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SSRL Scientist Sean Brennan Receives Annual Synchrotron Award

Sean Brennan's decades of X-ray expertise keep pulling him back to SLAC even though he formally retired in 2008. During a recent visit to the lab, he accepted the Farrel W. Lytle Award for his extensive contributions to SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

23 Oct 2013

D-Wave Transfers Process Technology for Building Quantum Computing Microprocessors to Cypress Foundry

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that D-Wave has successfully transferred its proprietary process technology for building quantum computing microprocessors to Cypress’s Wafer Foundry located in Bloomington, Minnesota.

23 Oct 2013

Detection of B-Modes Leads to Better Maps of Matter Across Universe

The journey of light from the very early universe to modern telescopes is long and winding. The ancient light traveled billions of years to reach us, and along the way, its path was distorted by the pull of matter, leading to a twisted light pattern.

22 Oct 2013

IBM and SLAC Scientists Precisely Control Metal-Insulator Transition Temperature of Vanadium Dioxide

Working with a metal oxide that shows promise for future generations of electronic devices, IBM and SLAC scientists have shown they can precisely control the temperature at which it flips from being an electrical conductor to an insulator – and thus functions as an electronic switch.

22 Oct 2013

Superconductor Technologies to Exhibit its Solutions at EPRI Superconductivity Conference

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI), a world leader in the development and production of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies, will exhibit its Conductus® superconducting wire at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Superconductivity Conference in Houston from Oct. 28th to 30th.

22 Oct 2013

First Observation of Topological Effects for Light in Two Dimensions

Topology -- theunderstanding of how things are connected -- remains abstract, even with the popular example of doughnuts and coffee cups. This concept, esoteric as it appears, is also neat because it is the basis for creating ultrastable quantum "playgrounds." In topological systems, certain quantum behaviors can be carefully probed and even harnessed for all kinds of practical applications—from metrology to electronics.

21 Oct 2013

SLAC Theorist Named Co-Winner of J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics

SLAC particle theorist Lance Dixon has been named co-winner of the 2014 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded each year by the American Physical Society "to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory." He'll join his colleagues and collaborators, Zvi Bern of UCLA and David Kosower of the French research institute CEA-Saclay, to accept the $10,000 award in Savannah, Ga., next April.

21 Oct 2013

Niels Bohr Institute Officially Admits its Participation in IceCube Neutrino Research Project

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration. IceCube is an enormous particle detector built into a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. IceCube detects neutrinos, which are coming from space or are created by cosmic rays in the atmosphere.

21 Oct 2013

New Insights into Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Swinburne University of Technology scientists are part of an international team that has used observations of super-dense stars, known as pulsars, to probe the Universe in a completely new way.

21 Oct 2013

Newly Discovered Asteroid Has One-in-63,000 Chance of Impacting Earth

Newly discovered asteroid 2013 TV135 made a close approach to Earth on Sept. 16, when it came within about 4.2 million miles (6.7 million kilometers). The asteroid is initially estimated to be about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in size and its orbit carries it as far out as about three quarters of the distance to Jupiter's orbit and as close to the sun as Earth's orbit.

19 Oct 2013

Over 1,200 Visitors Tour Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre

The Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre was featured as a location in Doors Open Waterloo Region on Saturday, September 21. This year’s Doors Open theme was modern architecture. More than 1,200 visitors toured the Lazaridis Centre to explore the one-of-a-kind facility that is home to the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN).

19 Oct 2013

Cassini Provides Images of Gauzy Rings and Dark Side of Saturn

The gauzy rings of Saturn and the dark side of the planet glow in newly released infrared images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

19 Oct 2013

Scientists Postulate Key Set of Principles to Understand Superconductivity

Years of experiments on various types of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors—materials that offer hope for energy-saving applications such as zero-loss electrical power lines—have turned up an amazing array of complex behaviors among the electrons that in some instances pair up to carry current with no resistance, and in others stop the flow of current in its tracks.

19 Oct 2013

Scientists Provide Proof for Heisenberg’s Error-Disturbance Relation

An international team of scientists has provided proof of a key feature of quantum physics – Heisenberg’s error-disturbance relation - more than 80 years after it was first suggested.

19 Oct 2013

Researchers Test Four Models of Black-Hole Growth Using Data from Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy’s got one. But here’s a real conundrum: how did they grow so big?

19 Oct 2013

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SSRL Scientist Sean Brennan Receives Annual Synchrotron Award

D-Wave Transfers Process Technology for Building Quantum Computing Microprocessors to Cypress Foundry

Detection of B-Modes Leads to Better Maps of Matter Across Universe

IBM and SLAC Scientists Precisely Control Metal-Insulator Transition Temperature of Vanadium Dioxide

Superconductor Technologies to Exhibit its Solutions at EPRI Superconductivity Conference

First Observation of Topological Effects for Light in Two Dimensions

SLAC Theorist Named Co-Winner of J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics

Niels Bohr Institute Officially Admits its Participation in IceCube Neutrino Research Project

New Insights into Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Newly Discovered Asteroid Has One-in-63,000 Chance of Impacting Earth

Over 1,200 Visitors Tour Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre

Cassini Provides Images of Gauzy Rings and Dark Side of Saturn

Scientists Postulate Key Set of Principles to Understand Superconductivity

Scientists Provide Proof for Heisenberg’s Error-Disturbance Relation

Researchers Test Four Models of Black-Hole Growth Using Data from Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

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