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Open Call for Artists to Apply for Third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN

CERN and Ars Electronica today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN3. The winner will receive a fully funded residency at CERN and Ars Electronica to create new dimensions in their artistic practice by encounters with the world of science. This is the third year of the collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica.

3 Jun 2013

New Approach to Make Macroscopic Mechanical Resonators Exhibit Quantum Mechanical Behavior

EPFL researchers find a new method for the preparation of non-classical states of a mechanical oscillator.

1 Jun 2013

Connections Between Flat Space-Time, Negatively Curved Space-Time and Holography

Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe.

1 Jun 2013

Shaw Prize Foundation Honors Astronomers Hawley and Balbus

University of Virginia astronomer John Hawley and former U.Va. astronomer Steven Balbus, now at the University of Oxford, have been named co-winners of the 2013 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. The prize is considered Asia’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize and is awarded in some categories – like astronomy – that the Nobel does not specifically include.

31 May 2013

Quantum Computing Company Among Dutch Tech Startups in NYC Boot Camp

The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – in collaboration with WeWork – today announced a delegation of the Netherlands’ most promising tech startups will visit New York City from June 3-6 to experience the booming NYC tech scene.

31 May 2013

Quantum Dots Boost Ability of Bulk Semiconductors to Convert Heat into Power

High-performance thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat to electricity could one day be a source of more sustainable power. But they need to be a lot more efficient before they could be effective on a broad scale in places like power plants or military bases, researchers say.

31 May 2013

CERN Council Adopts Update to European Strategy for Particle Physics at Special Meeting

At a special meeting hosted by the European Commission in Brussels today, the CERN Council1 formally adopted an update to the European strategy for particle physics. Since the original European strategy was put in place in 2006, particle physics has made considerable progress in elucidating the laws of nature at the most fundamental level.

31 May 2013

Swinburne Offered Federal Grant to Lead Design of Square Kilometre Array’s Pulsar Signal Processor

Swinburne University of Technology has been offered a $638,000 grant from the Federal Government to lead the design of astronomical instrumentation for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.

31 May 2013

McGill Researchers Discover New Kind of Glitch in the Cosmos

The physics behind some of the most extraordinary stellar objects in the Universe just became even more puzzling.

30 May 2013

Spinning Magnetar Suddenly Slows Down

Astronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use to understand these extremely dense objects.

30 May 2013

Sodium Levels Predict How Stars End Their Lives

The way in which stars evolve and end their lives was for many years considered to be well understood. Detailed computer models predicted that stars of a similar mass to the Sun would have a period towards the ends of their lives — called the asymptotic giant branch, or AGB — when they undergo a final burst of nuclear burning and puff off a lot of their mass in the form of gas and dust.

30 May 2013

Crucial Ingredient of High-Temperature Superconductivity Found in Different Class of Materials

Physicists at the University of Arkansas have collaborated with scientists in the United States and Asia to discover that a crucial ingredient of high-temperature superconductivity could be found in an entirely different class of materials.

30 May 2013

Neutron Star Rapidly Drops Speed of Rotation

One of the densest objects in the universe, a neutron star about 10,000 light years from Earth, has been discovered suddenly putting the brakes on its spinning speed. The event is a mystery that holds important clues for understanding how matter reacts when it is squeezed more tightly than the density of an atomic nucleus -- a state that no laboratory on Earth has achieved.

30 May 2013

Researchers Identify Threshold at Which Entanglement Occurs in Large Quantum Systems

Entanglement is a property in quantum mechanics that seemed so unbelievable and so lacking in detail that, 66 years ago this spring, Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.”

30 May 2013

Physicists Calculate Failure Probability of Quantum Encryption Schemes

Quantum communication systems offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Unlike classical encryption, which is used to send secure data over networks today and whose security depends on the difficulty of solving mathematical problems like the factoring of large numbers, most quantum encryption schemes keep the encryption key separate from the data.

29 May 2013

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Open Call for Artists to Apply for Third Prix Ars Electronica Collide @ CERN

New Approach to Make Macroscopic Mechanical Resonators Exhibit Quantum Mechanical Behavior

Connections Between Flat Space-Time, Negatively Curved Space-Time and Holography

Shaw Prize Foundation Honors Astronomers Hawley and Balbus

Quantum Computing Company Among Dutch Tech Startups in NYC Boot Camp

Quantum Dots Boost Ability of Bulk Semiconductors to Convert Heat into Power

CERN Council Adopts Update to European Strategy for Particle Physics at Special Meeting

Swinburne Offered Federal Grant to Lead Design of Square Kilometre Array’s Pulsar Signal Processor

McGill Researchers Discover New Kind of Glitch in the Cosmos

Spinning Magnetar Suddenly Slows Down

Sodium Levels Predict How Stars End Their Lives

Crucial Ingredient of High-Temperature Superconductivity Found in Different Class of Materials

Neutron Star Rapidly Drops Speed of Rotation

Researchers Identify Threshold at Which Entanglement Occurs in Large Quantum Systems

Physicists Calculate Failure Probability of Quantum Encryption Schemes

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