Sponsored Content

Enhancing High-Speed MIR Detection Using Quantum Cascade Detectors

Perovskite Quantum Dots: Transforming the Landscape of Optoelectronics

Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Quantum Science News

News Categories

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

1New Theory of Dark Matter Formation

2A Quantum Leap: A New Era of Light-Matter Interaction

3Quantum Computing Revolutionizes Stock Prediction

4Quantum Circuits Enhance Blood Flow Predictions

Sponsored Content