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Quantum Dots Self-Assemble at Optimal Locations in Nanowires

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other labs have demonstrated a process whereby quantum dots can self-assemble at optimal locations in nanowires, a breakthrough that could improve solar cells, quantum computing, and lighting devices.

17 Apr 2013

Short Large Amplitude Magnetic Structures May Help Answer Acceleration of Charged Particles Back out into Space

As Earth moves around the sun, it travels surrounded by a giant bubble created by its own magnetic fields, called the magnetosphere. As the magnetosphere plows through space, it sets up a standing bow wave or bow shock, much like that in front of a moving ship.

17 Apr 2013

Long-Lived Cosmic Explosions Create Powerful Blasts of High Energy Gamma-Rays

A team led by the University of Warwick has pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant star.

17 Apr 2013

TEDMEDLive Bristol to Discuss Role of Quantum Computing in Drug Development

Could the quantum computing revolution transform drug development, are there new approaches for improving sleep and do people benefit from being diagnosed with early-stage dementia? These are some of the questions that will be discussed at the first TEDMEDLive Bristol event at the MShed on Thursday [18 April].

17 Apr 2013

SOFIA Helps Capture Detailed Mid-Infrared Images of Massive Star Condensing within Dense Cocoon of Dust and Gas

Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of dust and gas.

17 Apr 2013

Inaugural TEDxCERN Event to Take Place in May 2013

The inaugural TEDxCERN event will take place on 3 May 2013, under the theme ‘Multiplying Dimensions’, at the Globe of Science and Innovation with a Live Webcast at the CERN1 Main Auditorium and at http://tedxcern.ch homepage.

17 Apr 2013

IQOQI Researchers Close Local Realistic Loophole in Photonic Systems of Quantum Entanglement

In everyday life it is only natural that the properties of objects exist independent of being observed or not. The quantum world on the other hand is ruled by other laws: the property of a particle may be defined not until the instant it is being measured, and two entangled particles seem to be connected in a non-local way over large distances.

16 Apr 2013

Photon Experiment Provides Complete Experimental Proof on Quantum World’s Conflict with Everyday Experience

A team led by the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger has now carried out an experiment with photons, in which they have closed an important loophole. The researchers have thus provided the most complete experimental proof that the quantum world is in conflict with our everyday experience. The results of this study appear this week in the renowned journal Nature (Advance Online Publication/AOP).

16 Apr 2013

Dark Matter Detected Onboard the International Space Station

In science fiction, finding antimatter on board your spaceship is not good news. Usually, it means you're moments away from an explosion.

16 Apr 2013

UChicago Cosmologist to Present Ryerson Lecture Titled Quarks and the Cosmos

Pioneering University of Chicago cosmologist Michael S. Turner will present the annual Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture, titled “Quarks and the Cosmos,” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 17. The free public lecture will take place in the Max Palevsky Cinema of Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.

12 Apr 2013

Honeywell Sponsors Nobel Laureate’s Lecture on Quantum Mechanics to Indian Engineering Students

Honeywell yesterday introduced Professor David Gross , Nobel laureate in Physics, to the students and faculty of College of Engineering, Pune, India, as part of its global Honeywell Initiative for Science & Engineering (HISE).

12 Apr 2013

UChicago Spintronics Researcher Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

David D. Awschalom is a newly elected member of the European Academy of Sciences. The Academy, which elects relatively few non-European scientists, bases its selections on pioneering new research fields that have substantial scientific impact.

12 Apr 2013

Researchers Determine Time Needed for Quantum Information to Propagate across Bose-Einstein Condensates

Quantum computers promise to perform certain types of operations much more quickly than conventional digital computers. But many challenges must be addressed before these ultra-fast machines become available, among them, the loss of order in the systems – a problem known as quantum decoherence – which worsens as the number of bits in a quantum computer increases.

12 Apr 2013

Director General of CERN to Give a BSA Distinguished Lecture at Brookhaven Lab

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director general at CERN—the European Organization for Nuclear Research—will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture, titled "Research at CERN—From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles," at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, May 1, at 5:30 p.m. in Berkner Hall.

11 Apr 2013

Researchers Measure Superconductive Surface States in Topological Insulators

Topological insulators (TIs) are an exciting new type of material that on their surface carry electric current, but within their bulk, act as insulators. Since the discovery of TIs about a decade ago, their unique characteristics (which point to potential applications in quantum computing) have been explored theoretically, and in the last five years, experimentally.

11 Apr 2013

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Quantum Dots Self-Assemble at Optimal Locations in Nanowires

Short Large Amplitude Magnetic Structures May Help Answer Acceleration of Charged Particles Back out into Space

Long-Lived Cosmic Explosions Create Powerful Blasts of High Energy Gamma-Rays

TEDMEDLive Bristol to Discuss Role of Quantum Computing in Drug Development

SOFIA Helps Capture Detailed Mid-Infrared Images of Massive Star Condensing within Dense Cocoon of Dust and Gas

Inaugural TEDxCERN Event to Take Place in May 2013

IQOQI Researchers Close Local Realistic Loophole in Photonic Systems of Quantum Entanglement

Photon Experiment Provides Complete Experimental Proof on Quantum World’s Conflict with Everyday Experience

Dark Matter Detected Onboard the International Space Station

UChicago Cosmologist to Present Ryerson Lecture Titled Quarks and the Cosmos

Honeywell Sponsors Nobel Laureate’s Lecture on Quantum Mechanics to Indian Engineering Students

UChicago Spintronics Researcher Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

Researchers Determine Time Needed for Quantum Information to Propagate across Bose-Einstein Condensates

Director General of CERN to Give a BSA Distinguished Lecture at Brookhaven Lab

Researchers Measure Superconductive Surface States in Topological Insulators

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