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Novel Device Leaves Photon Untouched Upon Detection

Light is of fundamental importance. It allows us to see the world around us and record pictures of our environment. It enables communication over long distances through optical fibers. All current methods of detecting light share a common property: absorption and thus destruction of a photon. It has been a long-standing dream to be able to watch individual photons fly by without absorbing them.

18 Nov 2013

Physicists Overcome Key Barrier to Building Practical Quantum Computers

An international team of physicists led by SFU professor Mike Thewalt has overcome a key barrier to building practical quantum computers, taking a significant step to bringing them into the mainstream.

18 Nov 2013

Perimeter Institute and Krembil Foundation Establish Prestigious Research Chairs

Perimeter Institute has established, thanks to a visionary investment in partnership with the Krembil Foundation, prestigious research chairs for two of the world's top theoretical physicists.

18 Nov 2013

Common Mechanisms of Iron Compounds May Help Find Better Superconductors

The decadeslong effort to create practical superconductors moved a step forward with the discovery at Rice University that two distinctly different iron-based compounds share common mechanisms for moving electrons.

16 Nov 2013

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Amazing Image of Messier 15 Globular Cluster

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very old stars that orbits the centre of the Milky Way. This glittering cluster contains over 100 000 stars, and could also hide a rare type of black hole at its centre.

16 Nov 2013

More-Distant Galaxy, With Strong Radio Emission Found Behind UGC 10288

Astronomers studying gas halos around nearby galaxies were surprised when detailed studies with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) showed that one of their subjects is not a single galaxy, but rather two, nearly perfectly superimposed on the sky to masquerade as one. The discovery allowed them to use the alignment to learn otherwise-unobtainable facts about the nearer galaxy.

16 Nov 2013

NASA's WISE Mission Releases New, Improved Galaxy Atlas

NASA's WISE mission has released a new and improved atlas and catalog brimming with data on three-quarters of a billion objects detected during two full scans of the sky.

16 Nov 2013

Waterloo Quantum Physicists Named Canada Research Chairs

Two scientists from the University of Waterloo have been named Canada Research Chairs by the Government of Canada for their work in quantum physics.

16 Nov 2013

Hubble Space Telescope Provides Direct Images of Milky Way's Formative Years

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the first visual evidence of how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, assembled itself into the majestic pinwheel of stars we see today.

15 Nov 2013

Masquerading Galaxies Revealed

What might look like a colossal jet shooting away from a galaxy turns out to be an illusion. New data from the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) reveal that two galaxies, one lying behind the other, have been masquerading as one.

15 Nov 2013

‘Photon-Mediated Interaction’ Demonstrated Between Artificial Atoms Confined to 1-D Quantum System

An international team of scientists has shown for the first time that atoms can work collectively rather than independently of each other to share light.

15 Nov 2013

Normally Fragile Quantum State Survives at Room Temperature for Record Time

A normally fragile quantum state has been shown to survive at room temperature for a world record 39 minutes, overcoming a key barrier towards building ultrafast quantum computers.

15 Nov 2013

New Devices Utilize Phononic Properties to Control Sound and Heat

Imagine living on a bustling city block, but free from the noise of car horns and people on the street. The emerging field of phononics could one day make this a reality.

15 Nov 2013

Squeezed States Optimal for Using Quantum Properties to Improve Measurement Precision

Extremely precise measurements of distances are key in all techniques used to detect gravitational waves. To increase this precision, physicists have started using quantum effects linked with photons. A paper published in "Physical Review A" by Polish and German physicists shows that it is not necessary to use quantum light states more refined than the squeezed coherent states available currently.

14 Nov 2013

Controlled Molecule Samples for Matter-Wave Experiments Can Help Investigate Limits of Quantum-Mechanical Wave Properties

For his work on the control of complex molecules, Professor Jochen Küpper from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL, DESY and the University of Hamburg) is granted two million euros by the European Research Council (ERC). The council supports Küpper’s project "Controlling the Motion of Complex Molecules and Particles" (COMOTION) through an ERC Consolidator Grant for five years starting in early 2014.

14 Nov 2013

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Novel Device Leaves Photon Untouched Upon Detection

Physicists Overcome Key Barrier to Building Practical Quantum Computers

Perimeter Institute and Krembil Foundation Establish Prestigious Research Chairs

Common Mechanisms of Iron Compounds May Help Find Better Superconductors

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Amazing Image of Messier 15 Globular Cluster

More-Distant Galaxy, With Strong Radio Emission Found Behind UGC 10288

NASA's WISE Mission Releases New, Improved Galaxy Atlas

Waterloo Quantum Physicists Named Canada Research Chairs

Hubble Space Telescope Provides Direct Images of Milky Way's Formative Years

Masquerading Galaxies Revealed

‘Photon-Mediated Interaction’ Demonstrated Between Artificial Atoms Confined to 1-D Quantum System

Normally Fragile Quantum State Survives at Room Temperature for Record Time

New Devices Utilize Phononic Properties to Control Sound and Heat

Squeezed States Optimal for Using Quantum Properties to Improve Measurement Precision

Controlled Molecule Samples for Matter-Wave Experiments Can Help Investigate Limits of Quantum-Mechanical Wave Properties

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