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Strong Suppression of Quantum Noise May Improve Performance of Interferometers

Researchers from Vienna University of Technology have built a new interferometer for trapped, ultracold atomic gases. By strongly suppressing the quantum noise, which ultimately limits the performance of interferometers, they were able to curb the effect of atomic interactions, and increase the interrogation time of their interferometer. This should yield more precise measurements.

28 Jun 2013

Vast Outlying Orbital Space Around Many Stars Largely Devoid of Gas-Giant Planets

Gemini Observatory’s Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of planetary formation could be significant.

28 Jun 2013

Voyager 1 Spacecraft Closer to Reach Interstellar Space

Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.

28 Jun 2013

CU-Boulder Joins Ambitious Effort to Map the Celestial Sky in Three Dimensions

The University of Colorado Boulder has become a full institutional member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV, an ambitious effort by some of the world’s top astronomers to map the celestial sky in three dimensions to learn more about the structure and evolution of the universe.

27 Jun 2013

Planets Can Develop in Crowded Clusters Jam-Packed With Stars

All stars begin their lives in groups. Most stars, including our Sun, are born in small, benign groups that quickly fall apart. Others form in huge, dense swarms that survive for billions of years as stellar clusters. Within such rich and dense clusters, stars jostle for room with thousands of neighbors while strong radiation and harsh stellar winds scour interstellar space, stripping planet-forming materials from nearby stars.

27 Jun 2013

Radio Telescope Detects Raw Material for Making the First Stars in Galaxies

The telescope is CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array telescope near Narrabri, NSW. "It one of very few telescopes in the world that can do such difficult work, because it is both extremely sensitive and can receive radio waves of the right wavelengths," says CSIRO astronomer Professor Ron Ekers.

27 Jun 2013

Sound Sculptor to Explore World’s Largest Particle Accelerator

The second winner of Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN, American sound sculptor, Bill Fontana2, begins his arts residency at CERN3 on 4 July 2013. Matching a great artist with a great scientist, Bill Fontana will start working with theorist Subodh Patil, his science inspiration partner during his time at CERN.

27 Jun 2013

Seven Worlds Orbit Nearby Star

An international team of astronomers has found that a nearby star previously thought to host two or three planets is in fact orbited by six or seven worlds, including an unprecedented three to five “super-Earths” in its habitable zone, where conditions could be right for life.

26 Jun 2013

Super-Earths Discovered in Gliese 667C Star’s Habitable Zone

A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking three of these planets are super-Earths lying in the zone around the star where liquid water could exist, making them possible candidates for the presence of life. This is the first system found with a fully packed habitable zone.

26 Jun 2013

New Report on Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display (QLED): Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, Nanotechnology, 2013 to 2019" to their offering.

26 Jun 2013

New Algorithm Proposed for Quantum Computing

Tom Wong, a graduate student in physics and David Meyer, professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, have proposed a new algorithm for quantum computing, that will speed a particular type of problem. But swifter calculations would come at the cost of greater physical resources devoted to precise timekeeping, their analysis has determined.

25 Jun 2013

IBM's World Community Grid Enables Extensive Investigation of Quantum Chemicals

The search for more versatile and less expensive materials for solar energy received a boost today as Harvard launched a free database that catalogues the suitability of 2.3 million organic, carbon compounds for converting sunlight into electricity.

25 Jun 2013

Researchers Achieve Quantum Tunneling at Room Temperature

For decades, electronic devices have been getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller. It’s now possible—even routine—to place millions of transistors on a single silicon chip.

24 Jun 2013

Quantum Character of Light Transport Observed in Photosynthesis

Photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and some bacteria can whisk away 95 percent of the sunlight they absorb in less than a couple of trillionths of a second to drive the metabolic reactions that provide them with energy.

24 Jun 2013

Physicists Build Tabletop Particle Accelerator

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have built a tabletop particle accelerator that can generate energies and speeds previously reached only by major facilities that are hundreds of meters long and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build.

21 Jun 2013

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Strong Suppression of Quantum Noise May Improve Performance of Interferometers

Vast Outlying Orbital Space Around Many Stars Largely Devoid of Gas-Giant Planets

Voyager 1 Spacecraft Closer to Reach Interstellar Space

CU-Boulder Joins Ambitious Effort to Map the Celestial Sky in Three Dimensions

Planets Can Develop in Crowded Clusters Jam-Packed With Stars

Radio Telescope Detects Raw Material for Making the First Stars in Galaxies

Sound Sculptor to Explore World’s Largest Particle Accelerator

Seven Worlds Orbit Nearby Star

Super-Earths Discovered in Gliese 667C Star’s Habitable Zone

New Report on Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display Market

New Algorithm Proposed for Quantum Computing

IBM's World Community Grid Enables Extensive Investigation of Quantum Chemicals

Researchers Achieve Quantum Tunneling at Room Temperature

Quantum Character of Light Transport Observed in Photosynthesis

Physicists Build Tabletop Particle Accelerator

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