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Atom Interferometer with Picometer-Level Sensitivity May Detect Gravitational Waves in Space-Time

NASA technologists working to advance a pioneering technology that promises to detect tiny perturbations in the curvature of space-time now want to apply the same technique to map variations in Earth's gravity field.

8 Nov 2013

Physicists Successfully Determine Quantum Geometry of Crystals

Geometrical phases occur in many places in nature. One of the simplest examples is the Foucault pendulum: a tall pendulum free to swing in any vertical plane. Due to the earth rotation, the actual plane of swing rotates relative to the earth. One observes that every day the plane of rotation changes by a small “geometric” angle, associated to the spherical shape of the earth.

8 Nov 2013

Hunting for Cold Dark Matter Axions

Leslie Rosenberg and his colleagues are about to go hunting. Their quarry: A theorized-but-never-seen elementary particle called an axion.

8 Nov 2013

Nobel Prize Winner to Shed New Light on Schrödinger’s Cat at Dublin City University

Dublin City University and Magnet Broadband are delighted to confirm that Professor Serge Haroche will visit DCU as the latest Nobel Prize winner to speak in the highly popular Nobel Laureate Lecture Series. Professor Haroche, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2012, will offer the general public a unique insight into the strange world of Quantum Physics and how its applications can transform life as we know it, now and in the future. Professor Haroche’s lecture, Shedding New Light on Schrödinger’s Cat, will take place in DCU on Monday 11th November at 11:00am.

7 Nov 2013

New Forecast Report on Photonic IC & Quantum Computing Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 Report on the Photonic Integrated Circuit (IC) & Quantum Computing Market - with Forecast to 2022" report to their offering.

7 Nov 2013

Pulsar-Timing Arrays Reveal New Information about Frequency and Strength of Black Hole Mergers

Throughout our universe, tucked inside galaxies far, far away, giant black holes are pairing up and merging. As the massive bodies dance around each other in close embraces, they send out gravitational waves that ripple space and time themselves, even as the waves pass right through our planet Earth.

7 Nov 2013

Special Quantum Features Improve Signal Contrast of Compact Cold Rubidium Atom Atomic Clock

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a compact atomic clock design that relies on cold rubidium atoms instead of the usual hot atoms, a switch that promises improved precision and stability.

7 Nov 2013

UCSB Professor Wins Physics Frontiers Prize for the Second Time

UC Santa Barbara physics professor and permanent member of the university's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) Joseph Polchinski is one of several laureates for the Milner Foundation's 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize. According to the organization, this prize recognizes "transformative achievements in the field of fundamental physics and aim(s) to provide recipients with more freedom and opportunity to pursue future accomplishments." This is Polchinski's second win in two years.

7 Nov 2013

Lopsided Behavior of New Quantum Material Holds Promise for Novel Electronics

Scientists working at SLAC, Stanford, Oxford, Berkeley Lab and in Tokyo have discovered a new type of quantum material whose lopsided behavior may lend itself to creating novel electronics.

6 Nov 2013

Nine Teams Selected for NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute

NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for a new institute that will bring researchers together in a collaborative virtual setting to focus on questions concerning space science and human space exploration.

6 Nov 2013

Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Announces 2014 Winners of Physics Frontiers and New Horizons in Physics Prizes

The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation today announced the 2014 winners of the Physics Frontiers Prizes and New Horizons in Physics Prizes. The prizes recognize transformative achievements in the field of fundamental physics and aim to provide recipients with more freedom and opportunity to pursue future accomplishments.

6 Nov 2013

Eminent Scientists Discuss Latest Findings at Second Kepler Science Conference

Scientists from around the world are gathered this week at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the second Kepler Science Conference, where they will discuss the latest findings resulting from the analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data.

6 Nov 2013

Black Holes Detected in Globular Star Clusters

A Texas Tech University astrophysicist was part of a team of researchers that discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy, upsetting 40 years of theories against their possible existence.

6 Nov 2013

CFHT Confirms Funding for SPIRou to Detect Habitable Earth Twins

Funding for SPIRou, a spectropolarimeter and a high-precision velocimeter optimized for both the detection of habitable Earth twins orbiting around nearby red dwarf stars and the study of the formation of Sun-like stars and their planets, was confirmed today by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) observatory.

6 Nov 2013

Novel Superconducting Detector Array Measures Energy of Individual Photons

Semiconductors have had a nice run, but for certain applications, such as astrophysics, they are being edged out by superconductors. Ben Mazin, assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara, has developed a superconducting detector array that measures the energy of individual photons. The design and construction of an instrument based on these arrays, as well as an analysis of its commissioning data, appear in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

5 Nov 2013

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Atom Interferometer with Picometer-Level Sensitivity May Detect Gravitational Waves in Space-Time

Physicists Successfully Determine Quantum Geometry of Crystals

Hunting for Cold Dark Matter Axions

Nobel Prize Winner to Shed New Light on Schrödinger’s Cat at Dublin City University

New Forecast Report on Photonic IC & Quantum Computing Market

Pulsar-Timing Arrays Reveal New Information about Frequency and Strength of Black Hole Mergers

Special Quantum Features Improve Signal Contrast of Compact Cold Rubidium Atom Atomic Clock

UCSB Professor Wins Physics Frontiers Prize for the Second Time

Lopsided Behavior of New Quantum Material Holds Promise for Novel Electronics

Nine Teams Selected for NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute

Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Announces 2014 Winners of Physics Frontiers and New Horizons in Physics Prizes

Eminent Scientists Discuss Latest Findings at Second Kepler Science Conference

Black Holes Detected in Globular Star Clusters

CFHT Confirms Funding for SPIRou to Detect Habitable Earth Twins

Novel Superconducting Detector Array Measures Energy of Individual Photons

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