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Ferocious Star-Formation in Rare Galaxy

Astronomers have found a galaxy turning gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency, a rare phase of galaxy evolution that is the most extreme yet observed. The findings come from the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French Alps, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

24 Apr 2013

LightPath to Showcase Lenses to Collimate Quantum Cascade Lasers at SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing 2013

LightPath Technologies, Inc. ("LightPath", the "Company" or "we"), a global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of patented optical components and high-level assemblies, today announced it will exhibit at SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing, 2013's most important scientific conferences on optics, imaging, and sensing. The show takes place April 29-May 3 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD.

24 Apr 2013

Quantum Nature of Macroscopic Spin Universal to Collective Spin Excitations in Conductive Systems

An international team of scientists, including University of York physicist Dr Irene D’Amico, has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the quantum level.

24 Apr 2013

New Protocol Supports 'Noisy Network' Approach for Advancing Quantum Computers

Quantum physics promises faster computations but today's most advanced quantum computers operate with fewer than 20 quantum bits (qubits). To realise the technology's full potential will require much larger machines, and researchers are busy planning how to build them. A new protocol designed by researchers in Singapore and the UK lends support to a 'noisy network' approach. The work is published in Nature Communications.

24 Apr 2013

New Method to Monitor Asteroid Collisions in Interplanetary Space

Many collisions occur between asteroids and other objects in our solar system, but scientists are not always able to detect or track these impacts from Earth. The "rogue debris" created by such collisions can sometimes catch us by surprise.

23 Apr 2013

Physicists Find Possible Hints of Dark Matter

Physicists operating an underground experiment in Minnesota reported last week that they have found possible hints of dark matter. The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment detected three events with the characteristics expected of dark matter, Kevin McCarthy, a PhD student in physics at MIT, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver.

23 Apr 2013

Two Tiny Silica Grains from Core-Collapse Supernova Discovered in Primitive Meteorites

It's a bit like learning the secrets of the family that lived in your house in the 1800s by examining dust particles they left behind in cracks in the floorboards.

23 Apr 2013

Quantum Materials to Relocate Headquarters to Greater Austin Area in Texas

Quantum Materials Corporation has chosen the greater Austin area in Texas to relocate headquarters and to establish the company's R&D labs. After considering attractive proposals from Texas, North Carolina and Florida, Quantum Materials Corp. (QMC) has decided that Austin's "Silicon Hills" offers superior business advantages to emerging companies in both the nanotech and biotech fields.

23 Apr 2013

Radiation Emitted Near Black Holes May Help Measure Distances of Billions of Light Years

A few years ago, researchers revealed that the universe is expanding at a much faster rate than originally believed — a discovery that earned a Nobel Prize in 2011. But measuring the rate of this acceleration over large distances is still challenging and problematic, says Prof. Hagai Netzer of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy.

23 Apr 2013

Distant Planetary System Hosts Super-Earth-Sized Planets in Habitable Zone

An international team of scientists has discovered a planetary system 1,200 light-years away that hosts two super-Earth-sized planets in its “habitable zone” — a region in which conditions are favorable for a planet’s surface to hold liquid water, and potentially life.

22 Apr 2013

New Hubble Image Shows Infrared View of Horsehead Nebula

This year marks the 23rd year of observing for the Hubble Space Telescope. Alongside cutting-edge science, the orbiting observatory has produced countless stunning astronomical images. Some of the most striking and beautiful subjects of Hubble's images have been nebulae -- vast interstellar clouds of gas and dust.

22 Apr 2013

Global Particle Physics Photowalk Winners Announced

A stark black-and-white photo of an access tunnel 1,500 meters underground at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics' Gran Sasso National Laboratory and a colorful close-up of a detector at INFN's Frascati National Laboratory that wouldn't be out of place in a building by Antoni Gaudi have won the top prizes in the second Global Particle Physics Photowalk.

20 Apr 2013

Iconic Horsehead Nebula Photographed in a New, Infrared Light

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

20 Apr 2013

Novel Synthetic Compound Mimics Complex Quantum Dynamics Observed in Photosynthesis

University of Chicago researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundamentally new routes to creating solar-energy technologies. Engineering quantum effects into synthetic light-harvesting devices is not only possible, but also easier than anyone expected, the researchers report in the April 19 edition of Science.

20 Apr 2013

UW Astronomer Discovers Most Earth-Like Planet outside the Solar System

A University of Washington astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earthlike planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope.

19 Apr 2013

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Ferocious Star-Formation in Rare Galaxy

LightPath to Showcase Lenses to Collimate Quantum Cascade Lasers at SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing 2013

Quantum Nature of Macroscopic Spin Universal to Collective Spin Excitations in Conductive Systems

New Protocol Supports 'Noisy Network' Approach for Advancing Quantum Computers

New Method to Monitor Asteroid Collisions in Interplanetary Space

Physicists Find Possible Hints of Dark Matter

Two Tiny Silica Grains from Core-Collapse Supernova Discovered in Primitive Meteorites

Quantum Materials to Relocate Headquarters to Greater Austin Area in Texas

Radiation Emitted Near Black Holes May Help Measure Distances of Billions of Light Years

Distant Planetary System Hosts Super-Earth-Sized Planets in Habitable Zone

New Hubble Image Shows Infrared View of Horsehead Nebula

Global Particle Physics Photowalk Winners Announced

Iconic Horsehead Nebula Photographed in a New, Infrared Light

Novel Synthetic Compound Mimics Complex Quantum Dynamics Observed in Photosynthesis

UW Astronomer Discovers Most Earth-Like Planet outside the Solar System

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